Sentence examples for asserts the virtue of from inspiring English sources

It asserts the virtue of Cyrus as a gods-fearing king of a traditional Mesopotamian type.

Why do those who assert the virtues of unconstrained individualism, who insist it is unnecessary and wasteful to help citizens flourish, nevertheless provide their children every conceivable advantage?

And more progressives have come to recognize and assert the fundamental virtues of Social Security: that it helps to mitigate the increased risk of retirement insecurity, in an age of defined-contribution pensions; that, as a forced-savings program, it helps to overcome behavioral biases that lead people to under-save; and that it's mildly redistributive, universal, and administratively efficient.

Prosecutors have asserted that the Virtue party of today is nothing more than an extension of Welfare, and that Mr. Erbakan is controlling it from behind the scenes even though he has been banned from politics.

Both actor and director in the spectacle of modern life, he asserts control by virtue of the piercing and hypnotic power of his gaze.

Moore G (2012) The virtue of governance, the governance of virtue.

And what is the virtue of that?

The virtue of film is its imperfection.

GARDENERS understand the virtue of pruning.

Originalism has the virtue of being simple.

It had the virtue of brevity.