While he correlated knowledge with virtue, he similarly equated virtue with happiness.

While the munus itself could be interpreted as pious necessity, the increasing luxuria of munera corroded Roman virtue by encouraging profligacy and the corruptions of self-indulgence: such foreign debaucheries whetted un-Roman appetites.

While Christianity sees modesty as a virtue and pride as sinful, Machiavelli took a more classical position, seeing ambition, spiritedness, and the pursuit of glory as good and natural things, and part of the virtue and prudence that good princes should have.

While it is only one of the terms with which the Pope is referred to as " Vicar ", it is " more expressive of his supreme headship of the Church on earth, which he bears in virtue of the commission of Christ and with vicarial power derived from him ", a vicarial power believed to have been conferred on Saint Peter when Christ said to him: " Feed my lambs ... Feed my sheep " ().

While modern-day Syrians are commonly described as Arabs by virtue of their modern-day language and bonds to Arab culture and history, they are, in fact, largely a blend of the various Aramaic speaking groups indigenous to the region.

While Engels regarded monogamy as a virtue, state and church regulated marriage were to him a form of class oppression.

While the Europeans tried to recreate the virtuous crafts were being replaced by industrialisation, Americans tried to establish a new type of virtue to replace heroic craft production: well-decorated middle-class homes.

While the New England tradition stressed a politically centralized enforcement of moral and religious norms to secure civic virtue, the South Atlantic tradition relied on a decentralized moral and religious order based on the idea of " subsidiarity " ( or localism ).

While they were still on the high seas, in May 1840 Hobson proclaimed British sovereignty over the South Island by virtue of Captain Cook's discovery.

While some philosophers such as Aristotle ( and George Bernard Shaw ) consider pride a profound virtue, some world religions consider it a sin, such as is expressed in Proverbs 11: 2 of the Old Testament.

While one seeks to deter him from the path of virtue by urging the difficulty of it ; the other calls attention to the unnatural character of enjoyment which anticipates the need of it, its want of the highest joy, that arising from noble deeds, and the consequences of a life of voluptuousness, and how she herself, honoured by gods and men, leads to all noble works, and to true well-being in all circumstances of life.

While the state of consecrated life is neither clerical or lay, institutes themselves are classified as one or the other, a clerical institute being one that " by reason of the purpose or design intended by the founder or by virtue of legitimate tradition, is under the direction of clerics, assumes the exercise of sacred orders, and is recognized as such by the authority of the Church ".

While other hardboiled heroes bend and manipulate the law, Hammer often views it as an impediment to justice, the one virtue he holds in absolute esteem.

While the character was kept pure and girl-like onscreen, compromises to her virtue were a challenge.

While modern liberalism had stressed the pursuit of individual liberty as its highest goal, Strauss felt that there should be a greater interest in the problem of human excellence and political virtue.

While in Cobourg, he was not a devoted student: he skipped many classes, and was judged by his classmates to be " intellectually, morally, physically and erratically preeminent in virtue and otherwise, especially otherwise ".

While Burke supported aristocracy, monarchy, and the Established Church, liberals such as Charles James Fox supported the Revolution, and a programme of individual liberties, civic virtue and religious toleration, while radicals such as Priestley, William Godwin, Thomas Paine, and Mary Wollstonecraft, argued for a further programme of republicanism, agrarian socialism, and abolition of the " landed interest ".

While they were still the Official Opposition in the legislature by virtue of having more seats than the Liberals, the NDs ' popular support fell behind the Liberals ( 26 % to the Liberal's 28 %) for the first time in decades.

While citizens of all the Overseas Territories ( except the Sovereign Base Areas ) can now apply for full British citizenship ( and therefore gain right of abode in the UK by virtue of being a British citizen ), British citizens visiting Overseas Territories are subject to local immigration controls.

While Socrates seems to have won the argument, he points to the fact that if all virtue is knowledge, it can in fact be taught.

While W. B. Yeats chose many poets of the Great War generation for The Oxford Book of Modern Verse ( 1936 ), Read arguably stood out among his peers by virtue of the 17-page excerpt ( nearly half of the entire work ) of his The End of a War ( Faber & Faber, 1933 ).

