they are the most valuable of commodities -- and the most salable, for their demand far exceeds supply.

The rehearsal through literature of emotional life under controlled conditions may be a most valuable human experience.

In archaeology, for example, the contributions of Frederick Haverfield and Reginald Smith to the various volumes of the Victoria County Histories raised the discipline from the status of an antiquarian pastime to that of the most valuable single tool of the early English historian.

Water interest is one of the most valuable factors you can find for a recreation site.

Teachers who have been upward mobile probably see education as most valuable for their students if it serves students as it has served them ; ;

Along this avenue which saw marching soldiers from the War Between the States returning in 1865 is the National Archives building where hundreds of thousands of this country's most valuable records are kept.

Moritz doesn't even have a nose guard or hip pads but he's one of the most valuable members of the Longhorn team that will be heavily favored Saturday over Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl.

The most valuable player award was split three ways, among Glen Mankowski, Gordon Hartweger and Tom Kieffer.

In a hotly contested auction, such as for the important attribute of warfare, the most valuable skill is the ability to force one's opponents to back down.

The American Thomas Jefferson was a representative agrarian who built Jeffersonian Democracy around the notion that farmers are “ the most valuable citizens ” and the truest republicans.

Up until the 18th century, amethyst was included in the cardinal, or most valuable, gemstones ( along with diamond, sapphire, ruby, and emerald ).

After Achilles, Ajax is the most valuable warrior in Agamemnon's army ( along with Diomedes ), though he is not as cunning as Nestor, Diomedes, Idomeneus, or Odysseus, he is much more powerful and just as intelligent.

While owning steel works, Carnegie had purchased at low cost the most valuable of the iron ore fields around Lake Superior.

The topographical results of his explorations were published in Paris between 1860 and 1873 in Geodesie d ' Ethiopie, full of the most valuable information and illustrated by ten maps.

It contains a mass of information as to the life and customs of the early Arabs, and is the most valuable authority we have for their pre-Islamic and early Islamic days.

The BBWAA does not offer a clear-cut definition of what " most valuable " means, instead leaving the judgement to the individual voters.

The most valuable memorabilia item relating to Ruth was a 1920-era Yankees flannel jersey which sold in May 2012 for $ 4. 4 million, making it the most valuable piece of sports memorabilia ever sold at public auction.

In Chinese manuscripts, gold, camphor, tortoise shells, hornbill ivory, rhinoceros horn, crane crest, beeswax, lakawood ( a scented heartwood and root wood of a thick liana, Dalbergia parviflora ), dragon's blood, rattan, edible bird's nests and various spices were among the most valuable items from Borneo.

The most valuable American comics have combined rarity and quality with the first appearances of popular and enduring characters.

Based on Interbrand's best global brand 2011, Coca-Cola was the world's most valuable brand.

The Challenger returned from Shanghai with " the most valuable cargo of tea and silk ever to be laden in one bottom ".

most modern adapters totally accept the world of a book, squeeze it dry of life, and add only one contribution of their own: stage technique.

** This German publication is both one of the most comprehensive general introductions to the life and works of the philosopher and physician Avicenna ( Ibn Sīnā, d. 1037 ) and an extensive and careful survey of his contribution to the history of science.

The lives of numerous abbots make up a significant contribution to Christian hagiography, one of the most well-known being the Life of St. Benedict of Nursia by St. Gregory the Great.

But perhaps his most important contribution was the importance he gave to the Portuguese navy.

This contribution of the neural crest to the great artery smooth muscle is unusual as most smooth muscle is derived from mesoderm.

ARY is a diversified group with interests in several sectors, though it is most famous for its contribution to Pakistani television.

It is said that 99 out of 100 chess masters have read Mein System ; consequently, most consider it to be Nimzowitsch's greatest contribution to chess.

His two major works, Enquiry into Plants and On the Causes of Plants constitute the most important contribution to botanical science during antiquity and the Middle Ages, and held that position for some seventeen centuries after they were written.

His most important contribution to economic thinking was " Say's law ", which was interpreted by classical economists that there could be no overproduction in a market, and that there would always be a balance between supply and demand.

Perhaps CORAL's most significant contribution to computing was the enforcement of quality control in commercial compilers.

His most significant military contribution was the development of the Limes Germanicus, which encompassed a vast network of roads, forts and watchtowers constructed along the Rhine river to defend the Empire.

He also wanted his friars to reach excellence in their preaching, and this was his most lasting contribution to the Order.

Recognizing the reality of scarcity and then figuring out how to organize society for the most efficient use of resources has been described as the " essence of economics ", where the subject " makes its unique contribution.

No doubt Galo Plaza's most important contribution to Ecuadorian political culture was his commitment to the principles and practices of democracy.

The most famous contribution of this manuscript was a novel proof that there is no quintic formula-that is, fifth and higher degree equations that are not solvable by radicals.

Galois ' most significant contribution to mathematics by far is his development of Galois theory.

Eiffel's most important contribution to software engineering is design by contract ( DbC ), in which assertions, preconditions, postconditions, and class invariants are employed to help ensure program correctness without sacrificing efficiency.

Perhaps Piaget's most enduring contribution is his insight that people actively construct their understanding through a self-regulatory process.

As the final against the Germans approached, the media learnt of Greaves ' return to fitness and, while appreciating Hurst's contribution, started to call for the return of England's most prolific centre forward.

As Hurst collected the pass, BBC commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme immortalised his own contribution to the day with one of the most famous pieces of football commentary ever:

" Austrian School economist Hans-Hermann Hoppe says that " the 1849 article " The Production of Security " is probably the single most important contribution to the modern theory of anarcho-capitalism.

Jacobs ' most significant contribution would be his redrawing of the costumes and backgrounds in the revised edition of King Ottokar's Sceptre which gave it a Balkan feel-in the original, the castle guards had been dressed as British Beefeaters.

" Woodcock finds that " The most ambitious contribution to literary anarchism during the 1890s was undoubtedly Oscar Wilde The Soul of Man under Socialism " and finds that it is influenced mainly by the thought of William Godwin.

Despite his revolutionary rhetoric, Goebbels ’ most important contribution to the Nazi cause between 1930 and 1933 was as the organizer of successive election campaigns: The Reichstag elections of September 1930, July and November 1932 and March 1933, and Hitler ’ s presidential campaign of March – April 1932.

Most of what was controversial in the Virginia Plan was removed, and most of the rest had been commonly accepted as necessary for a functional government ( state or national ) for decades ; thus, Madison's contribution was more qualitative.