"We talk about the resources being used," he remarked to me afterward, "but we don't talk about the value of just being here".
For example, it would make little sense to a biologist to talk about the value of the weight of a mouse without specifying the units of this measurement, nor for a chemist to talk about the value of the ionization energy or the electron affinity of an atom without specifying their units.
We talk about the value of players".
"People used to talk about the value of their property," she said.
The Conservatives talk about the value of hard work, but are cutting help for people doing just that.
That the crafty international scientific community has got together to talk down the value of beachfront property?
"I'm always a bit uneasy about trying to talk up the value of any particular member of the community – we should be valuing absolutely everybody.
The risk in trying to talk down the value of the dollar is that it could fall much further and faster than Bush policy makers would like.
Katie Piper, an acid attack victim, appeared at the press conference to talk about the value of CCTV in ensuring that her attackers were convicted.
He will not talk about the value of the dollar or future interest rate decisions or specific tax or budget measures.
