"In the state of Israel, the individual's freedom of choice is one of basic values.
To some here, the judge's ruling reflected a similar compromising of basic values.
This week, Mr. Lieberman has repeatedly presented his and Mr. Gore's policies as a broad vision growing out of basic values.
And so I want to frame the issue in terms of basic values and principles that we share in order to establish sympathy and empathy and identification with someone else.
In Israel's view, what he calls the "package of basic values" that defines modernity – toleration, personal freedom, democracy, racial equality, sexual emancipation and the universal right to knowledge – derives principally from the claims of the Radical Enlightenment.
If there is a revolution to come in contemporary art, there is really only one way for it to go, which is back to a set of basic values, substantial ideas and a recommitment to visual expression.
This, plus Trump's success in getting the GOP to go all in with his virulent nativist nationalism, has pushed Democrats toward a more unabashedly pro-immigrant posture as a matter of basic values, rather than practicality.
And, if they decided to handle it in the way they actually did, Yahoo's executives might have understood how difficult it would be to explain this decision – in terms of basic values and commitments – to everyone it would affect.
The integration law would also include a "canon of basic values", he said, because of the need to create a society "where people live with each other", which was "as important for the residents of Bavaria as it is for the refugees".
