What Smith is describing is the ethos that came to be called capitalism.
Belafonte's central conflict is not with any of these individuals but, rather, with the ethos that produced them.
This was the ethos that led working people to form the Labour Representation Committee, which became the Labour party.
These slogans represent the ethos that is taught to every Marine from the youngest trainee at Parris Island, S.C., to the officer candidates at Quantico, Va.
It is akin to an immersion process, so that every child and member of staff shares the ethos that underpins Hobbs's "community".
The ethos that compels us to buy bacon cured from the meat of pigs raised within a 100-mile radius does not reflexively translate into a sense of urgency about how our communities are governed.
An Australian cardinal, George Pell, has been put in charge of cleaning up the Vatican's finances.All that has changed the ethos that prevailed under Benedict XVI, the previous pope.
This is the ethos that is at risk as the civil institutions in which it is realised increasingly come under attack by the real and imagined urgencies of the moment.
Yet it seems to me, on the darkest nights, and sometimes in the clear light of day, that we are now losing the ethos that has sustained what is most to be valued in our civilisation.
Finding a chalet that employs Shinto-Buddhist principles might not be a crucial factor for everyone booking a winter break, but it's the ethos that underpins the new, super-exclusive Hidden Dragon lodge.
