Sentence examples for virtues and practices from inspiring English sources

Sport creates a system of values, virtues, and practices that are designed to hierarchically grade people in terms of their (virtuously perfected) inherited traits and glorifies the best specimens as champions.

Rather, it draws on elements of "just peacemaking" but it also would include specific criteria, virtues and practices to which "just peacemaking" does not refer.

The critiques that have been formulated so far are twofold, as the charge that multiculturalism is tantamount to "unfair privileges or invidious forms of discrimination" has been increasingly complemented by the assertion that multiculturalism can erode civic virtues, identities and practices that are necessary for a healthy democracy.

Although the foundation's teaching materials and lectures focus on secular virtues, the vocabulary and practices of the Unification Church creep into the curriculum -- with occasional references to the "true parents" (Mr. Moon and his wife) and ceremonies in which foundation teachers perform mass blessings of marriages.

The comic drama takes on the features of satire as it fixes on professions of virtue and the practices that contradict them.

The character for the virtue of propriety is identical with the one for ritual, reflecting the close connection between this virtue and such practices.

The prominence of a Brahmin in Indian society was directly related to his virtues, values, knowledge and practice of the scriptures.

Individuals would learn and practice virtue in the home, virtue that would not only make them self-sufficient, but also prompt them to feel responsible for the citizens of their society.

This may be the last time for big, bourgeois business and families of inherited privileges to practice the Christian virtues and incidentally, save their necks.

Alcibiades could not practice his master's virtues, and his example of undisciplined and restless ambition strengthened the charge brought against Socrates in 399 of corrupting the youth of Athens.

However, the physicians also recognized the importance of altruism and empathy as traditional medical professionalism virtues and reported that they realize these virtues in practice whenever the sociocultural conditions facilitate it.