At best, politicians paid lip service to protecting traditional values.

Other groups find themselves trying to defend traditional values on such a wide range of issues that they inevitably have to pick and choose.

Plans to rewrite the promise come as attempts are made to overhaul the image of the organisation as a bastion of traditional values.

As the recession bites, we are rushing to embrace traditional values.

Yet we still rely on traditional values to produce the next generation.

The traditional view that underpinned private pensions was that in the long term, stock market and investment returns would provide.

But, he reminds us, those holding to the traditional view can be equally guilty of such misperceptions.

All the other candidates belonged to parties whose leaders want to dismantle the traditional view of marriage.

Deflection and duplication, although radical in some ways, leave many elements of the traditional view in place.

He countered the traditional view that practice makes perfect.

The marketing logic goes that modern couples are simply choosing to live with each other instead of getting married, making the traditional wedding list outmoded.

I was really happy to get the gold as it's not exactly like a traditional wedding cake.

While other parts of the traditional wedding ceremony have evolved, this particular ritual has stayed stubbornly unchanged.

A ten- year relationship that a traditional wedding list would have been pointless - we had the towels, teapots and chopping boards that any two people could need.

And with most wedding insurance policies priced at around 100 — cheaper than a tier of a traditional wedding cake — they make good sense for your peace of mind.