Sentence examples for misguided virtue from inspiring English sources

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In the political arena, the chief executive of the biggest multinational has just one vote and that is how it should be.* "Misguided Virtue: False Notions of Corporate Social Responsibility", by David Henderson.

This survey owes a lot to "Misguided Virtue" by David Henderson, published by the Institute of Economic Affairs in London; "A Poverty of Reason" by Wilfred Beckerman, published by the Independent Institute; and "Just Business" by Elaine Sternberg, published by Oxford University Press.

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Contrary to Dennis B. Ross's description of an apt American policy toward Iran, the policy is misguided by virtue of the sheer failure to produce any hard evidence that indicates Iran's breach of its nonproliferation treaty obligations.

If this misguided plan has a virtue, it is to expose the institutional self-interest of the BBC.

If so, it appears that the ideal of attaining virtues is misguided.

Only India pretends, by "virtue" of this misguided ban, that they do not have such a problem.

We have come a long way toward becoming a humane society and now, by virtue of group of misguided zealots, we are in grave danger of falling back into savagery.

Hume blames "superstition and false religion" for the misguided view some have that the "monkish virtues" of celibacy, fasting, penance, mortification, self-denial, humility, silence, and solitude are virtues; they are, instead, vices (ECPM 73 74).

[This connection of nature and virtue has] also led to an incredibly misguided emphasis on the importance of individual action.

Amy Peterson is an adjunct faculty member at Taylor University and the author of "Dangerous Territory: My Misguided Quest to Save the World" and "Where Goodness Still Grows: Reclaiming Virtue in an Age of Hypocrisy" (W Publishing, 2020).

Public figures and those conferred "fame" by virtue of their talent, service, sport, or gift are deliberately exploited under the misguided premise that celebrities seek fame, therefore their lives are open season.

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