Merchants lamented that underpopulation precluded genuine development of abundant resources, leaving the colonies with ' treasures that we cannot cultivate due to the absence of labour'.
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One may find nothing of wor th or may discover arcane treasures.
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Communities own commons, museums, and other natural and man-made treasures thought to be in the community's interest.
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In contrast to cash, stock socialized assets, measuring their ultimate worth not in treasures in heaven but in people on earth.
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Despite a steady accretion to his discography over the past few years, there are still huge tracts of terrain unexplored and many treasures undoubtedly await discovery.
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The book's painstaking historical and etymological approach yields other treasures.
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Costs are minimized in a communal system to preserve resources for other tasks within healthcare as well as to preserve resources for other socially treasured goods.
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Although the terms are paradoxical, mistakes can be viewed as "gems" and "treasures" 80 because much can be learned from them for the betterment of future patients.
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Natural life, cultural treasures, human bodies - all things are potential objects for consumption, dishes on a menu, otherness to be incorporated and spat out as sameness.
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Rural life was increasingly seen as something to be respected and recorded: to be understood, even treasured, in all its richness without being condemned or disparaged.
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The actor image lives on in quotidian domestic contexts: on the mantelpiece, in albums or dusty shoeboxes, treasured in family papers or dispatched to junk shops.
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They are called cultural treasures.
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Who will want to look at a house denuded of all its treasures and, eventually, of its original owners?
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All treasures have to be protected against burglars.
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The natural environment is one of our greatest treasures, and yet we do not do enough to protect it.
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architectural treasure
That would give people more opportunity to look at what is a national and not a personalarchitecturaltreasure.
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art treasures
The interest to be weighed in the balance against that is the safety of art treasures.
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artistic treasure
We have immense artistic treasures and even greater artistic potential.
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