Sentence examples for to adopt virtue from inspiring English sources

Most importantly, the human children and the baby robins must learn to adopt virtue and to shun vice.

Every new-economy company is busily working to adopt the virtues of old-economy companies.

Born in Berlin, he has spoken of Croatia's players needing to adopt German virtues of thoroughness and discipline.

We posit: (a) that a society that provides opportunities for virtuous behavior is one that is more conducive to virtuous individuals; and (b) that the practice of effective virtuous behavior may lead to more people adopting virtues as their own, or as attributes of what they see as their self-definition.

Other duties (which form the subject matter of the Doctrine of Virtue) are duties to adopt certain ends.

One of the great and common mistakes in medicine is to adopt the view that health is a virtue, implying that ill health is a vice.

And, I said, these are virtues my business needs to adopt.

(The would-be Presidential candidates in 2016, by virtue of their ambitions, will also have to adopt a public stance).

When he was not talking about the Mets, Valentine was extolling the virtues of Japanese baseball and pushing for Major League Baseball to adopt a stricter stance on drug use.

For more than a decade, officials have touted the virtue of our arms export controls and urged other countries to adopt similar laws and procedures.

In the hopes of quelling "beef tings" while extolling the virtues of all that is "peng", the "popo" have apparently chosen to adopt the language of the street.