Legal rights are, clearly, rights which exist under the rules of legal systems or by virtue of decisions of suitably authoritative bodies within them.
For the mayor, a champion of the First Amendment who made a fortune on Wall Street and defends its virtues, the decision was even more freighted: just a month ago, he announced that the city would clear the park for cleaning, but backed down after a chorus of political protest and an influx of new demonstrators.
BDO Stoy Hayward, part of BDO International, the world's sixth biggest firm (ie, the biggest outside the Big Five), is making a virtue of its decision to eschew legal services.
On balance, the economy should register higher job growth by virtue of improved decision-making on the part of firms.
It does not seem that an utterance is recognizable as an assertion in virtue of a decision to regard it as subject to this or that norm.
Virtue ethical analyses, decision-making abilities and non-technical communication skills are important as conceptual tools when health workers need to make difficult clinical decisions.
While both voluntourists and medical tourists face new vulnerabilities in virtue of their decision to travel abroad, the types and degrees of vulnerabilities faced by each group will likely be different.
"Today, by virtue of the co-decision procedure, even the most detailed technical decisions... have to be taken at the highest political level in the European machinery," Ms Damanaki complained.
So far the administration has focused too much on the latter.The IMAC approach has the virtue of shielding difficult decisions about cost cutting from petty politics.
The cardinal virtue of last week's decision in Easley v. Cromartie was the way the court interpreted the equal protection clause to keep the political process open.
