"gaining virtue" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe the process of learning and/or exhibiting virtuous behavior. For example, "John has been steadily gaining virtue since his arrival at the new school."
It helps you gain virtue.
We gain virtue through practice.
Dictatorships want to scrape an acquaintance and gain virtue by association.
Prospects for the legislation looked bright on Monday when the Senate voted 93 to 2 to take up the measure, which would prohibit lawmakers from trading stocks on the basis of confidential information they gain by virtue of their public office.
It looked as if Sissoko had nicked the win for United, but Burnley thoroughly deserved the point they gained by virtue of Boyd's fourth goal of the season - a low shot fired into the bottom corner.
This is an argument that recommends belief cultivation because of the psychological, or moral, or religious, or social, or even the prudential benefits gained by virtue of believing it.
"Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite".
In summary, the critical advantages of the approach for cross-talk assessment and correction that will be described in the following are its ease of use, its experimental validation, and the intuitive understanding gained by virtue of its simplicity.
Importantly, our kinetic analyses those few contacts were responsible for a 2000-fold increase in KD for the mature CH58 over CH58-UA, and this effect was predominantly due to a largely decreased off-rate that could be related back to specific contacts gained by virtue of just a few functionally important mutations.
For one thing, Sen clearly wants to allow that one's capabilities can increase by virtue of gaining opportunities to function even though one does not get real freedom to accept or decline the opportunities.
On the contrary, a "Beijing consensus" has been gaining ground, extolling the virtues of decisive authoritarianism over shilly-shallying democratic debate.