While all citizens share in blame for lax municipal ethics the Wagner regime has seen serious problems in the schools, law enforcement and fiscal policies.

While normative ethics addresses such questions as " What should one do?

While Skywalker and Jade debated the ethics of killing it, the fire of the security systems caused Jade to cut a hole in the wall bordering a lake, drowning the clone.

While the Ten Commandments of Judaeo-Christian ethics are rules of conduct laid down by divine revelation, the Negative Confession is more a divine enforcement of everyday morality.

While on the trail participants learn about ecology, botany, dendrology, geology, hydrology, forestry, soil science, fire ecology, environmental policy, leave no trace principles, environmental ethics, conservation techniques, and wildlife, range, and land management practices.

While the secularized field borrowed largely from Catholic medical ethics, in the 20th century a distinctively liberal Protestant approach was articulated by thinkers such as Joseph Fletcher.

While Jewish feminists are not prominent in ethics per se, the principles of feminist ethics arguably play a pivotal role in the ebb and flow of Jewish denominational politics and identity-formation.

While serving on the House Ways and Means Committee, Davis was the first African American member of Congress to advocate that Committee Chairman Charles Rangel surrender his gavel in the wake of ethics charges.

While their individual adventures do not correspond to each other, the ongoing dynamic of solitary wanderer learning, sometimes through pain and sometimes bemusedly, his new surroundings, while simultaneously teaching his own sense of ethics to those he meets, is consistent.

While his theological works are forgotten, his side-interest in statistics ( and the then-very fashionable view that statistical predictability of social behavior left no space for ethics or God ), and discussions with the then-very deterministically-minded great economist Adolph Wagner let him write a very important work, the Moralstatistik (" Moral Statistics "), in 1868.

While conservative sexual ethics focus on preventing premarital or non-procreative sex, liberal sexual ethics are typically directed rather towards consent, regardless of whether or not the partners are married.

While praising the school for its high academic achievement, Lawrence-Lightfoot noted that ideas like ethics and character were not emphasized as a part of the day to day working of the school.

While pastors like Rauschenbusch were combining their expertise in Biblical ethics and economic studies and research to preach theological claims around the need for social reform, others such as Dwight Moody refused to preach about social issues based on personal experience.

Gallagher played a potential career threat to Tim Robbins ' studio executive in The Player ( 1992 ); the comatose fiancé of Sandra Bullock in While You Were Sleeping ( 1995 ); a real estate salesman having an affair with Annette Bening in American Beauty ( 1999 ); a media executive in Mr. Deeds ( 2002 ); and a political reporter exposing media ethics during a presidential debate in The Last Debate.

While many Christians believe that biblical law is a guide to morality and public ethics, when interpreted in faith, Reconstructionism is unique in advocating that civil law should be derived from and limited by biblical law.

While the transition from city-state to empire affected philosophy a great deal, shifting the emphasis from political theory to personal ethics, Greek letters continued to flourish both under the Successors ( especially the Ptolemies ) and under Roman rule.

While the ad's creators had meant for the voiceover lines to refer to Chrétien's policies and ethics, the intercutting with images of his face focusing on his facial deformity were interpreted by many as an attack on Chrétien's appearance.

While also acting, at least initially, as his therapist, Landy managed Wilson's career between 1983 and 1991, in violation of the ethics code of his profession.

While jury selection was underway, Mirkarimi entered into a plea agreement with the district attorney, pleading guilty to one count of misdemeanor false imprisonment .< ref > San Francisco Chronicle Mayor says he'll suspend Mirkarimi </ ref > On March 20, 2012, Mayor Lee suspended Mirkarimi pending an ethics investigation and appointed Vicki Hennessy as Acting Sheriff .< ref > San Francisco Chronicle Mayor says he'll suspend Mirkarimi </ ref > On July 20, 2012, Mirkarimi was reunited with his wife after a judge lifted the stay-away order originally issued in January 2012 that barred Mirkarimi from contacting her.

While serving on the Council, Adler passed the township ’ s ethics ordinance.

While the ethics of the poverty industry are frequently debated, this is not to say that a business does offer a legitimate service or that all businesses of some type should be considered part of the industry.