Sentence examples for general virtue from inspiring English sources

In case there was any lingering doubt in your mind about the sagacity and general virtue of Michael McCarthy, our Environment Editor, he sent a bunch of tweets this afternoon which will set you straight.

The object of his principal work, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness (1793), was to reject conventional government by demonstrating the corrupting evil and tyranny inherent in its power of manipulation.

President Obama, seeking to quiet the public disorders of which he took the Arizona shooting to be a symptom, spoke of the healing value of "civility" -- a general virtue whose desirability no one could fail to endorse.

Covalent drugs have resurged in recent years and several reports have extolled the general virtues of developing irreversible inhibitors.

One session was dedicated to extolling the general virtues of the "three-step drop," meaning three quick steps back from the line of scrimmage before setting one's feet and, ideally, throwing: a blitz-thwarting technique that rewards decisiveness.

6 1 After an interval of ten years the same madness which had possessed Tiberius Gracchus now seized upon his brother Gaius, who resembled him in his general virtues as well as in his mistaken ambition, but far surpassed him in ability and eloquence.

They tended to give general virtues that the Muslim doctors should hold.

Spirituality is really a general community virtue which in my opinion can be shared but it really is not a type of service.

The fact that liberals and conservatives disagree on the other three principles "suggests to me that they are not general moral virtues but specific ideological commitments or values," Dr. Jost said.

Much of the recent literature on the epistemic significance of disagreement is focused on cases in which two persons disagree with respect to a single proposition which is inferentially justified, and in which the two parties are known to each other to have the same evidence and general cognitive virtues (Christensen 2009).

Cheever breaks the general pattern by virtue of a late recovery after stupendous alcoholic wallowing.