The settlers may have written "cowcombers" and "passeneape" for cucumbers and parsnip, but they and their leaders recognized the virtues of the Indians' healthy diet of fish and maize to Elizabethan England's cherished gluttony.
Kennedy called on Americans to recognize the virtue of their Russian counterparts, and thus the universal human interest in peace: "So, let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and the means by which those differences can be resolved.
Regulators should calm down and recognize the virtue of simplicity in the face of complexity.
These benefits must include some primary education for the producer class (see 414d), to make good on the commitment to promote especially talented children born among the producers (415c, 423d) and to enable the producers to recognize the virtue in the philosophers.
This is obviously true of utilitarianism (which hold that what is right maximizes total or average welfare), but even non-utilitarian views must be concerned with welfare, if they recognize the virtue of benevolence, or if they are concerned with the interests of individuals or with avoiding harm to individuals.
Michael McCue, a co-founder and the C.E.O. of Tellme Networks, has also come to appreciate that the most effective way to champion a disruptive technology is to recognize the virtues of diplomacy.
What we can say for certain is only that an ethos that permits us to appreciate the work of modernist painters also lets us recognize the virtues of Gee's Bend quilts, which another era might not have seen.
Their successors in the Russian mafia did, however, recognize the virtues of the G-Wagen, and adopted it -- in black, with blacked-out windows and a big 5-liter V-8 -- as the conveyance for bodyguards who trailed them through Russian streets.
I say it's because we are so divided into religious vs. secular tribes that we don't recognize the virtues and values people from across the political and spiritual spectrum have in common.
The ordered periodic growth and alignment of polymer crystals is recognized as the virtue of molecular origin of extended polymer chains.
