Sentence examples for idea of valuing from inspiring English sources

Philosophers blanch at the idea of valuing trees, streams and people in such a crude way.

All through the 20th century the intrinsic value, espoused for example by John Muir in the US, competed with the responsible utilisation of natural resources (e.g Gifford Pinchot) as the defining idea of valuing the wild.

Among many Montrealers, the idea of valuing traditional female "modesty" is about as welcome as saying you find Toronto more charming than Montreal.

"I really love the idea of value," Crangi says.

As altruistic as that may sound, the purpose of ads that sell the idea of value is, of course, to move merchandise.

"We have lots of resources here but we haven't paid any attention to the idea of value added," said Rodríguez.

Mr Campbell's response to the film has four parts that explore the idea of value and the commoditisation of art.

I think of Ms. Kilimnik as a conceptual artist first and everything else second because her art so persistently examines the idea of value without trying to be valuable.

In fact the idea of value based on more than money chimes with the kind of thinking around alternative economics and networked activity increasingly pointed to as the future, by people like Paul Mason.

"In times when there's economic upheaval, there can be a great deal of questioning the idea of value or the creation of value — as in, asking on very a fundamental level what is something worth," she said.

But no one can plausibly claim that teaching middle-schoolers about mutual masturbation is "neutral" between competing views of morality; the idea of "value free" sex education was exploded as a myth long ago.