Sentence examples for be based on virtue from inspiring English sources

• To the Editor: While I agree with Richard D. Kahlenberg's essay opposing legacy preferences at colleges, and appreciate his reference to Thomas Jefferson's belief that college admission should be based on "virtue and talent," I wish Mr. Kahlenberg had gone one step further.

Evidence of its earlier purpose is still visible in the final text, beginning as it does with the discussion of a moral issue, namely, whether morality is to be based on virtue alone, or on natural happiness, or a combination of both.

Montesquieu also produced an innovative analysis of governance that assigned to each form of government an animating principle for example, republics are based on virtue, monarchies on honour, and despotisms on fear.

It is based on virtue ethics and takes an approach similar to West Point military academy.

The philosophy asserts that virtue (such as wisdom) is happiness and judgment be based on behavior, rather than words.

There is no scientific virtue in avoiding all mention of our personal experience when science is supposed to be based on empirical (i.e., experienced) evidence.

Some of its reasons for preferring gold to green OA are based on real virtues of gold.

Also in Cambridge are developments such as the "Scandinavian-style" Seven Acres, by the multinational construction company Skanska, which again is based on the virtues of simplicity and shared space.

A few years earlier he'd written an article called "In Defense of English Cooking," but since his defense was based on the virtues of bread sauce, marrow jam, suet and haggis, I wonder if it really helped.

Combination of HSV1-tk and PET imaging is based on the virtues of vectors which can carry and selectively express the HSV1-tk reporter gene in a variety of cancer cells but not in normal tissue.

The series was based on old-fashioned virtues of application and variation.