Corporations doing major business in the United States should by virtue of their conduct be deemed United States companies and pay their full fair share of income taxes.
Coward could declare, "To me, the essence of good comedy writing is that perfectly ordinary phrases such as 'Just fancy!' should, by virtue of their context, achieve greater laughs than the most literate epigrams".
Perhaps it's to be expected that a movie about N.W.A. that was co-produced by Dre, Ice Cube, and the widow of Eazy-E — Eazy died in 1995, of AIDS — should ascribe virtue and clear-minded intention to decisions that may have resulted from impulse or experimentation.
Upholding the state's right to execute a mentally impaired man named Jose Garcia Briseno despite the Supreme Court's prior ruling, a Texas appeals court observed in 2004: Most Texas citizens might agree that Steinbeck's Lennie should, by virtue of his lack of reasoning ability and adaptive skills, be exempt.
Socrates nevertheless has strong opinions about virtues, opinions that guide his search for definitions for example, that courage is noble (Laches 193d) and that we should pursue virtue above all else.
Wollstonecraft's leading ambition for women was that they should attain virtue, and it was to this end that she sought their liberation.
Berman's work and influence, if not so widely known before, should by virtue of "Pacific Standard Time" become a part of our modern canon.
We need reform and should make a virtue of that.
"So yes, I should make a virtue of my age".
Tragedy, in the view of Fontenelle or the Abbé Dubos, should teach men virtue and humanity.
