Sentence examples for virtue against from inspiring English sources

This is not a case of pure democratic virtue against pure authoritarian evil.

The 1896 campaign became, in the Journal, a titanic, circulation-building battle of rural virtue against capitalist rapacity.

Yesterday's boys are today's girls, guarding their sensibilities and their virtue against predatory attack, demanding commitment, affection and babies.

President Kennedy, in the hope of defending virtue against vice, encouraged Floyd Patterson, who had the endorsement of the N.A.A.C.P., to defend his heavyweight title against Sonny Liston, an ex-con, who did not.

The result would be a fairer picture of police behavior than anyone gets from the current system, which pits police self-reports of virtue against the worst horror stories that their critics can dredge up.

According to the show's interpretation of that bloody conflict of the mid-1930s, which pitted political virtue against fascistic evil, the group of New Yorkers it focuses on — whose best-known members became famous as the Abraham Lincoln Brigade — were heroes indeed.

Not long after Watergate, she worried about "over-involvement" and a newspaper's need to guard against "the romantic tendency to picture itself in the role of a heroic and beleaguered champion, defending virtues against overwhelming odds".

Similarly, it is at least an open question whether researchers endorsing differing fundamental units must differ with respect to how they weigh distinct Kuhnian theoretical virtues against one another.

This songbook may be one release in which Mr. Bostridge's most celebrated virtue works against him.

While Conan hacked and slashed his way through a decaying, darkening world, Bilbo, Aragorn, Frodo and Gandalf became paragons of virtue, bulwarks against the quintessential bad guy, Sauron.

The love interest is Anna Antonicheva's pliant Phrygia, and in a series of anguished duets Acosta alternately carries her across his shoulders like the bar of a crucifix, and press-lifts her high above his head - a personal standard of virtue raised against the imperial eagles of Rome.