"for the virtue of" is a correct phrase in written English and can be used to discuss moral and ethical principles.
For example, "We strive for the virtue of humility in all our interactions."
"Honesty is brutality," Rebecca says at one point, arguing for the virtue of lying.
Bad as Milbank's book is, Joel Achenbach's would be worse but for the virtue of being so much shorter.
Mr. LaHood, a plainspoken former Republican congressman from Illinois, became an advertisement on Wednesday for the virtue of remaining scripted.
To the extent that at the Democratic Party stands for the virtue of public works, Clinton and Gore had to show that public works work.
"It is for the virtue of this that we shall muddle through to success and for lack of this Germany's brilliant efficiency leads her to final destruction".
I have never subscribed to Ayn Rand's top-down advocacy for the "virtue of selfishness," but from the bottom up it might be just what we need.
For Cheek, the virtue of Atwater's political access outweighed his actions.
The difficulty, or perhaps for some, the virtue, of talking about the subconscious navigation system is that its existence is almost impossible to prove definitively.
But for me, the virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.
The plot required him to be admired for the virtues of his actions.
This year shapes as a defining one for the virtues of free agency.
