The Pru came a respectable 18th in the world, whereas that supposed shareholder-value champion, Lloyds TSB, crawled in at 85th place, and Barclays at 96th.
The International Paper offer values Champion at $75 a share in cash and stock, up from last month's unsolicited offer of $64 a share in cash and stock.
In Singapore's 2006 general election, a young voter put it to the country's elder statesmen and Asian-values champion, Lee Kuan Yew, that allowing greater freedom of expression would make it stronger.
Small businessman Joe the Plumber and family values champion Sarah Palin are two obvious examples.
I would suggest hundreds of thousands.The values championed by football are a powerful force for social integration and civic education.
But it soon becomes clear that the pro-capitalist and borderline racist views he expresses are at odds with the values championed by his new employers.
They hoped that Raqqa residents, having endured the Draconian rule of ISIS, would be open to the diametrically contrary values championed by Öcalan, from secularism to gender equality.
It is now a convenient catchall that includes a vague and shifting notion of outdated proprieties, a system of "family values" championed by people who are often serially divorced and philandering, of hostility to every form of difference.
This week ABC, a conservative Spanish paper, said that the church felt "under attack" from the "militant secularism" practised by the new government.There is certainly a feeling that social tides in Europe are moving against the conservative values championed by Pope John Paul II and by Mr Buttiglione, the pope's friend and biographer.
The bishop of St Albans, the Rt Rev Dr Alan Smith, told the programme: "The issue is whether we think that what makes for human thriving is more and more shopping and whether actually there are other things that we as a society might want to value and champion".
Ruth was a valued trustee, champion of the Museum, and pioneer in the contemporary craft scene.
