Sentence examples for virtuous states from inspiring English sources

Virtuous states of mind, but hardly blueprints for action.

Hamilton's assumption of state debt was contentious: virtuous states did not think they should pay for lax ones.

If these do not materialise, there should be a backstop to ensure that they receive at least a basic pension.Americans in virtuous states and cities will be just as furious about their tax dollars flowing to Detroit and other distressed places as Germans are about euros going to southern Europe.

According to Barry moral saints are the mirror images of evil people in the sense that they possess extremely virtuous states of character, i.e., the very best virtues, such as justice and compassion, to an extreme degree.

Until now, the Islamic Republic has had a propaganda heyday among devout Arabs, depicting itself as a virtuous state with a workable level of democracy — just enough to give the regime legitimacy and stability.

Or is the appropriate action just the virtuous action minus the virtuous state of mind?

And in this virtuous state of Florida, the latest moral flavor of the month is a new campaign in the Florida legislature to crack down on the massage parlor industry now flourishing.

Even the Stoics, who notoriously regard all but a virtuous inner state as at best indifferent, would still assign happiness a kind of importance: at the very least, to be unhappy would be unvirtuous; and virtue itself arguably entails a kind of happiness, namely a pleasant state of tranquility.

In spirit, at least, France leaves the directorate of virtuous, solvent northern states that set the terms of the EU's response to join the Club Med problem countries.

Why should we presume that such appointees will be more virtuous than the state comptroller?

They live in a constant state of virtuous denial.