Sentence examples for a personal virtue from inspiring English sources

(Conservation, according to Cheney, is "a personal virtue").

Improved energy conservation is not a "personal virtue," as the vice president suggests.

Dick Cheney once scoffed that energy conservation can be a "personal virtue" but is no basis for an energy policy.

This aversion to rhetoric, like Obama's aloofness from Congress, is a personal virtue that hurt him politically.

In a speech to oil industry executives and business and community leaders, the senator implicitly criticized Mr. Cheney, who in 2001 dismissed conservation as a "personal virtue".

"All of this Mr. Penn captures effortlessly through voice and gesture," Mr. Scott continued, "but what is most arresting is the sense he conveys of Milk's fundamental kindness, a personal virtue that also functions as a political principle".

Gone were references to conservation as a mere "personal virtue" with no place in sound public policy.

Some also said they were concerned that Mr. Cheney's remarks about conservation last week -- that saving energy was a "sign of personal virtue" but not a basis for "a sound, comprehensive energy policy" -- could invite more recriminations from Democrats and environmentalists.

Will the Bush administration drop its fixation on drilling in the Arctic -- which would produce too little oil, too late to make any difference -- and realize that conservation isn't just a "sign of personal virtue" but a way to make the world more stable?

"We had a vacuum of leadership at the federal level," says Ron Pernick, the managing director of Clean Edge, recalling that Vice President Dick Cheney dismissed conservation efforts as "a sign of personal virtue, but … not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy".

In fact, Mr. Cheney said last week, "Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy".