Sentence examples for repository of values from inspiring English sources

Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (1945) and his Sword of Honour trilogy (1965; published separately as Men at Arms [1952], Officers and Gentlemen [1955], and Unconditional Surrender [1961]) venerate Roman Catholicism as the repository of values seen as under threat from the advance of democracy.

Eventually, as we discover in the analogous common law tradition, we end up working our way through many related cases over time, and along the way generate a sophisticated typology of cases and governing paradigms that provide us with a rich repository of values for social criticism.

This imbedded repository of values, images and references, is inevitably invoked in peace as in war, and more so in war and times of turmoil.

I don't think of it as sustenance or escape so much as I think of it as a repository of values now under assault, which may sound ridiculous given how many of our movies and television shows are salacious, shallow, stupid and bombastic.

Her role suffers from what might be called the David Hare Dilemma, in which a sympathetic playwright makes women the repository of value and emotion and in doing so ends up by undermining his own feminism.

China's central bank, the People's Bank of China, called Friday for the development of an international currency other than the dollar that would be a safe repository of value, in the latest sign of China's search for other ways to invest its international reserves.

The only collectibles that interest me are contemporary art and bird carvings, but I don't own them as a repository of value.

We treasure paintings and sculpture, he said, because "we need to have repositories of value".

Peter Williamson, of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, regards emerging markets as repositories of "value-for-money strategies for recessionary times".

At both ends of an electronic payments network, repositories of value are needed (also known as bank accounts in the developed markets) to hold the balance being sent and received.

As for the future, commentators such as Haidt and Lilla seek a "post-identity" liberalism, built round a restoration of the nation state as repository of agreed values.