While Sale opposed the coerced conversion of Muslims and acknowledged virtues in Mohammed's teachings, he was nonetheless a product of his religiously-fraught time who saw Islam as fundamentally foreign.
It may be worth recalling that many British Muslim communities originate from, and still identify with, deeply conservative places in south Asia (rural Kashmir or Bangladesh, for example) where loyalty to established authority is a widely acknowledged virtue.
Of course an understated cashmere coat also possessed the practical, if rarely acknowledged, virtue of camouflaging an outfit that might have been all too hastily assembled in the mad rush of a Fashion Week.
Acknowledging the virtues as well as the limitations of monetary regulation in the context of work migration calls for further creative thinking about institutional design in this field.
He has also sent apologetic e-mail messages to colleagues over the last few weeks, acknowledging, "By virtue of being a senior author, I have lent considerable credibility to this work".
"Once it was tarred and feathered, nobody would acknowledge its virtues".
Millions have found success through the school system, and I am the first to acknowledge its virtues.
Their even-tempered realism allows them to acknowledge the virtues in emerging institutional arrangements (such as regional groups), including ones they openly oppose (democracy leagues).
The conservatives I spoke to over the past few days, on the other hand, carefully limited the scope of their tributes, even as they acknowledged the virtue of certain liberal values.
But by the time we see the cinematic, romanticized faces of Cleopatra from films and paintings in the final gallery of the new exhibition "Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt," opening Saturday at the Franklin Institute here, we are prepared to acknowledge the virtue of at least some idealization.
A conservative white paper on the ACA just issued by the American Enterprise Institute acknowledges the virtue of imposing some "cost discipline" on employer plans, but suggests doing so by capping the tax exemption for employees at a given level of premium.
