The Republican Party and the Bush-Cheney campaign are wont to talk about their devotion to values.
As a practical matter, this devotion to values created an open-ended temptation to spend vast amounts of time discussing personal accountability, seeking feedback, taking required weeklong courses in ethical decision-making and participating in exhaustive evaluations of colleagues and supervisors.
Companies profess devotion to shareholder value but rarely follow the practices that maximize it.
Yet for all the claims of new-found devotion to shareholder value, this would surely be unthinkable.
He was, however, quick to highlight the simplicity, parsimoniousness and devotion to disciplined value investing that distinguishes this traditionally minded investment firm from much of its industry.
For the Longleaf funds, managed by Southeastern Asset Management of Memphis, an aversion to hot, new things and an unswerving devotion to classic value investing paid off after a long wait.
In recent years, Republican candidates have taken to prattling at election time about their devotion to "family values". But among the first of those values is family loyalty.
The Japanese public, moved by his earnestness and devotion to traditional values, flooded Mr. Yokoi with money, gifts and offers of marriage.
On Monday, the president praised him for his role in killing suspected terrorist leaders, his devotion to American values and his ferocious work ethic.
Great literature and great criticism possess in common a sort of penumbra of wide but unsystematic learning, a devotion to civilized values, an awareness of tradition, and a willingness to rely occasionally on the irrational and intuitive.
Back in 1998, Lieberman solidified his treasured reputation for moral gravitas, flinty independence, and devotion to traditional values with a sanctimonious attack on President Clinton for his sad little dalliance with a White House intern, which, he said, had not only damaged "our democracy and its moral foundations" but also "has helped to threaten the integrity and stability of the family".
