Foreign students represent a valuable resource, especially when public colleges and universities face budget cuts by states.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

"When the feces is sanitized, all the pathogens are inactivated and killed, it is a valuable fertilizer.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

But it was the Spanish explorer Hernando Cortes who understood that chocolate could be a valuable investment.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

Two Emerging Explorers are working to turn waste into a valuable resource.

VOA: special.2011.05.25

And alfalfa can be a valuable food source for animals.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

But in return,Heller's surfing adventure helped him learn a valuable lesson about catching the perfect wave in life.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

A 2004 peace accord restored order in Casamance and led to hopes that the region might once again become a valuable tourist destination.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

It seems Pandora is the only place in the galaxy with deposits of a valuable new energy source worth untold millions back on Earth.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

The success of the business, Cruz says,has taught her a valuable lesson in life.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

"We do know that your friend, Senator George Mitchell, who,of course, played such a valuable role in Northern Ireland, has applied himself diligently and with great attention to detail."

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

As the last speakers of a language die off, the valuable information contained within a language also disappears.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

D.C.United won the M.L.S.Cup, the league championship, on the strength of a Most Valuable Player performance by Olsen.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

It had a factory that made guns for the army and a supply center of valuable military equipment.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

A patent forbids others from copying an invention and makes the invention valuable in the world of business.

VOA: special.2009.05.13