Sentence examples for powerful virtues from inspiring English sources

That evil times call for even finer and more powerful virtues.

Though Pope Francis's 12-month forgiveness shindig is unraveling fast, it has at least provided vindication to the growing pro-choice campaigners in the Philippines to enlist one of the most powerful virtues of Catholicism.

Applied to Socrates and the simple God: Socrates is powerful in virtue of exemplifying P1 while God is powerful in virtue of exemplifying P2.

Last week, he told a photographer who was perhaps excessively perfectionist to "just take the fucking picture!" This is the ultimate abuse of authority: someone powerful by virtue of birth abusing someone who holds their position by virtue of ability, knowing they can't respond.

A woman can be powerful by virtue of her personality, sexuality, professional expertise, class, religion, race -- or not, depending on any of those things.

In this case the online commenter is "more powerful" only by virtue of his/her ability to anonymously attack.

When he wants to see Senate Leader John Burton — the single most powerful Democrat, by virtue of his position, longevity, and commitment to a liberal agenda — Schwarzenegger often goes to his office, rather than summoning him.

Since its founding 200 years ago as a breakaway congregation, Abyssinian Baptist Church has built itself into one of the city's most powerful institutions, by virtue of its activist pastors, who have included Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and its congregation, which has long been among the city's largest.

They preach the virtues of powerful new integrated systems that aim to help aspiring companies manage everything from purchasing raw materials to forecasting sales.

The Booklists Ellen Mandel extolled the novel for its "moving and powerful look" at the virtues and vices of human nature and the murky moral choices in conflicts of everyday life.

Franklin D. Roosevelt proved after Pearl Harbor that fear can be a powerful spur to civic virtue.