Sentence examples for virtuous if it from inspiring English sources

But the conversation will only be virtuous if it is solidly based in facts, laws and principles, and if it is conducted with honesty about the effects of past and proposed courses of action.

Thanks to all that, people in poor places would have less reason to move to Europe's rich north; in various ways, the EU was coming to them.Now that virtuous circle, if it ever really existed, is badly frayed.

Or virtuous if you donate it back to the movement.

Their dietary restrictions commonly cause sufferers to feel proud of their "virtuous" behaviour even if it means that eating becomes so stressful their personal relationships can come under pressure and they become socially isolated.

In any case, she said, such efforts are "microscopic" compared with the large numbers of people who continue to see weight "as almost like a moral issue -- it's like you're virtuous if you restrain yourself and you're sinful if you give in".

At the same time as it evokes a sense of loss over the decline of an idea of Britain and the British, it is both reassuring and flattering, implying a virtuous (if highly self-aware) consumer stoicism.

Eating sprouts is made all the more virtuous if you have grown them yourself, which is where this clever device comes in - it allows you to produce your own sprouts in even the most cramped kitchen, and ensures that they stay well drained and must-free.

Eliminating a tyrant is not virtuous if one is knowingly creating even greater conditions of disorder and destruction.

The cycle that sets in can be described either as virtuous (if you're a beverage company) or vicious (if you're anyone else).

Oh, they have sweet potatoes, but a sweet potato is to its distant relative the potato as an art-song recital is to "American Idol": far more virtuous, if nowhere near as popular.

Accordingly an action is virtuous if performed by a virtuous person.