This burst of good news shows not only the virtues of flexibility and austerity (a sensitive subject, as other euro countries taste the same medicine); it also gives heart to Latvia and Lithuania.Estonia's GDP growth rate in the first quarter of the year was 8.5%, the highest in the European Union.
The Greeks, and their Roman successors, had a complex purpose in depicting warriors, to convey not only the virtues of warriors themselves but the ideals of Man: proportionality, grace, the brave life, the noble death.
Moreover, building on earlier work by Sosa and Zagzebski on this score, Greco (e.g., 2009) argues that it is only if the virtue epistemological proposal is read in this way that it is able to answer the value problem.
"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues," according to Cicero, a first century Roman philosopher.
Imposing the requirement of a compactly generated future Cauchy horizon has not only the negative virtue of excluding some unsuited candidate time machine spacetimes but a positive virtue as well.
Suthep accuses Thaksin – and by default, his sister Yingluck – of having destroyed not only democracy in Thailand, but the "virtues and ethics of the people".
One of the things I like about it is how clearly it demonstrates that science fiction can have not only the usual virtues and pleasures of the novel, but also the startling and transformative power of the thought experiment.
Listen to the political rhetoric, and you will hear only about the virtues of exports.
If Sarkozy somehow pulls off an upset win, it will mean more of the same European economic orthodoxy — the insistence that fiscal responsibility is the only virtue and austerity the universal answer.
Instead, for Robertson, there was only the appearance of virtue: "Divorce her and start all over again"—start what, exactly, all over again?
In the end, the bill passed only by virtue of the support of the four Labour members.
