Sentence examples for significant virtue from inspiring English sources

In 1876, James Clerk Maxwell, a Scottish physicist who discovered the principles of electromagnetism, found no significant virtue in the use of pointed lightning rods.

A significant virtue of a forged Kramer knife is that it takes a keen edge, holds it well, yet sharpens easily; one of Kramer's fans, Charlie Palmer, the award-winning chef of the Aureole restaurants, told me that he can revive the edge on his Kramer knife with "literally four or five motions" on a basic water stone (which is about the size of a cribbage board).

The final, and in many ways the most significant, virtue shared by all the Mundo Maya's destinations is their proximity to each other.

The only significant virtue of co-sedimentation assays is that they are very easy to perform.

And I was blind, twenty years ago, to the film's other, and very significant, virtues.

Writing recently about "Hidden Figures," a movie that has significant virtues, I also noted its limitations, and suggested that its blind spots and silences may well be due to the fact that it was directed by a white man.

BAS immunolabeling plays an important role in biosensor field due to their significant virtues including specificity, binding affinity, stability, and signal amplification [19].

But had there been no fact of Dara possessing the property of swimming, the fact that is the proposition that Dara swims would still have existed and sadly would have been false.[15] King claims that his account has several significant virtues.[16] First, on his account it is hard to deny that propositions exist given fairly minimal assumptions; and there is no mystery about what they are.

The report found that the most significant virtues of the potential park were "the clear, sparkling waters, marine life, and the submerged lands of Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.

Among the differences between Kant and Hume on the virtues is the fact that justice is an immensely significant artificial virtue for Hume, but is not treated by Kant as a virtue at all.

None of it makes sense on its own, but it becomes significant by virtue of its recurrence and persistence over time.