Sentence examples for virtues of getting from inspiring English sources

As cellphones and social media expose the clergy to new dimensions of stress, and as health care costs soar, some of the country's largest religious denominations have begun wellness campaigns that preach the virtues of getting away.

Instead of earnest entreaties for listener donations to public radio, we hear Abumrad's reasonable voice extolling the virtues of getting fifty per cent off on made-to-measure premium suits.

A young musician who skipped psychiatric care to tune in to Cocker's 6 Music show (and who wonderfully describes D-major 7th as a "not quite happy" chord) extols the virtues of getting mugged in Sheffield, rather than London, because "in Sheffield you usually know the people who are mugging you".

In the heady and distant days of plans to have Eurostar trains coming directly from France to Manchester via Crewe, Cheshire schoolchildren took part in art competitions, producing wonderful colourful paintings, based on French artists' styles, extolling the virtues of getting on a train in Crewe and getting off at some exotic place like the south of France.

By offering workshops and courses on work-life balance, Thrive is teaching companies like Accenture and J.P. Morgan the virtues of getting rest.

It's creepiest manifestation, perhaps, was revealed in early 2008 when a mother and her daughter unwittingly discovered secret messages woven into the fabric of Lululemon products that appeared to extol the virtues of getting high and having multiple orgasms.

Because, in addition to the simple virtue of getting bills right, smart meters have another advantage: they improve energy efficiency and cut bills.

Even private-sector challengers acknowledge it is well-run.Few question the virtue of getting more goods onto rail, but efforts to do so have been mixed.

If nothing else, as James Vince might note, it shows the virtue of getting a pad in the way as a second line of defence.

Phrenology, the original Bumpology, at least had the virtue of getting people to think about "cortical location," imagining, for the first time, that the brain might indeed be mapped into areas.

But tax cuts have the virtue of getting into the economy more quickly than money for new construction projects, because even "shovel ready" projects often take months to get started.