He declared that the world, for its political survival, must find a new, shared system of transcendent values to replace the traditional religious beliefs that science has eroded.

It's rare enough to hear a politician talk about transcendent values, rarer still one willing to lay out a plan for developing a new universal system.

On this reading, presumably, the transcendent value for humankind is simply to survive, for purposes to be revealed at a later time.

Fiscal discipline, in short, is no longer the most transcendent value on Capitol Hill.

Metaphorically, at least, it is a sacred site, certainly for those who believe in the transcendent value of words.

It speaks to them of transcendent values, of age-old virtues that have made the long journey to an emperor's court in order to be received there with honor.

Burke also advocated for those transcendent values that found support in such institutions as the church, the family, and the state.

And, unlike Sisyphus, he can find no spiritual or transcendent value in the activity that might enable him to endure or even to affirm it.

In the creation of vernacular utopias, Duany and Plater-Zyberk appeal to transcendent values of their own.

At the same time, Balkin argued that all ideological and moral analysis presupposes a transcendent ideal of truth and "a transcendent value of justice."