Sentence examples for peculiar value from inspiring English sources

4. The valedictory address of President Washington, as conveying political lessons of peculiar value.

The peculiar value being that getting it out of context gave it a curious dramatic interest?

These non-specialist items are of peculiar value and interest, for they reveal the depth and scope of an enquiring and well-stocked mind that is happy to share its processes of thought with the thoughtful reader.

957, that 'it is the peculiar value of a written constitution that it places in unchanging form limitations upon legislative action.' This, however, does not mean that the form is so rigid as to make government inadequate to the changing conditions of life, preventing its exertion except by amendments to the organic law.

Stay focused and keep that humility of knowing you're just a peculiar value.

And at the end of his second term, Washington walked away again, "[s]atisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary".

Li and a few contemporaries modernized parts of China's forces to protect the old system, but within that system, with its peculiar values and organization, the modern devices could not give full service.

But it was more accurate in another sense, that, as the weeks went by, this trial came to embody the peculiar values of this particular century – its materialism and the inequality which goes with it, the dominance of corporation over state.

But in recent months and years we've witnessed a full-frontal assault on the particular and peculiar values that define the Christian life.

One peculiar documentary value of the text is that the same period in Persian history is extensively covered in the Greek literary tradition by Herodotus, Ctesias, and others, and scholars can thus juxtapose Darius' own accounts with those of almost contemporary foreign historians.

Yet not even the most recent study of the critical work on Mally's deontic logic (Krickler 2008) seems to be aware of Mally's philosophy of values and its peculiar description of value (Wert) and ought (Sollen): "Value and ought can only be understood via emotional presentation" (Mally 1926: 74 or Mally 1971: 312).