"Usain Bolt is a national treasure, " Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding told BBC Sport.
Many Indians have long harboured legitimate fears about the well-being of a fragile national treasure.
Luckily, in France, heritage is considered a national treasure, and various associations exist to protect endangered savoir-faire.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described him as a "national treasure and global ambassador of India's cultural heritage".
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They see fossil fuel wealth as their birthright, as a national treasure on which they can build a future.
The Danish media immediately attacked him as "a heartless capitalist" (strong words in socialist Denmark) for selling a national treasure.
The final nominees ranged from Erich von Stroheim's 1924 silent film Greed to the 2004 summer popcorn flick National Treasure.
The restored Cold War bomber, described as a "national treasure", receives no government funding and was restored at Bruntingthrope in Leicestershire.
Novelist Nadine Gordimer, who calls Mahlasela a "national treasure, " took an interest in him at an early age and arranged guitar lessons.
For those interested in photography and movies, it is a national treasure.
The tragedy occurred during the park's busiest month, when 750, 000 visitors enjoy the verdant national treasure that is the size of Rhode Island.
That's how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure -- our forests and waterways, our crop lands and snow-capped peaks.
Regarded as a national treasure in Australia, Mr Winton is skilful at conveying not only the thrill of surfing, but also its terrors.
In this fashion, working more like a team of accountants than the devisers of a national treasure, the translators painstakingly put the new text together.
You measure that risk in national treasure, lives, and expended dollars.
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Exchange rates were fixed and were defended like a national treasure.
The Tory former chancellor Lord Howe of Aberavon added: "It is well known that the Ordnance Survey is a world-class national mapping organisation and national treasure".
But it, too, has its critics who say that the exploration methods are harmful and that more of the national treasure should be invested in sustainable energy.
The multi-billion dollar carrier, its complement of multi-million dollar aircraft and a crew of more than 5, 000 Sailors and Marines represent a large investment of our national treasure.
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Executive Order 13554 recognized the Gulf Coast as a national treasure and addressed the longstanding ecological decline of that region, which was compounded by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
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It was a national treasure, with a golden pagoda-style roof the size of a football field supported by a forest of red pillars each more than three metres around.
Now you want to sell it (for whatever aristocratic reasons you may have) but your government has declared it a national treasure and has banned it from leaving the country.
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The singer was one of the most enduring stars of the 1960s and '70s, whose easy style and mellow voice led President Ronald Reagan to call him "a national treasure".
" He calls the medical device industry "a national treasure" and says of the heart failure device: "You tell me of any other therapies that can reduce mortality in that kind of profound way.
Ms. Parramore believes the growing number of female entrepreneurs is actually a national treasure and that, as a country, we need to capitalize on the trend and use it as a critical engine for economic growth.
Koetsu was the first Japanese to sign one of his own tea bowls the famous "Fuji" bowl, now designated a national treasure by the Japanese and hence unable to be shown in the U.S. but he never ran his own kiln.
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