Patience is a virtue born of necessity for Vietnamese of Mr. Binh's generation.
The fact that Christians don't currently behead people in the name of Christ is a virtue born of circumstance.
These are counterintuitive, countercultural virtues born out of a grassroots movement that soundly rejected power and aggression, and they all fly straight into the face of the thing Falwell and those like him have built: a perpetually angry, privileged faith forever in search of more real estate and greater dominance.
The greatest engine of social change the world has ever seen is money, and in each of the cases I described, the hot spotters are learning to harness their ideas, born of virtue and altruism, to the more mundane but lasting motives of economics.
Mr. Chang's concept of the foundry was born of an appreciation of both the virtues and limitations of Taiwan.
As recently as July 2014, WND was insisting that "[s]cholarly works cited by the Founders defined it as a citizen at birth by virtue of being born in the country to two citizens of the country, or merely the offspring of two citizens of the country".
But whatever cause he chooses, he said, there remains "this huge chasm of injustice, just by virtue of being born in the wrong place".
For Arendt, the beginning that each of us represents by virtue of being born is actualized every time we act, that is, every time we begin something new.
For example: the number of rings of a tree trunk can give you information about the time when the tree was born in virtue of certain regularities of nature that 'connect' the past and present of trees.
S. Kimberly Belshé, secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, said: "By virtue of being born in the United States, a child is a U.S. citizen.
