Sentence examples for virtue to demonstrate from inspiring English sources

Perhaps you were actually trying to "signal your virtue" – to demonstrate your social superiority by picking a fancy-sounding, but useless, degree.

In 2011 the Vickers report argued that banks should be required to 'ring-fence' their deposit-taking retail operations by 2019, in order to protect taxpayers in the event of another financial crisis Did you choose that arts degree to "signal your virtue" – to demonstrate your social superiority by picking a fancy-sounding, but useless, qualification?

Therefore, in an era of accountability, public involvement in research issues and growing competition for contributions, some medical charities see the virtue in being able to demonstrate the outcomes of the research they fund.

One of the main virtues of "John Rabe" is to demonstrate that, however much we know about the worst of all wars, it still has little-known corners that can amaze us.

By virtue of (4.12), it remains to demonstrate that.

Obama's address sought to demonstrate the virtue of a muscular but restrained approach.

America also has state governments, which can act alone or in concert to demonstrate the virtues of progressive politics.

We caught up with Mr. Dukakis on the streets of Boston yesterday as he was leading a couple of dozen people on foot to the convention hall to demonstrate the virtues of walking.

Contemptuous of politicians, C.E.O.s, and marketers who use "words not for communicating ideas but concealing them," Evans rewrites health-insurance policies, governmental reports on terrorism, and even Jane Austen, in order to demonstrate the virtues of concision and clarity.

She dreamed of a stage career, but the boards she trod at first proved to be those of the North Metropolitan Electric Power Supply Company, where she was asked to demonstrate the virtues of an electric kitchen to women hitherto chained to coal-burning ranges or monstrous gas stoves.

We need to demonstrate the virtues of temperance and self-reflection in our use of humor.