Sentence examples for out of virtue from inspiring English sources
Some critics (e.g. Roberts and Wood 2007) complain that Zagzebksi's view is uninformative because we lack an adequate understanding of what it is to believe "because of" or "out of" virtue.
It's really important, but not out of virtue or duty: I just think it is so interesting.
The count follows the "family tradition" of "largess" out of virtue and conviction: "It is the profoundest and noblest desire of the common people to know that the mighty are just and noble.
Handed the untrammeled reins of power, it is more than likely that Hobbes would have ended up making a virtue out of tyranny, Rousseau a tyranny out of virtue, and Locke, a closet anarchist … actually, on that basis, I'd vote for Locke.
On Zagzebski's view, acting out of virtue requires your action to be virtuously motivated.
With Brazil as the flagship, the region has chosen exchange rate stability to face the external shocks generated by the Asian crisis — not out of virtue but out of sheer political need.
And the master virtue of bringing practical reasonableness into all one's deliberations, choices, and carrying out of choices — the virtue of prudentia, a virtue both intellectual (of one's intelligence) and moral (of one's whole will and character) — is part of the definition, content, and influence of every other moral virtue: ST I-II q. 65 a. 1, q. 66 a. 3 ad 3, etc.
He stood out, of course, by virtue of the fact that he was dressed entirely in black and wore a large Texan hat, also black.
The detection of MUC1 could be carried out by virtue of switching structures of aptamers from DNA/DNA duplex to DNA/target complex.
Logical reasoning with diagrams is often carried out in virtue of their depiction of all possible models of a situation, up to topological equivalence of the diagrams (this, of course, depends on the particular diagrammatic system in use).
"It makes sense to file a protective claim to avoid losing out by virtue of the statute of limitations expiring," said Marcus Owens, a lawyer who formerly headed the I.R.S. division that oversees nonprofit groups.
