Sentence examples for definite virtue from inspiring English sources

So silence here is a definite virtue.

The second act has the definite virtue of introducing Tess (E. Katherine Kerr), a rich art collector who is wonderfully drawn by Mr. Bunin.

Baker's elder statesmanship offers definite direction by virtue of his presence alone.

Not definitive, just definite.

In virtue of semi-definite programming method, controller parameters are derived in terms of the solutions to a series of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) that can be easily solved by the Matlab toolboxes.

This facilitates a response to versions of the Fregean puzzle involving definite descriptions, because sentences with co-designating definite descriptions have different contents, in virtue of the different conditions involved.

The inductive form of the sorites is ruled out in virtue of the fact that \(F x)\) is not a definite (i.e. non-vague) property of natural numbers.

By virtue of the Schur complement lemma, the third matrix and/or the fourth matrix will be negative definite if and only if, (4.8).

Predicativists and meta-linguistic descriptivists already hold a version of this view, in virtue of their holding that bare uses of names are equivalent to complex demonstratives or incomplete definite descriptions.

Virtue is often the foundation of society not just because of cohesion value, but because it gives a definite quality of life.

Today's virtue ethicists obviously don't think so, but they have nevertheless struggled to come up with an account of human nature that would give some definite content to the idea of virtue.