Sentence examples for virtues attributed to from inspiring English sources

These former and current National Football League players embody the virtues attributed to the university's mascot, the Ibis, which is described as a bird of courage, knowledge, strength and speed.

In Seneca's hands, clemency constitutes a new expression of the Stoic conception of universal human fellowship while at the same time embodying the ruler's distinctive virtue (it had been one of "the four virtues attributed to Augustus on an honorific shield," as observed by Griffin 2000: 540).

Whether or not they were helpful or harmful under specific circumstances determined if and what virtues were attributed to them.

He also appears as the hero of a history written by his secretary, John Kinnamos, in which every virtue is attributed to him.

"Modest, individualistic, ironic," his book has all the virtues he attributes to the English themselves.

" 'Modest, individualistic, ironic,' his book has all the virtues he attributes to the English themselves," Evelyn Toynton wrote in these pages last year.

More strikingly still, Mr Barnett never pauses to confront the explanatory difficulties presented by the fact that many of the virtues he attributes to West Germany, especially to its schools and technical colleges, were equally present in that less noted powerhouse of industrial performance, the German Democratic Republic.In many ways, the comparative approach of the book is dated.

Attribution theory suggests a self-serving bias in attributions such that success is attributed to internal factors (such as personal virtue), and failure to external or situational factors.

This was attributed to increased iron corrosion by virtue of formation of soluble Fe2+-MO complexes.

Godfrey of Bouillon, the first ruler of crusader Jerusalem, was also depicted as the leader of the crusade from the beginning, and William attributed to him legendary strength and virtue.

For example, his sister's Life recorded that Pascal had an almost obsessive repugnance to any expression of emotional attachment, which Gilberte attributed to his high regard for the virtue of modesty.