A system with so many sources of data and so many links may yield, by virtue of multiple comparisons, random associations.
The possible mathematical combinations the work yields by virtue of the multi-sided cubes and the grid that holds them speak of a certain intellectual rigor, but are, at the same time, whimsical and playful.
Virtue yielded its reward.
The third driver of change — nearly always overlooked by political scientists — is the tendency of even the best systems to degenerate as rent-seeking special interests grow on the body politic like barnacles on a ship's hull, and civic virtue yields to human frailty.
He then maintains that the relation here is also analytic, though it is less clear how this is so, for it seems rather that the Stoics are advancing the synthetic causal claim that the cultivation of virtue yields happiness.
In late September, plenty of analysts pointed to this rule of thumb as an argument that American shares were cheap.As a relative measure, the earnings yield ratio has the virtue of comparing shares with a riskless alternative, but it is a long way from being an iron law.
Breaking down Tendulkar's game into its constituent virtues yields no clues to the reverence that he drew.
The exercise yielded some 30 virtues, from which he then subtracted any already covered by some other (as honesty is, in his view, by justice).
The new recognition of strangeness and strong feeling as literary virtues yielded various fashions of taste for misty sublimity, graveyard sentiments, medievalism, Norse epics (and forgeries), Oriental tales, and the verse of plowboys.
Since no additional nutrients were added to any of the treatments in our study, reclaimed water plots therefore yielded better growth rates by virtue of their higher nitrogen and possibly sulfate contents compared with fresh water (Table 2).
