Sentence examples for to this virtue from inspiring English sources

Yet he draws no attention to this virtue: he makes it feel merely inevitable.

To which she replied, 'Well, he is persistent.'" To this virtue we might add, on the devil's behalf, the virtues of consistency, industry, and imagination, all of which Peters describes as character traits.

Yes, America hasn't always lived up to this virtue, but with every positive court ruling, with every change of heart and mind, we're getting closer.

"Prior to this virtue story, other economists, such as Doug North and Brad DeLong, were showing us how important property rights, the rule of law and even Protestant institutions were to economic growth in northern Europe," Brat continued.

To acquire this virtue, followers are encouraged to enter into the "long and exacting work" of self-mastery that is helped by friendships, God's grace, maturity and education "that respects the moral and spiritual dimensions of human life".

NEW DELHI — The Indian National Congress, which has governed India and several Indian states for most of the nation's modern history, benefits from its image as a moderate political party that believes in something honorable called "secularism" and, to uphold this virtue, fights zealots and dangerous madmen.

As a mother, I've worked hard to instill this virtue in my own children.

There is no better place to learn this virtue than in a hectic preschool environment, where everything is shared and civility and manners are both taught and learned organically.

By putting our daughter in charge of her finances early on, we hope to instill this virtue in her by letting her see firsthand the true value of money.

However, it is difficult to apply this virtue-ethical assumption to the artificial virtues, because the good motive operative in their instance is the conscientious desire to do one's duty or what is right or obligatory.

It's odd to have to call attention to this minor virtue, since it's a baseline quality of cinematic ethics — but it makes for a significant and dismaying contrast with the grandly catastrophic set piece that bookends it, near the end of the film, in which En Sabah Nur, a.k.a. the eponymous Apocalypse himself, does his best to apocalyze the world, with particular attention to New York.