Mr Sargeant put it more simply - "I'm not precious about who does what".
These are small points in the face of a meal that manages to be both refined and genial, earnest but not precious.
Conversely, competitor Samsung is not so precious about its brand and has not only partnered in India but adopted a policy of aggressive localization in China.
Since coins have not contained precious metals for about the past 50 years, it would be silly to try munching on them nowadays.
The decline in commodity ETPs assets would have been worse if not for the precious-metals sector.
This prompted a rally not only in precious metals but other commodities as well, Melek added.
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He outlined the plan: we would be spending many hours on the bus, during which he would deliver lectures on history and culture, so as not to waste precious minutes at the sights, when we could be taking photographs.
The vibe is sophisticated but not at all precious, consistent with that of the resort itself. (ESPA is open to Acqualina residents, guests and nonguests alike, but you'll never notice the foot traffic.) It's Miami all grown up, but not grown old.
My father was out fire watching and I well remember my mother and I making a dive for the Anderson shelter, mother clutching the large brown handbag containing birth certificates, insurance policies, bank books, identity cards etc - not forgetting our precious ration books.
Senators are encouraged not to spend precious time worrying about an accord that the United States Navy strenuously supports, the Bush administration wants promptly ratified, various mining and energy interests and environmental groups (however implausibly) agree is desirable and the bipartisan Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved a couple of years ago.
For the solo business person, an example would be a chiropractor adjusting the vertebrae of a web designer, a social media expert and a content provider (like yours truly) on an ongoing basis to handle all of his or her online marketing efforts, freeing up time to do what he or she does best while not putting out precious cash to receive these services.
There are only a certain number of Adagios left in him, and he will not recklessly spend this precious currency.
They have no fear at all of ruling any part of the world, but they will not give up their precious books.
Cadbury said it was "not seeking to be precious about the colour purple" but was protecting its trademark from other chocolate firms.
Commodity investors were also not immune, as precious metals reversed course, and many of the commodity indices also took a beating last week.
One wildly successful example is Gemvara where Matt Lauzon realized he did not need to keep precious stones in inventory but, instead, to show extremely realistic and tantalizing gem settings, with the software support that enables customers to design their jewelry.
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"He's a wonderful collaborator, he's very generous and very open and was very interested in learning what the difference between a book and a movie was in terms of what the style would be, and not in the slightest precious about preserving stuff from the book, " Rudin said.
The reason why I get so passionate about this subject and about cruelty in general whether it be to an animal or person is that life is short and precious, not just for us but for animals also, I just cant understand why people could take another living things life for fun.
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Further, safe-haven demand for all of the precious metals has not yet been as strong as in 2011, he added.
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Larry Scott, head of Scotia Mocatta in Toronto, said he could not discuss the location of precious metals held by the company.
But the precious metal is not just underground, it's also in the "tailings" - heaps of grey-white residue left behind by old mining activity.
Flyovers are congested with cars parked two or three abreast as residents try to ensure their precious vehicles are not damaged or swept away by the flooding that threatens central Bangkok.
Janet Paraskeva, the Law Society's chief executive, welcomes the prospect of outside investment and even concedes that lawyers' precious professionalism does not mean they must pretend not to be running businesses.
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"There needs to be a radical rethink in society to revalue childhood and protect it as a precious time - not time to put pressure on children to grow up far too fast, " said Ms Freegard.
When Neil Armstrong first stepped on the Moon in 1969, it was part of a "flags and footprints" strategy to beat the Soviets, a triumph of imagination and innovation, not an attempt to extract precious metals.
On the other hand, for those investors that do not have an allocation to precious metals in their portfolios at present, this pullback, once complete, may present an attractive entry point for a longer term investment timeframe.
Not only has he done precious little of that, but his answer to the euro crisis has been to lurch in the opposite direction: new levies on the rich, scrapping ceilings on personal taxes, abolishing employers' tax breaks for overtime.
In the event, Winters' vocal unhappiness at the governance of the CIO, that it was a discreet trading operation answerable only to Dimon, and whose deployment of the bank's precious capital could not be scrutinised by other senior executives, was one of the reasons he was pushed out of the bank in the summer of 2009.
Nevertheless, time remains your most precious resource, and not (say) money or other physical things.
People reckon they have had precious little thanks and not much return for this effort.
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