Sentence examples for expense of virtue from inspiring English sources

For instance, the belief that health is good is mistaken because only virtue is good; still, this mistaken belief is expressed as fear at the prospect of losing one's health, which, in turn, can move one to preserve health at the expense of virtue.

Shephard is commendably nonjudgmental on such questions, and he also raises an important point about the writing of history, which so often dwells on spectacular evil at the expense of pedestrian virtue.

Carmakers worry that consumers will think that P.Z.E.V.'s performances will suffer at the expense of their environmental virtues.

For instance, literacy and numeracy may easily be targeted, but improvements in schools in those areas may be at the expense of less measurable virtues, such as creativity.John Kay, an economist, says that the whole experiment is doomed.

This veneration of comedic truth, often at the expense of less-cited virtues like imagination, has become so widespread and unquestioned that comics sound like rappers boasting about being "real".

Our review indicates that Andersen failed to meet its responsibilities.... Enron Employees Who Invested in the LJM Partnerships Michael Kopper, who worked for Fastow in the finance area, enriched himself substantially at Enron's expense by virtue of his roles in Chewco, Southampton Place, and possibly LJM2.

But Spain's 3-2 victoverover South Africa changed his mind as the Paraguayans advanced to a second-round match against Germany at the expense of the South Africans by virtue of the number of goals scored.

Women often encounter extra expenses by virtue of being women (menstrual products come to mind) -- but extra, lady-specific costs sneak into goods and services all genders use, too.

And in worldwide terms it has slipped to second behind BMW in the first two quarters of 2005.Mercedes tried to reverse its decline in America by cramming ever more features into its cars at the expense of their reliability and quality—virtues for which its name had become a byword.

We may understand the term 'corruption' simply to mean the advancement of personal or sectional interest at the expense of the public good, and 'civic virtue' as its opposite that is, a willingness to do one's part in supporting the public good.

Mr. Khodorkovsky is no paragon of virtue.