Sentence examples for major virtues from inspiring English sources
Transit-related developments have three major virtues, Mr. Yaro said.
One of the major virtues of "Encounter" is the championing of misunderstood, undervalued or forgotten talents.
Major virtues are compassion and mercy, which God will show Nineveh in return for contrition.
Pride and covetousness are the major vices; humility and almsgiving are the major virtues; and poverty is endorsed as the favoured status for the Christian life.
First, it must be said that, in MGM's excellent wide-screen transfer, the major virtues of "Heaven's Gate" -- namely, Vilmos Zsigmond's luminous photography and Mr. Cimino's often brilliantly composed individual shots -- are as apparent as ever.
So crammed are the details of the inquiry, and so delicately must the topic of abuse be handled, that a more intrepid visual manner might have thrown the movie off track, and one of its major virtues is what's not there: no creepy flashbacks of prowling priests, or — as in the prelude to Clint Eastwood's "Mystic River" — of children in the vortex of peril.
"As a major virtue, courage helps to define the excellent person and is no mere optional trait," writes George Kateb, a political theorist and emeritus professor at Princeton University.
Faced with incessant threats from Ottoman armies and rival groups, clans traditionally emphasized personal courage in combat as a major virtue.
The major virtue of family limited partnerships is that they're a great vehicle for lowering estate taxes because you can discount the value of the assets in them.
I have read some of the material before, but a great deal is new and the book's major virtue is in bringing it all together to paint a complete picture of the problems faced by the BBC in trying to fulfil its brief to be a window on the world for its audience.
Rand states that charity is not a major virtue or moral duty (1964b); likewise, presumably, kindness, generosity, and forgiveness.
