Sentence examples for impose virtue from inspiring English sources

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Libertarians dislike them for their preoccupation with using the state to impose virtue.

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But what should worry those sympathetic to Mr. Nader are not his vices, if he has any, but his virtues -- and his determination to impose those virtues on the rest of us.

Thoma goes on: The upper strata wonders, "Why should we pay... when we get little or none of the benefits?" Even worse, this social stratification leads those at the top to begin imposing a virtue and vice story.

Many studies have attempted to quantify the potential of structural systems to delimit the level of force imposed by virtue of their ductility and energy absorption capacity.

Global retailers must learn how to strike the right balance when selecting between the advantages of local retail decision-making in every area, from pricing, assortment and sourcing to format, layout and promotions, and the demands imposed by virtue of operating a successful global organization.

It feels like the last attempt to impose a traditional English virtue of sang-froid on what have become universal values.

Autonomy is the source of all obligations, whether moral or non-moral, since it is the capacity to impose upon ourselves, by virtue of our practical identities, obligations to act (Korsgaard 1996).

But the departing mayor managed to turn pugnacity into a virtue, imposing his will on a city that under his predecessor seemed ungovernable.

By contrast, the key feature of institutional facts is that they involve functions which are not able to be imposed simply by virtue of the specific physical properties of the phenomena on which they are imposed.

The criminal, or criminals, involved in this act have appointed themselves moral judge, juror and executioner, seeing fit to impose a personal notion of virtue on all of society".

"The criminal, or criminals, involved in this act have appointed themselves as the moral judge, juror, and executioner, seeing fit to impose a personal notion of virtue on all of society".

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