Sentence examples for virtue for a from inspiring English sources

Thomas and his supporters had learned from Robert Bork's crashed-and-burned nomination in 1987 that frankness is not a virtue for a prospective justice.

But while faith in a company would seem to be a virtue for a chief executive, few voices of sympathy have been raised for the borrowing believers.

It was considered a virtue for a woman to know 99 ways to cook eggplant, she said, because it was a filling staple and available even when meat was scarce.

And if you believe it is the highest virtue for a person to remain for ever himself, it is hard then to assert that the highest virtue is for a person to be for ever someone else.

This dullness has a virtue for a would-be cartel: it makes it easy to check if rival firms are sticking to the market-rigging plan.With so much theory stacked against the likelihood of price-fixing in groceries, the OFT's unprecedented probe has also drawn unprecedented fire.

Teenagers are known for their susceptibility to the seductions of "sacrificing a life of virtue for a few moments of pleasure" (as it used to be said), but the willingness to sacrifice what is best in Christianity, going back 2,000 years to Jesus himself -- concern for the outsider and especially the religious outcast -- for the pleasures of group prayer before a football game is beyond belief.

Edison2's emphasis on an ultralight but strong vehicle, for instance, has a huge virtue: For any given capacity, a vehicle will weigh only a third as much -- and use not only a third as much fuel but also a third as much steel, plastic, copper, and rare earths.

How is it a signal virtue for an art other than poetry to be poetic?

They are, he said, still under construction and must remain patient – a virtue for which a club that has invested so heavily may not have time.

He had (an optional virtue for writers) an inability to write other than the truth As a poet, he belongs not with the great verban impressarios like Shakespeare and Joyce, but with those great, who Donne and Wordsworth arrive in one's imagination somewhat hobbled by an awkward honesty.

Salmond says: 'Honesty and decency are I think the most important virtues for a political leader.