Sentence examples for uphold virtue from inspiring English sources

The whole issue should've been handed over to a blue-ribbon commission of living, breathing economists — let them draw up a plan and defend it and stand up to the ranters and rug-chewers — and let Congress do what it does best, which is to uphold virtue and decency and to denounce narrow self-interest and partisanship, and then go to lunch.

The core values of Islam are "performing charity, aiding the poor, upholding virtue and condemning evil, pursuing happiness in this life and in the afterlife," and so on.

CRICKET is supposed to uphold the virtue of fair play.

Do we not value good government and private happiness more than the chance to govern ourselves and uphold public virtue?

"The irony is that you have a red-green government in Germany trying to uphold fiscal virtue," said Thomas Mayer, a senior economist at Goldman Sachs in Frankfurt, "while in the United States the Republicans are very comfortable with a large fiscal stimulus".

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.

Nearly all religions uphold the virtue of humility.

The audiences heard appeals from Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi to uphold democratic virtues.

The upside of all this microscopic tomfoolery, besides upholding the virtue of facts, is that now we have a really concrete example of what a controller is and what it does.

He frequently harangued his troops to have faith in the Führer and uphold the virtues of National Socialism.

In Ipuwer, a sage addresses an unnamed king and his attendants, describing the miserable state of the land, which he blames on the king's inability to uphold royal virtues.