Sentence examples for certain vices from inspiring English sources

He once told an interviewer, "I suppose I identify the right with certain virtues and the left with certain vices.

Dillon agrees with Lisa Tessman that oppression fosters certain vices in the privileged, including arrogance, self-centeredness, callousness, indifference, and social irresponsibility, and adds that it damages the characters of those who perpetrate or are complicit in oppression, and it does so in ways that the benefits of privilege do not outweigh (96).

Debt, like certain vices, such as cigarette-smoking, have experienced times when it was considered sinful, and other times fashionable.

We have entered a new phase of American history where some folks have begun to realize that prohibiting certain vices is foolish or just ineffective.

A friend of ours phoned the Chase Manhattan Bank last Tuesday and asked for a certain vice-president.

The New Yorker, May 7 , 1960P. 37 A friend of ours phoned the Chase Manhattan Bank last Tuesday and asked for a certain vice-president.

By Hayes Jacobs and Stewart Johnson The New Yorker, May 7 , 1960P. 37 A friend of ours phoned the Chase Manhattan Bank last Tuesday and asked for a certain vice-president.

Not everyone is so certain, Vice Sports writer Jorge Arangure Jr, for one, reports that the worst case scenario is highly unlikely: [A] source close to the union said the players would almost certainly opt out of the current deal.

Two appointments are all but certain: Vice-president Xi Jinping to take over from President Hu Jintao (as party chief after the Congress and as president next March); and Li Keqiang to replace his boss, the prime minister, Wen Jiabao, also next March.

Other non-intentionalists take self-deceivers to be responsible for certain epistemic vices such as cowardice in the face of fear or anxiety and lack of self-control with respect the biasing influences of desire and emotion.

(Well, maybe a certain former vice president).