President Kennedy, in the hope of defending virtue against vice, encouraged Floyd Patterson, who had the endorsement of the N.A.A.C.P., to defend his heavyweight title against Sonny Liston, an ex-con, who did not.
7. Little presents this reply in the context of defending virtue theorists.
Not long after Watergate, she worried about "over-involvement" and a newspaper's need to guard against "the romantic tendency to picture itself in the role of a heroic and beleaguered champion, defending virtues against overwhelming odds".
Aside from the robustly unwholesome folks who run the brothel where Pericles' daughter, Marina Katie Hartkee), is forced to defend her virtue, none of these characters were really made for close-ups.
In Scene 1 as the two young officers Ferrando and Guglielmo, defend the virtue of their sweethearts, the sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella, against the slurs of the cynical old bachelor, Don Alfonso, you glimpse the young women through slatted blinds on the back wall as they stroll on the beach in straw hats and pretty summer dresses.
To defend her virtue theory, Potter would have to insist that in such a situation, either one is required simply to disappoint someone's trust rather than to be untrustworthy, or that the kind of trustworthiness at issue is specific not full trustworthiness.
Butler's senior administrators, Watts argues, lost sight of the institution's mission and turned to their lawyers to defend their virtue.
Expecting government to "defend our virtues" suggests the author misunderstands virtue itself, which can only be developed by individuals freely making choices, and suffering or enjoying their consequences.
They go on television to defend its virtues.
Both support deep American engagement abroad and vigorously defend the virtues of national service and the projection of military force ("Speak softly and carry a big stick", said Roosevelt).
