The thing can also effect genuinely useful change by simple virtue of its celebrity, and this embarrasses the powers that be, as in the Hackney housing story, so it will be really interesting to see what else happens.
I am, however, instructed to wear a reflective windcheater with the word POLICE on the back, and by simple virtue of donning it, I am no longer an ordinary citizen.
As one of his biographers put it, "The whole thrust of Prince's art can be understood in terms of a desire to escape the social identities thrust upon him by simple virtue of his being small, black, and male".
John Fordham Endless Boogie Mighty Fine Pie These New York psych-rock classicists transcend their stylistic strictures (dirty great riff, solo, rinse, repeat, at some length) by simple virtue of jaw-dropping, world-beating chops and gloriously cornball stage names (Top Dollar, Grease Control, etc).
It is rather by simple virtue of their location within geographic borders that people belong to a state and fall under the authority of its ruler.
So bands like the Stones, The Troggs, Them, The Beach Boys or The Kinks were self-contained hit-making machines and were 'credible' by simple virtue of the fact that they wrote their own stuff.
In other words, by the simple virtue of being medics, the students may be viewed by Scotland Yard as very distinct from the hundreds of British men who have previously crossed the Syrian border to join Isis.
It became fashionable to suggest that Jones was jinxed, his great performances of real people destined to be blotted out by inferior ones that had the simple virtue of coming first.
Apparently, each technological revolution makes us pine for the simpler virtues of the last one.
Everything must be lavish, when actually the most drop-dead couture is often perfectly simple by virtue of the cutting.
Mechanically, Burke continued, the IRMA plan is relatively simple by virtue of working through local banks (and American Homestead already has eight major ones on line) that market IRMA in their respective areas.
