By virtue of his self-reliance, his individualism and his freedom from external restraint, the private eye is a perfect embodiment of the middle class conception of liberty, which amounts to doing what you please and let the devil take the hindmost.

The knowledge in virtue of which a man is an historian is a knowledge of what the evidence at his disposal proves about certain events ''.

Since faculty see themselves as self-employed professionals rather than as employees, enthusiasm in a common enterprise is proportionate to the sense of ownership they have in it by virtue of sharing in the decisions that govern its course.

Her pride is as much at stake as her virtue ; ;

A trial of strength, however, is made quite inevitable by virtue of the fact that anyone engaging in non-violent resistance will be convinced that his action is based on sounder values than those of his opponent ; ;

This is a virtue of which we have great need in a society where there seems to be an increasing lack of communication -- or even desire for communication -- between differing schools of thought.

However implausible this is, it is certainly the case that Aristotle's rigid separation of action from production, and his justification of the subservience of slaves and others to the virtue – or arete – of a few justified the ideal of aristocracy.

It is a traditional virtue in many cultures, and a core aspect of various religious traditions, though the concept of ' others ' toward whom concern should be directed can vary among cultures and religions.

This is the Greek ideal of moderation and a virtue that opposes gluttony.

A main idea of Confucianism is the cultivation of virtue and the development of moral perfection.

They attest that whatever we are obliged to do must be possible, and achieving the perfect good of both happiness and moral virtue is only possible if a natural moral order exists.

He accepted that it is not within the power of humans to bring the summum bonum about, because we cannot ensure that virtue always leads to happiness, so there must be a higher power who has the power to create an afterlife where virtue can be rewarded by happiness.

First: it " mandates that whoever is the sovereign of the United Kingdom is also, by virtue of this external fact, sovereign of Australia "; accordingly, changes to British succession laws would have no effect on Australian law, but if the British amendment changed the sovereign, then the new sovereign of the United Kingdom would automatically become the new sovereign of Australia.

He thereby illustrated his own doctrine that it is a divine virtue to sympathize with a friend in his troubles as well as to partake of his joys ( Tan., Wa-yesheb, ed.

Upon his return, the Buddha says, among other things, that Pasenadi is " a friend of virtue, acquainted with virtue, intimate with virtue ", while the opposite is said of the aggressor, King Ajatasattu.

The cliche loses its talismanic virtue in the light of a little history.

but anyone who would put much trust in any phase of Prolusion 6, except its illusive allusiveness deserves whatever fate may be meted out to him by virtue of the egregiously stilted banter.

This system, by virtue of its variety and size, offers an inclusive view of the plan in operation.

Confucianism had its own magic in the idea that virtue had power.

There is a third view that sees merit in both arguments above and attempts to bridge them, and so cannot be articulated as starkly as they can ; it sees more than one Christianity and more than one attitude towards paganism at work in the poem, separated from each other by hundreds of years ; it sees the poem as originally the product of a literate Christian author with one foot in the pagan world and one in the Christian, himself a convert perhaps or one whose forbears had been pagan, a poet who was conversant in both oral and literary milieus and was capable of a masterful " repurposing " of poetry from the oral tradition ; this early Christian poet saw virtue manifest in a willingness to sacrifice oneself in a devotion to justice and in an attempt to aid and protect those in need of help and greater safety ; good pagan men had trodden that noble path and so this poet presents pagan culture with equanimity and respect ; yet overlaid upon this early Christian poet's composition are verses from a much later reformist " fire-and-brimstone " Christian poet who vilifies pagan practice as dark and sinful and who adds satanic aspects to its monsters.

By virtue of its extensive biotechnology sector, its numerous major universities, and relatively few internal barriers, the U. S. has progressed a great deal in its development of BME education and training opportunities.

To govern by virtue, let us compare it to the North Star: it stays in its place, while the myriad stars wait upon it.

In this sea, each electron is free ( by virtue of its wave nature ) to be associated with a great many atoms at once.

" Civilization was not used in its modern sense to mean " the opposite of barbarism "— as contrasted to civility, meaning politeness or civil virtue — until the second half of the 18th century.

Latifah's rap was decidedly anti-drug, while Coldcut's reggae dub-ish instrumental had tongue-in-cheek connotations of marijuana appreciation by virtue of its title.

From the late 1960s until the mid-1970s, MI5 designated CND as subversive by virtue of its being " communist controlled ".

They believe he is the Son of Man, in that he inherited human nature ( with its inclination to sin ) from his mother, and the Son of God by virtue of his miraculous conception by the power of God.

" We seem to be justified in believing it to be true by virtue of our knowledge of what its terms mean.

Each magical item, therefore, is unique by virtue of its history and the scope of its powers.

Rome was the leading Patriarchate of the ancient four by virtue of its founding by Saints Peter and Paul and their martyrdom there, not to mention being the political center of the Roman empire at the time.

