Sentence examples for by virtue only from inspiring English sources

Sometimes it is easy to forget what players put themselves through for the good of those watching: Wigan's crumpled in a heap at full-time, with Hull's on their feet by virtue only of the adrenaline that comes with victory.

By virtue only of the fact that the meeting actually went ahead and that all the countries have agreed to turn up again in Peru next December, it was a stepping-stone of sorts.

Still, with the physical play distracting so much from the actual game, it was only Penguins' goalie Marc-André Fleury who'd come under scrutiny as being sub-par by virtue only of having been on the losing side.

That the Representatives in former Assemblies, as well as the present, were elected by virtue only of civil and worldly qualifications, is a truth so evident, that we presume it need not be proved to this Assembly; and for a civil Legislature to impose religious taxes, is, we conceive, a power which their constituents never had to give; and is therefore going entirely out of their jurisdiction...

(People eager to suggest that flying is carbon-intensive should check themselves; the world is not going to be saved by individual acts of virtue, only by collective acts of change of a kind that would lead to China and the U.S.A. radically revising their energy policies).

At their worst, his films can manifest virtue only by displaying other characters misting up at the hero's down-home piety.

It helps, of course, that Tata Motors has deep pockets, by virtue not only of its strong position in the Indian car market, but by dint of being owned by Tata Group, whose holdings include power, steel, beverages and hotels.

These unique antibody isotypes interact with the antigen by virtue of only one single variable domain, referred to as VHH.

Maybe this bank submits rates at which it could borrow – which it is permitted to do, by definition, under the submitting rules – if those rates are lower by virtue of only being a quote it received?

The weathervane dominates the space not only by virtue of scale, but also by suggesting that the museum's view of folk art is not naïve.

In the end the Premier League side scraped through by virtue of the only goal of the game, from a defender at a set piece.