Virtue
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606 examples of Virtue in a sentence
Civic
virtue
is rare.
The ICT sector had developed by
virtue
of its distance from, rather than proximity to, government.
NEW HAVEN – In his classic Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits(1724), Bernard Mandeville, the Dutch-born British philosopher and satirist, described – in verse – a prosperous society (of bees) that suddenly chose to make a
virtue
of austerity, dropping all excess expenditure and extravagant consumption.
Meanwhile, by
virtue
of more than 30 swap arrangements with other central banks (the first was with South Korea in December 2008), China is using its foreign-exchange reserves to help its neighbors and others defend themselves against volatile international capital flows.
In our globalized age, we have lost the privilege – and, paradoxically, the
virtue
– of ignorance.
By making a
virtue
of its response to democratic pressures, the EU could regain Europe-wide support.
Their exodus accelerated in August 2004, after the start of the terrorist bombing campaign against Christian churches by Islamists who accuse them of collaboration with the allies by
virtue
of their faith.
Many large pharmaceutical companies are now espousing the
virtue
of these strategies, but will they work if adopted inconsistently by the industry and not at all by academia and funders?
Like Wilson, Trump also gained some fans simply by
virtue
of a personality that is atypical for a politician.
If the success of a TV pundit with a red rubber nose is a rebuke to the dull and fawning anchormen, the political success in recent years of entertainers, demagogues, and public figures who make a
virtue
of their indiscretion is a slap in the face of the professional political class which they profess to despise.
But, in a Europe adrift and a world on the edge of the abyss, we cannot take away from him the
virtue
of being one of the last who – partly owing to his famous “arrogance” – is capable of resisting the new nationalist international.
Two DNA sequences generated at random must be 25% identical, by
virtue
of the fact that DNA is a sequence of only four bases.
The idea was to make a
virtue
of inexperience.
The rich were supposed to save much of their income, as saving was both a fund for investment and a moral
virtue.
Conversely, the Czech Republic, Austria, and Hungary are safer, by
virtue
of geography, than (for instance) Finland or Sweden.
Those who had argued for the free market’s
virtue
of “transparency” ended up creating financial systems so opaque that banks could not make sense of their own balance sheets.
In the context of a long tradition where women are held to stand for public virtue, it’s not surprising to find the battle exacerbated in places where political authority and legitimacy are frayed.
Such a Poland required a moral revolution in which crimes would be punished,
virtue
rewarded, and injustice redeemed.
After all, it is a
virtue
of democracy that those who suffer from growing inequality and vanishing opportunities can express their grievances in elections.
The
virtue
of such models is that they make explicit the chain of cause and effect, and therefore render transparent the specific assumptions on which a particular prediction rests.
Having witnessed the ravages of the last century, they simply no longer see any virtue, nobility, or utility in waging war, and certainly not aggressive nuclear war.
Modesty is a
virtue
in private life.
Russian nationalism has always considered Ukraine an extension of Russia itself, by
virtue
of it being home to places that are among the dearest to Russian identity.
According to this view, there was no conspiracy, but a great social revolution that, by
virtue
of a powerful internal logic, brought to power workers, peasants, and the Bolshevik party, which represented their will.
Ignatieff says Obama already owns the consequences of his inaction;Friedman reminds him of the
virtue
of prudence.
Similarly, while Tocqueville thought that pursuing
virtue
as the ancients did, or having a religious faith, could sometimes elevate the soul, both conflict with the democratic ideal if they become officially prescribed in public life.
Part of the explanation for the higher esteem in which the IMF is now held is its recent display of intellectual flexibility – a rare
virtue
for a big, lumbering bureaucracy.
By
virtue
of the popular mandate that I received, I am committed to moderation and common sense, which is now guiding all of my government’s policies.
Euroskeptics claim that leaving the EU would enable the UK to dictate terms in trade negotiations with other members by
virtue
of the fact that Britain runs a trade deficit with them.
This statement itself was unlawful because, according to Russia's constitution, dismissals of duly elected officials should occur only by
virtue
of court orders.
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