Sentence examples for the only values from inspiring English sources

Money and power are the only values held in any esteem.

The only values now are cash values; the cities have been stifled with the arrival of the tower blocks; the heart has grown small.

Thank goodness we are not living in Sorkin's America, where the only values that matter are the ones of a bygone era and where women are so much better when they let the men do all the important work.

A place where money and profit are not the only values, exemplified by the 70,000 volunteers who made the Games work and showed the world a smiling face while they were at it.

It is, as political philosopher Alan Haworth said in a briefing distributed to parliamentarians this year, "an object lesson in the systematisation of those general principles which most effectively embody the only values most appropriate to a free people".

Of course these are not the only values, and Democrats are free to argue for an alternative set, but if the contest is between those whose values come to mind immediately with the very mention of the word and those whose values have to be explained —"I'm not against traditional marriage, I'm just for anti-discrimination" — the game is over before it begins.

Is that the only value we can put to health?

"The only value of power is the effect, the efficacy of its use," Mr. Biden said.

(The only value in FR turned out to be Genes Reunited, the family history spinoff).

"The only value of green belts is for those who own houses within them," Cheshire argues.

Indeed, as strategist (and Nobel laureate) Thomas Schelling suggests, deterrence is about the only value the weapons might have for Iran.