The people, though, are increasingly showing their feelings, despite 20 years of rising living standards: in the 180,000 acknowledged major public order incidents each year; in posts on social media and on the internet; in savage satire of the party's claims to virtue.
This theme appears as early as Love in Several Masques and continues throughout, especially in prose parody Shamela where Shamela falsifies claims to virtue to control and get ahead in life.
Deutsche Bank is struggling to be one of the top five banking companies in the world, a position it can lay claim to by virtue of its size, but one that will require big adjustments to the global marketplace.
The Protagoras treats its eponymous sophist with some respect, but the two Hippias dialogues (major and minor) poke fun at their namesake, and the Euthydemus shows its sophists as puzzle-makers who cannot make good their claim to teach virtue.
A substantial framing dialogue between Socrates and Crito surrounds and intrudes upon a reported discussion involving Socrates and two brothers, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, traveling teachers who have much in common with the sophists, and who claim to teach virtue, rather than the forensic rhetoric expected of such experts (274d).
But he laid claim to other virtues, presenting himself as a self-made man whose standing in the outside world would help bring Senegal attention and investment.
The Brahmans, whatever their worldly avocations, claim to have by virtue of their birth the authority to teach the Veda, perform ritual sacrifices for others, and accept gifts and subsistence.
While the modal fictionalists we are now considering do not take ordinary language modal claims to have extensional translations in the language of possible worlds, they may still have a claim to the combined virtue with which Divers is concerned in another, albeit slightly more indirect, way.
The word is a fixture of campaign speeches and other claims to political virtue.
