Perhaps because, despite decades of rampant privatisation in other areas of British life, it embodies values that no one can quite pluck up the courage to dismiss.
Social capital theory holds that social connections embody value to both individuals and society as a whole, therefore social networks and relationships between people are important resources.
Beyond that, he said, the characters embody values make adults comfortable.
About 10 years ago, he switched his allegiance to the Socialists, who seemed to embody values that had grown important to him, such as equality and social justice.
These "gentlemen" meet independently of the court, and form their own opinions about the state, attempting to embody values of "impersonality and objectivity" (Hume).
But each entity also has an embodied set of values, and the art of life is to structure one's environment in such a fashion as to best realize those embodied values, i.e., to place in harmony the natural forces of one's life and one's environment.
Embodying Values in Technology: Theory and Practice.
Banking, too, in those days was a sacred trust, an enterprise that embodied values superior to the merely material.
David Cameron has cited the late Labour leader John Smith as an example of someone who embodied values showing why the Scots should reject independence.
The world of lived experience is not merely a theoretical representation, but is directly present to us as embodying values that are relevant to our purposes.
Language guides behavior not only when used explicitly to issue commands or suggestions, but also by embodying value-laden distinctions, such as the distinction between right and wrong.
