Sentence examples for its main virtue from inspiring English sources

Its main virtue is that it will spare members of Congress from worrying about a government shutdown during their long Christmas break.

Obviously does it respond to local realities but more than this its main virtue resides in the fact that it establishes a matrix reflecting and measuring the consequences of different design decisions.

This book, full of typos and awkwardnesses, is not like this at all and its main virtue is probably that it is a rather humble, essentially good-hearted and well-meaning production," he said.

Its main virtue with regard to stereos is that it is extremely easy to set up.

A quick glance at the life of the average merchant banker will provide instant empirical disproof of this, and its main virtue was that enough people believed in it to put a halt to a certain amount of interpersonal disagreement and hold back from cursing each other.

Its main virtue: brevity.

While Cruyff had genius as his main virtue, Del Bosque has wisdom.

To voters, his main virtue lay in never having held high office, which was taken as a sign that he was not corrupt.

A lucklustre campaign has confirmed suspicions that his main virtue, in the eyes of his sponsor, prime minister Donald Tusk, is to leave the limelight to the government, present a dignified but low-key image of Poland abroad, and keep the presidential veto firmly under wraps.

We'd offer predictions on these and many other matters, only we remember words of caution from the late New York columnist Murray Kempton, who once said that his main virtue as a prognosticator was to be wrong 10 minutes ahead of everyone else.

Dr. O. H. Frazier, director of cardiovascular surgery research at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, said the pump's "main virtue was its durability, which showed that its engineering was very effective in giving heart patients a meaningful extension of life".