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 ".

Over a temperature range from 25 to 200 Af and at pressures up to 250 atm, an overload of 300 psi, applied for a period of one day, results in an uncertainty in the pressure of, at most, one millimeter of mercury.

For the most part, this discussion will be confined to results obtained since the introduction of the reference standard.

However, the regionally differentiated results, which appear below in tables, are interesting evidence of the problems of developing self-government under even the most favorable circumstances.

A third aspect, and probably the one open to most controversy, is the results of the election.

Despite these facts, most mathematicians accept the axiom of choice as a valid principle for proving new results in mathematics.

On the batting-friendly wickets that prevailed in the late 1930s, most Tests up to the Second World War still gave results.

A review of the methods used in trials of antipsychotics, despite stating that the overall quality is " rather good ," reported issues with the selection of participants ( including that in schizophrenia trials up to 90 % of people who are generally suitable do not meet the elaborate inclusion and exclusion criteria, and that negative symptoms have not been properly assessed despite companies marketing the newer antipsychotics for these ); issues with the design of trials ( including pharmaceutical company funding of most of them, and inadequate experimental " blinding " so that trial participants could sometimes tell whether they were on placebo or not ); and issues with the assessment of outcomes ( including the use of a minimal reduction in scores to show " response ," lack of assessment of quality of life or recovery, a high rate of discontinuation, selective highlighting of favorable results in the abstracts of publications, and poor reporting of side-effects ).

In cases where the direction of the air motion is always the same, as in the ventilating shafts of mines and buildings for instance, wind vanes, known as air meters are employed, and give most satisfactory results.

The electoral results of National Alliance in the 10 most populated Regions of Italy are shown in the table below.

Indeed the urban areas of the country suffering heavily from unemployment, which might have been expected to respond the most to the radical economic policies of the Liberals, instead gave the party its worst results.

All these methods produce essentially similar results, even though most genetic variation has no influence over external morphology.

One of the most common objections to rule-consequentialism is that it is incoherent, because it is based on the consequentialist principle that what we should be concerned with is maximizing the good, but then it tells us not to act to maximize the good, but to follow rules ( even in cases where we know that breaking the rule could produce better results ).

According to utilitarianism, a good action is one that results in an increase in pleasure, and the best action is one that results in the most pleasure for the greatest number.

Assuming a fixed sample size, the technique gives more accurate results when most of the variation in the population is within the groups, not between them.

The Yoneda lemma is one of the most famous basic results of category theory ; it describes representable functors in functor categories.

Sometimes the results of an election are such that the coalitions which are mathematically most probable are ideologically infeasible, such as in Flanders or Northern Ireland.

When we make one solvent immobile ( by adsorption on a solid support matrix ) and another mobile it results in most common applications of chromatography.

In most cases, the non-penalized team will have the option of declining the penalty ; in which case the results of the previous play stand as if the penalty had not been called.

This narrowness of definition has caused some debate over the years, and its result, the exclusion of Hebridean sites from most major syntheses, can be seen as a shortcoming which, due to superficial typologies, results in the failure to unite these sites, whose inhabitants shared the common habit of living on water.

This results in the most common side-effects of chemotherapy: myelosuppression ( decreased production of blood cells, hence also immunosuppression ), mucositis ( inflammation of the lining of the digestive tract ), and alopecia ( hair loss ).

The most observed geometries are listed below, but there are many cases that deviate from a regular geometry, e. g. due to the use of ligands of different types ( which results in irregular bond lengths ; the coordination atoms do not follow a points-on-a-sphere pattern ), due to the size of ligands, or due to electronic effects ( see, e. g., Jahn-Teller distortion ):

Insolvency may result in a form of corporate failure, when creditors force the liquidation and dissolution of the corporation under court order, but it most often results in a restructuring of corporate holdings.

The first option is less logical, but results in shorter marks for most English language libraries.