As a disco number, the song was unique for its time by virtue of Gaynor's having no background singers.

As the science of distillation advanced from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance period, juniper was one of many botanicals employed by virtue of its perfume, flavour, and purported medicinal properties.

It is exempt from government crackdowns in the Muslim world ( and often in the non-Muslim world ) by virtue of its sacredness.

Civic virtue OCBs include being a good representative of the organization and supporting the organization, especially in its efforts outside of its major business objectives.

Although ancient Greek philosophers believed in individual virtue ethics, philosophers like " Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics not accept the formal principle that whatever the good is, we should seek only our own good, or prefer it to the good of others.

" Moreover, " he basic principle of altruism is that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only justification for his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, virtue or value.

The court ruled in Carpenter: " It is well established, as a general proposition, that a person who acquires special knowledge or information by virtue of a confidential or fiduciary relationship with another is not free to exploit that knowledge or information for his own personal benefit but must account to his principal for any profits derived therefrom.

* lines 14. 107-134 – Avarice has the appearance of a virtue, but it leads to cruel deprivation of one ’ s slaves and one ’ s own self.

The two are similar in many respects, with Mary Magdalene often being viewed as a Christian antecedent of the latter, while Tahirih in her own right could be described as the spiritual return of the Magdalene ; especially given their common, shared attributes of " knowledge, steadfastness, courage, virtue and will power ", in addition to their importance within the religious movements of Christianity and the Bahá ' í Faith as female leaders.

By virtue of self-control God allows humans to shape and morph their lives on their own accord.

It is not possible to me to express the feeling of joy and admiration that I have experimented to the knowledge that Panama, the center of the Universe, is segregated by itself and freed by its own virtue.

If after a due interval they have not reached an agreement they must ask the pope to arbitrate, failing which, he must of his own accord and by virtue of his office decide in favour of one of the claimants.

Since wordplay is often unique to the language in question, translators are faced with a choice of either staying faithful to the original — in this case the English adjective and virtue earnest — or creating a similar pun in their own language.

By the laws of genetic relatedness, one might find a paradox here, in that Fry being his own grandfather means his father is both 50 % related to him ( since he is Fry's father ) and 62. 5 % related to him ( since Fry's father is also his son and the son of Fry's grandmother, who's by virtue of being Fry's grandmother, is 25 % related to Fry ).

By these 2 examples set apart, one is made better aware of the necessity of a greater understanding, of the potential of virtue, as it is paralleled here by both ; in " substance ,' ' actions ' and by the ' Person " of Christ Jesus or The Living Word of God, that each doing their own parts and / or in parallel, act on faith, with virtue and according to Biblical reference, are able to manifest miracles, by the Word of God.

As a novice nun, she feels that she cannot sacrifice her own immortal soul ( and that of Claudio's, if he causes her to lose her virtue ) to save Claudio's transient earthly life.

This device, although it has the important virtue of making the narrative clear and easy to read, tends to falsify the character slightly since uncanny perception where his own feelings are concerned makes him a little less of the ordinary mortal which his behaviour would show him to be.

Princes who rise to power through their own skill and resources ( their " virtue ") rather than luck tend to have a hard time rising to the top, but once they reach the top they are very secure in their position.

Even more unusual, rather than simply suggesting caution as a prudent way to try to avoid the worst of bad luck, Machiavelli holds that the greatest princes in history tend to be ones who take more risks, and rise to power through their own labour, virtue, prudence, and particularly by their ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

Rather, they increase the bulk hardness of the cast iron simply by virtue of their own very high hardness and their substantial volume fraction, such that the bulk hardness can be approximated by a rule of mixtures.

In 1726 he published A letter to a Deist concerning the Beauty and Excellency of Moral Virtue, and the Support and Improvement which it receives from the Christian Religion, chiefly designed to show that, while a love of virtue for its own sake is the highest principle of morality, religious rewards and punishments are most valuable, and in some cases absolutely indispensable, as sanctions of conduct.

The Society looks to Federalist Paper Number 78 for an articulation of the virtue of judicial restraint, as written by Alexander Hamilton: " It can be of no weight to say that the courts, on the pretense of a repugnancy, may substitute their own pleasure to the constitutional intentions of the legislature ....

The novel also includes material from Tang Dynasty poetic works, Yuan Dynasty operas and his own personal interpretation of elements such as virtue and legitimacy.

The service I was so fortunate as to render them they rewarded munificently ; but they did more: when the public cry was raised against me — when the friends of my youth swarmed off and left me alone — the Catholics did not desert me ; they had the virtue even to sacrifice their own interests to a rigid principle of honour ; they refused, though strongly urged, to disgrace a man who, whatever his conduct towards the Government might have been, had faithfully and conscientiously discharged his duty towards them ; and in so doing, though it was in my own case, I will say they showed an instance of public virtue of which I know not whether there exists another example.