Sentence examples for instruments of value from inspiring English sources

It will not be a "garage sale" — a piece of performance art in which a garage sale is enacted, or an exhibition using conceptual instruments of value to interrogate Marx's theory of commodity fetishism.

Money is one of the 'conventions' which human societies have adopted to guard themselves against uncertainty, by allowing people to postpone decisions about whether and what to buy.Hence Keynes's idea that a recession can be caused when a rise in uncertainty drives people to increase their preference for holding money or equivalent instruments of value, rather than goods or services.

There follows a typically cool Didion evisceration of Barbara's delusion: "Whenever I hear about the woman's trip, which is often, I think a lot about nothin'-says-lovin'-like-something-from-the-oven and the Feminine Mystique, and how it is possible for people to be the unconscious instruments of values they would strenuously reject on a conscious level, but I do not mention this to Barbara".

Since bladder cancer survivors have usually undergone several treatments, measuring HRQL with valid instruments is of value for clinicians and patients when making informed decisions based on patients' experiences [ 3].

Third, the ICUM instrument is of value in a setting and language different from those in which it was created and used [ 10, 11].

The questionnaire consisted of four instruments: measures of values, psychological job characteristics, individual perceptions and organisational core task.

Disadvantages of this approach are the lack of instruments for valuing infant health and that some domains specific to child maltreatment may be missing.

Moreover, such instruments would be of value in identifying patients at risk, prior to inclusion in clinical intervention trials.

The depth of the thermal alteration was on average 4 mm larger in group A using the newly tested instrument; dispersion of values was 12 17 mm.

The aim of this study was to investigate the performance of ANN models for prediction of weight loss in obese women treated by LAGB, and to provide an instrument of clinical value in the selection of patients that may benefit from LAGB.

When looking at a smart watch I would propose something like the Butch Test – can this watch retain its value as a timekeeping instrument and item of value even after spending seven years in a place unconducive to a delicate object?