Sentence examples for winning virtue from inspiring English sources

Patience is a winning virtue.

Eligible Charities will not have a greater chance of winning by virtue of submission of multiple nominations – it is the quality and content of the nominations that matters, rather than the quantity.

At one end of the stereotype are the traditional gamers arguing over increasingly obscure interpretations of the rules and turning to manuals thicker than a phone book to arbitrate; at the other end are the video gamers, dazzled by bright lights, surrounded by mountains of technology, and winning by virtue of reaction times rather than any actual thinking.

YouGov wins by virtue of having the last say.

Insofar as the hosts sought to determine the greenest mode of transport, the car won by virtue of its lower pollution profile.

The Parisians earned their win by virtue of their better haul from kicks at goal, with Gaëtan Germain booting four penalties and Olly Barkley one, while Edinburgh's reply came from Piers Francis.

He found that Mr. Romney probably would have won, by virtue of narrow victories in the new tipping-point states of Susquehanna (which consists of portions of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Maryland) and Pocono (formed from rural and suburban portions of present-day Pennsylvania and New York).

My companions in the nonsmoker were a woman from one of the region's Indian tribes with her baby, a family from Prince Edward Island headed to visit friends in Labrador City, and a middle-aged man from Maryland who was taking part in an international ham radio contest, which he was convinced he was going to win by virtue of the remoteness of his base of operations.

The positions in the final sprint decided the standings and in a race of 25km it meant Trott won by virtue of the final couple of yards.

The FLt20 champions won by virtue of losing fewer wickets after Neil Carter's failure to score a single off the last ball left the scores tied.

But stand-in captain Sangakkara shared a stand of 141 with Thilan Samaraweera to earn Sri Lanka a draw, handing England a 1-0 series win by virtue of their victory in the first Test in Cardiff.