Strength, poise, harmony: China's leaders set great store by the display of such virtues.
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House and Senate tax bills, Trump, who has set great store by at least appearing
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Old imperial powers, with deep pockets and grand ambitions, tend to be fastidious about their image as host and benefactor, and China has always set great store by ceremony.
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Ms Green, who served in the American agency for international development under Mr Obama, says he set great store by "civic-society engagement" to push authoritarian regimes towards international norms.
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Hoover's men are smug, citified so-and-sos in trim suits who set great store by fancy crime-fighting techniques like fingerprint analysis, wiretaps, two-way radios and aerial surveillance.
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Such experts scoff when today's Communist leaders say that they set great store by increasing public happiness as part of the Chinese Dream, President Xi Jinping's campaign to make China great again.
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True, those close to Western leaders have at times also turned to fortune-tellers—think of Nancy Reagan's astrologer or Cherie Blair's New-Age guru, who set great store by the healing power of crystals.
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He set great store by his ability to sell the EU at home and to win reforms in Brussels, despite the fact that he had spent much of his career grumbling about Europe and antagonising the EU bureaucracy (including removing Tory MEPs from their broad right-wing coalition).
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He admitted to an interviewer in 2014 that there had been a number of collisions. "But I never had a car crash". It was clear that he set great store by his accident-free record as a car driver.
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5 Apr 2007.ICRC Chief Faults Rights Protection at Guantanamo. Jakob Kellenberger set great store by a clear strategy for the organization and the adoption of clear positions in a rapidly changing environment. He made a major contribution to achieving those goals.
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Ancient Chinese astrology set great store by celestial omens and comets were an important omen, always disastrous.Schafer, pp 108–9 Under the theory of Wu Xing, comets were thought to signify an imbalance of yin and yang.Needham, p. 32 Chinese emperors employed observers specifically to watch for them.
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Grace with wife c. 1900 Despite living in London for many years, Grace never lost his Gloucestershire accent.Rae, p.1. His entire life, including his cricket and medical careers, is inseparable from his close-knit family background which was strongly influenced by his father Henry Grace, who set great store by qualifications and was determined to succeed.
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From this union nine children were born, six boys and three girls. Only six children survived infancy. Having himself received a limited schooling, Marks set great store by education and saw to it that the children were taught at home by governesses – boys until the age of eight, girls until the age of twelve and then they were sent to private schools in England. Sammy could speak 5 different languages and had a great mind for business.
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The Saint Wenceslaus-Sacred Heart faith community set great store by education from the very start. Religious instruction came first, of course, and a public school existed in Pine Creek from the mid-1870s on and off until 1946. But it was important that the children’s formal education also be grounded in Roman Catholic beliefs and values. Building a school was the easy part: a brick schoolhouse was completed in 1890 for the handsome sum of $3,000.
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We set great store by what our scouts tell us." Despite playing in their first European final, Alavés were confident. Striker Jordi Cruyff believed being the underdogs would suit them: "We haven't been favourites in any of the rounds up to this stage, which means our opponents have felt that they really have to have a go and attack us as much as possible. That gives us time to counter and we are comfortable with that style.
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If she was staying away from home with relatives or friends, she was required to produce similar daily agendas for days away. Her father then insisted that tasks should be carried out as planned, including jobs which in other families of equivalent class and background would be the exclusive preserve of the household servants. At the same time the father set great store by a sound schooling for his daughter. After attending the local school she was sent on to a Ladies' College.
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She and Arnold formed an intense professional relationship, and as they exchanged insights on photography a personal friendship also developed between them. These two were not the only photography students who felt themselves artistically suffocated by political spoon-feeding and intolerance. With others they set up a student mutual support group which they called "action fotografie". In a country which set great store by the visual arts, many of those involved in "action fotografie" would go on to become some of East Germany's top photographers.
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Significantly, Tommy related that both Tom Clough and Billy Pigg played covering the holes with the pads, rather than the ends, of their fingers. He advocated playing tunes simply, with little ornamentation, and playing notes for full length, closing the hole only briefly before the next note. He also argued that for dance tunes, one should imagine playing for dancers, and for song tunes, one should imagine the words. He also set great store by rhythmic precision - his background in Highland piping gave good training for this.
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Also waiting was the Embassy's Third Secretary to present a letter informing the Duke that the Embassy would not be available to assist him or his wife formally in the course of their visit. Ogilvie-Forbes later visited the Duke in his hotel to pay the personal respects he had been unable to pay him in public. A welcoming crowd of approximately 2,000 lined the streets outside the station; the German media set great store by the Windsors' visit from the beginning. As the Windsors were leaving, the crowd surged forward and a crush ensued.
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Though tremendously busy, he set great store by his family life. In 1836 he lived at Norton Lees on the outskirts of Sheffield but in 1837 he moved to Whittington, and invited his father, mother and sister to join him, with his maiden aunts, the Misses Wicksteed, to live nearby. On 21 July 1840 he married Elizabeth Drayton, fourth child of Mr. William Drayton, of Leicester, with whom he had a son and a daughter. From about 1850 he began to prepare for retirement and took on no new professional work.
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760 Negotiations were tense, with a Western offensive expected, and on the basis that substantive negotiations could only follow the replacement of the Hitler regime. Hoffmann wrote that, when the Venlo Incident stalled the talks, the British agreed to resume discussions primarily because of the "efforts of the Pope and the respect in which he was held. Chamberlain and Halifax set great store by the Pope's readiness to mediate." Pius, without offering endorsement, advised Osbourne on 11 January 1940 that the German opposition had said that a German offensive was planned for February, but that this could be averted if the German generals could be assured of peace with Britain, and not on punitive terms.
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Smuts saw this alliance between Rhodes and Hofmeyr, this union of the two white races, as a permanent and insoluble part of Cape life, an optimistic sign of the future to the rest of South Africa. Smuts, determined to do what he could to aid this process, used his newspaper articles in support of Rhodes; defending what he saw as the man of vision against his parochial and small-minded rivals. As Smuts was to write in 1902: Smuts viewed the policies of the Transvaal with disappointment. Smuts set great store by the ties of blood and kinship between the Afrikaners; the Transvaal, in common with most of South Africa, had been originally peopled by men from the Cape.
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Other than these works few articles have been written on Petrarch's epic poem in English, however there have been various serious scholarly works written in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in French, Italian, and German. To Petrarch, his Africa was his croce e delizia for the rest of his life. Petrarch set great store by Africa and his other classicizing works, but the epic was not particularly well-received because of the literary transposition from Livy; the two parts of the death of Magone and the love story of Sofonisba have been rather better received. Historians show how it was quite likely that Petrarch met Chaucer and that the Africa and other of Petrarch's works influenced works of Chaucer, especially certain episodes of Canterbury Tales.
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