Sentence examples for fundamental virtues from inspiring English sources

Mr. Romney and his Republican rivals are not shy about praising America's fundamental virtues.

Others seem to misunderstand the fundamental virtues of the original version.

It shuns trickery and puts its faith in fundamental virtues: its freshness; the pureness or punch of its flavors; the skill with which it's been cooked.

And more progressives have come to recognize and assert the fundamental virtues of Social Security: that it helps to mitigate the increased risk of retirement insecurity, in an age of defined-contribution pensions; that, as a forced-savings program, it helps to overcome behavioral biases that lead people to under-save; and that it's mildly redistributive, universal, and administratively efficient.

"South Pacific" can stand as a symbol of a time when all could agree on the fundamental virtues that the country strove to represent to the world: a can-do spirit, a belief in self-improvement, the courage to fight for the collective good.

Let us give human intelligence and agency more credit, and the most fundamental virtues of love and liberty will help us find reasonable mechanisms of regulating and deregulating our behaviors with changing times.

So understood, selfishness is a fundamental virtue.

"Imagination is the fundamental virtue of civilisation.

Throughout his long career in politics, McCain, who called his PAC Straight Talk America, has presented frankness as his fundamental virtue.

Dworkin devotes the stiffest part of "Sovereign Virtue" to an explication of the thought that the fundamental virtue of any society is equality.

The other, more fundamental virtue of the gas tax is that it brings the price of gasoline in line with its true cost.