Sentence examples for cause of virtue from inspiring English sources

In 1776, he talked about the conflict with England not in terms of America or justice but "the cause of virtue".

Knowing that the man about to assume power feels that moral burden is vital to us, for it suggests that he will govern with compassion, in "the cause of virtue".

The Sept. 11 attacks gave President Bush a defining cause and the wind of virtue, and both the European Union and the NATO alliance lined up solidly behind the United States.

The concept of truth involves the idea of the formal cause, that is, the cause in virtue of which matter is enformed, and a thing becomes what it is.

That meant transforming campaign-finance reform from a cause politicians might support in the name of virtue to a cause they'd have to support in the name of survival.

He expresses general skepticism about epiphenomenalist objections to Anomalous Monism that depend on the idea that events cause 'by virtue' of the properties they instantiate (Davidson 1993, 6, 13).

Malvern lies in the Lower Severn/Avon plain affording it a degree of shelter caused by virtue of its nestling in between the Cotswold hills to the east, the Welsh Hills and Mountains to the west, and Birmingham plateau to the north.

He has also cited "The Simpsons" as "one of the most subtle pieces of propaganda around in the cause of sense, humility and virtue".

He once cited "The Simpsons" as "one of the most subtle pieces of propaganda around in the cause of sense, humility and virtue".

The archbishop is an admitted fan who has praised "The Simpsons" as "one of the most subtle pieces of propaganda around in the cause of sense, humility and virtue".

It is an affirmation of virtue: a just cause, which shows that borderless compassion and morality can, occasionally, prevail.