Sentence examples for virtuous government from inspiring English sources

7 30 P.M. (HBO) ANNA KARENINA (2012) Keira Knightley, above, stars as Anna, the bored wife of a virtuous government official (Jude Law) in mid-19th-century Imperial Russia, who travels from St . Petersburgto Moscow to calm a marital storm in the household of her philandering brother (Matthew Macfadyen) in Joe Wright's stagy adaptation of the Tolstoy novel.

The loyal, bored wife of a dry, virtuous government official (played with heartbreaking tact by Jude Law), Anna travels from St . Petersburgto Moscow to calm a marital storm in the household of her brother, Stiva Oblonsky Matthew Macfadyenn), who has been cheating on his wife, Dolly Kelly MacdonaldDolly Kelly Macdonald

Fighting for the maintenance of the samurai class and a more virtuous government, their slogan was "new government, high morality".

It also proved to have great appeal to voters, who seemed to feel virtuous that the government was paying for its profligate past even as they were running up record levels of consumer debt and driving down their own savings rates to near zero.

For the rest of us, though, Rubio et al. unwittingly symbolize the virtuous potential of government, even if they, themselves, have demagogued and abused it.

With interest rates falling and tax revenue rising, fiscal deficits would fall — kicking off another virtuous circle, as governments would no longer be under pressure to tighten their belts with further rounds of austerity.

But Conservative council leaders like Philip Atkins in Staffordshire, have long stressed the virtuous circle of local government working smarter, forming partnerships and generally delivering better for their council tax payers' money while improving the services they deliver to them.

Financial experts say the central bank's intervention seems to have catalyzed a virtuous circle: As new governments come in and promise to deliver spending cuts, tax increases and balanced budgets, once gun-shy banks have an added incentive to tap new financing from the central bank and jump back into bond markets that they were running from just a few months ago.

But a virtuous circle needed for good government has yet to be closed.

There have been cases when big government has encouraged virtuous behavior (in the U.S. during World War II), and cases when big government has encouraged self-indulgence and irresponsibility (modern Greece).

Under such conditions, Mencius' preachments to the princes on virtuous personal conduct and humane government fell on deaf ears; yet he continued to speak his mind, even though he knew that he was championing an unpopular cause.