Virtue
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606 examples of Virtue in a sentence
Frugality is no
virtue
if no one is willing to spend.
This suggests a golden opportunity for Europe to make a
virtue
of necessity by pooling its access to much-cheaper IMF funding.
There is another
virtue
associated with a political change engineered by propertied members of society--a stable, gradual and peaceful transition.
John Kerry's great
virtue
has been to resist confusing the demand for security and peace with the hegemonic impulses of America the hyper-power.
The authorities’ decision to allow markets to operate reflects the need to make a
virtue
of necessity: As has been true of decaying communist regimes elsewhere, the government cannot afford to pay the collective farms for their output.
A less agressive anti-europeanism comes from a tendency that struggles for old values like honor and
virtue.
To most Indians, common discourtesy cannot be repackaged as moral
virtue.
The
virtue
of their “party” or clique needs no complex justification: it stands for “American values,” while critics merely provide an “objective apology” for the “enemies of freedom.”
Export promotion is most effective when it combines the
virtue
of helping needy smaller enterprises with the pragmatism of supporting well-resourced larger companies.
Treaties alone do not induce fiscal
virtue.
But the European debt crisis will not disappear into thin air by
virtue
of wishful thinking.
Its greatest
virtue
is that it offers two means of resolving controversies, conciliation and arbitration, in a process that places states and investors on an equal footing.
Entire groups - Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - and their leaders owe their power to their willingness to kill Israelis, which has become the ultimate measure of political
virtue.
Central bankers typically make a
virtue
of understatement and ambiguity.
Indeed, in foreign policymaking, inconsistency is often a
virtue.
Thrift is undoubtedly a virtue; but other considerations should take priority when one’s house is on fire and about to collapse.
In contrast to hormone treatments, given only to patients likely to respond by
virtue
of an analysis of their hormone receptors, chemotherapy is given to all or any eligible patients.
PAD ringleaders now denounce all politicians as corrupt and extol the
virtue
of the monarchy.
But the balance between national prerogatives and international rules must make a
virtue
of political reality.
The problem is that politics everywhere is Aristotelian: concerned with
virtue.
Today, US President Barack Obama is the only liberal democratic leader who speaks the language of values and
virtue.
Obama is often criticized for being cool and aloof, and yet there is nothing of the sort in his promotion of the capacity to live together in peace and mutual respect as the most admirable liberal
virtue
of all.
Homo sapiens, the most cosmopolitan of species, one that thrives by
virtue
of being a generalist, eats only about 200 plant species.
We have to display magnanimity – a difficult enough
virtue
to practice at the best of times.
The G-20 has enough legitimacy for its purpose – which is more limited than the purposes of formal institutions such as the UN, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization – by
virtue
of the fact that it accounts for 85% of the world’s GDP, for example.
In recent months, that narrative has gained the
virtue
of actually being true.
But potential future missions, if they materialize, would be understood as emanating from a sovereign Iraqi decision, not as making a
virtue
out of a fact on the ground.
The state would hand over permanent ownership of land to those who are entitled to it by
virtue
of living and working on it.
A successful economy, Bush argued, requires that people learn to take responsibility for their actions, and policies aimed at boosting home ownership would inculcate this
virtue
on a broader scale.
PRAGUE – Does an intellectual – by
virtue
of his efforts to get beneath the surface of things, to grasp relations, causes, and effects, to recognize individual items as part of larger entities, and thus to derive a deeper awareness of and responsibility for the world – belong in politics?
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