Indeed, state-supported higher education is greatly prized by residents.
But initiative and enthusiasm is greatly prized by employers.
Erudition was greatly prized in aristocratic circles, which, enamoured of the past, studied and commented on the classic authors (Virgil) or the ancestral rites (the Saturnalia of Macrobius).
Similar chairs are still made in workshops throughout the Orkney Islands today, and Kirkness's own chairs are greatly prized by collectors.
Bloodstone was greatly prized in the Middle Ages and was used in sculptures representing flagellation and martyrdom; it later became of small importance.
However, his work is greatly prized by collectors and a fully signed panel, unknown until the Sotheby's catalog came out, got bidders hugely excited.
In 1934 he became coleader, with violinist Stéphane Grappelli, of the Quintette du Hot Club de France, a group whose many records are greatly prized by connoisseurs.
It's different in Scotland – I feel very lucky that I'm moving to a place where theatre, and all culture, is greatly prized by the Scottish government.
The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands.By Aidan Hartley.Grove/Atlantic; 432 pages; $24.HarperCollins £20TURNINGG out concise, clichéd paragraphs, with little originality but at high speed, is a talent that is greatly prized by the international news agencies along with a stomach for filthy coffee and the ability to work around the clock.
Now, genetic gumshoes in New York and other large cities are scouring apothecary shops in Chinatown to test medicinal powders that may contain rhino horns, seal penises, or bear gall bladder from endangered species whose body parts are greatly prized by traditional oriental medicine.
