Sentence examples for held by virtue from inspiring English sources

I doubt not that many valuable titles are now held by virtue of the provisions of these statutes.

"In the dark of night, this officer repeatedly abused the arrest power that he held by virtue of his position as a police officer to prey on vulnerable women," Alan Vinegrad, the United States attorney for Brooklyn, said in a statement.

He interpreted this provision to mean only that the commissioners could not grant title after one year, not that the property rights held by virtue of the Spanish grants were void.

However, with western countries slipping from the economic and political pedestal they have long held -- by virtue of their lacklustre growth rates and failure to adapt to the new realities of the 21st century -- the pendulum has been shifting in favor of emerging countries with greater rapidity over the last decade.

From the proximity of the period there appears little doubt but that this Geffrey left two daughters and coheiresses, married to Robert de Venuz and Gilbert le Marshal, which latter seems to have acquired the office indicated by his name, not however without a dispute from his co-inheritor, whose lands being held by virtue of serving the office, would entitle their holder to fill it".

For this particular study, the medical ethnographer on the team guided the informaticians through the RAP methodology in such a way that we became well aware of assumptions we held by virtue of our training and expertise.

The researchers attributed the performance to a "significant information advantage" that lawmakers hold by virtue of their positions and the fact that they are not bound by insider-trading law.

In addition, early mind-brain identity theorists insisted that these identities, while contingent, hold by virtue of natural (scientific) law.

When p ( x ) is a constant function, the following assertion has been shown to hold by virtue of the Furi-Martelli-Vignoli spectrum; see Theorem 4 of [35] or Lemma 27 of [10].

Reciprocity is merely a restatement that the total ordering (le _{ba}) is the relation-inverse of (le _{ab},) so (iii) holds by virtue of the proof of Proposition 5.0.5.

But in the case of image data such independence assumptions are seen not to hold by virtue of each pixel being highly correlated with its neighbours.