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Or does mere public belabouring sometimes debase the very virtues intended for promotion and inoculate public sentiment against subscription?
They meditate whether the virtues of the one will exalt or diminish the force of the other, or correct any of its nocent qualities.
For junior officers to become good officers, they must acquire the necessary virtues.
It was surely not wetness, as the incoming president termed their traditional virtues of niceness and fairmindedness.
So long as the populace preserved republican virtues, Whigs saw hope in an emerging industrial nation.
Hegel, for example, while not defending war, observed that it was the nursery of the heroic virtues.
Whereas among the Greeks the primary virtues were practical wisdom, self-restraint, justice and courage, for Paul the primary virtue was agape.
Human nature has to be ordered and realized in actual human virtues before the child truly enters the social world.
Part of the problem with kindness and compassion is that they often present as weak and empty virtues.
Not the least of their virtues is that they are written at a cracking pace.
Fulfillment of these three virtues enables monastics to witness the beauty of being, regenerated in the light of God's love.
That form extolled the virtues of the natural environment that labourist growth was threatening.
There was an intimate relationship between the virtues of a society and the virtues of the people in it.
The main problem with such TV altercations is that they pretend to be about openness and honesty but in fact embrace no such virtues.
The early Republican ideal of the yeoman farmer was giving way to the virtues of urban capitalism and concern for, or fear of, the urban masses.
The virtues of individualism and self-reliance seemed compromised in a world of corporate power and urban throngs.
Hunting celebrated the imperial virtues of courage and manliness and confirmed the power of colonial rule.
Exercise gets a wholehearted thumbs-up from our panelists, who praise the anti-aging virtues of strength training in particular.
No longer are you just up against the straight-A kid who lettered in four sports and whose minister wrote a letter praising his virtues.
He gives them the single best reason to extort the virtues of the death penalty over a life sentence.
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Her advice to the youth on the virtues of hard work and diligence won a hearty round of applause.
Some openly praised the virtues of aristocracy, though they made clear that they opposed hereditary aristocracy.
Western images serve as shorthand images of patriotism, democracy, rugged individualism, and a host of other virtues.
Well, just as the lotus is undeniably a special flower, so the lotus position does have its virtues.
He really didn't want to discuss the virtues and vices of having a female body at one's disposal with his far more hormone-driven best friend.
Some of their own professors in the past might have seen such virtues as expensive luxuries.
In this historical context, the director's main aim is to remind the audience of virtues such as coherence, austerity, passion and faith.
He extolled the virtues of Aranda belief, and disdained the modern world that had replaced traditional sanctities.
When it comes to playing Liszt satisfactorily, far more virtues are required than mere courage.
Offered between courses, small food serves as a makeshift tasting menu and has additional virtues that shouldn't go unnoticed, as well.
The schoolboys of classical Athens memorized the Homeric passages that taught the classical virtues.
The audience had already listened to a Scotswoman extol the virtues of her business.
Tolkien depicts the natural virtues as perfected and fulfilled by the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity.
Using the Creed and the Lord's Prayer as his guides, Augustine discusses the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love.
But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues.
Too bad his son inherited his mother's virtues of pettiness and badger-like meanness.
It represents the cosmopolitan virtues of tolerance and aesthetic discrimination.
The opening sections read more like a self-help manual, espousing the virtues of self-employment for spiritual growth.
It is a community rather less motivated by tolerance, acceptance and the virtues of selfless denial.
The positive tribal virtues were absolute loyalty and obedience to tribe and king, and pride in their achievements.
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These placed an emphasis on the role of charity in encouraging moral regeneration and on the virtues of self-reliance and respectability.
Thus, one might cultivate and exercise virtues such as self-restraint for the sake of goods, such as a rich and vibrant marriage.
Whatever the virtues of his output heretofore, Copland could certainly not be called a melodist.
Through the menstrua gold does not acquire any other virtues than those it already has.
As we survey these beauties and discuss their medicinal virtues, please do not get too carried away with notions of utilitarianism.
He was the son of a Baptist preacher who sermonized about the virtues of the free market.
Keith specialised in depraved characters who committed acts of extreme brutality while sermonising on the virtues of a good and moral life.
The seven deadly sins and their antitheses, the four cardinal virtues and three heavenly graces, provide the book's organising principle.
Writers record the deeds and virtues of Somali sheiks, or religious leaders, some with miraculous powers.
He talked a lot about the virtues of tolerance and fair play, but nobody had a clue what he was on about.
Roman writers, too, had contrasted the corrupt town with the purer virtues of country living.
You don't even need to skip around to sing this album's virtues, you can just go down the track list in order.
Humility is the finest of all virtues and is the source of all admirable character traits.
Those moving away were sometimes dismissed as a shiftless lot who could not live up to the small-town virtues of constancy and forbearance.
Thrift is the bleakest of all the virtues, especially in an era of consumerism, credit cards, and shopaholics.
Parents may say that we believe in certain values and virtues, but fail to show them forth in our lives.
No, it could be argued that when it comes to the national team we are guilty of the contrary virtues of patience, moderation, and restraint.
But faith in the classical virtues of decorum and modesty remained with him until his death.
Girls are expected to display a number of feminine virtues, particularly modesty and chastity.
I think it is significant that you use the apt example of the trustingness of a baby when you speak of the virtues of trust.
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He was probably a private tutor who taught the sons of gentlemen the virtues proper to the ruling class.
The cardinal virtues enable leaders to habitually incorporate moral principles in their behaviour.
If a lie in itself only constitutes a venial sin, it becomes mortal when it does grave injury to the virtues of justice and charity.
But ever since the trio set up shop in a Bloomsbury brownstone two years ago, they've been preaching the virtues of unknowing.
His list of virtues is a remarkably unaggressive, uncompetitive, one might almost say womanly list.
I could extol the virtues of this lady and her approach to life unendingly but I suggest instead you read it for yourself.
An uncomfortable place that would force us to learn about our mutual dependence and unlearn patriotic virtues.
One time, a chassid who was a diamond merchant asked the rabbi what virtues he saw in these unlearned people.
It is like writing about the virtues of a preacher who keeps carelessly getting himself arrested in bordellos.
Despite their unprepossessing looks, bull terriers have many attractive virtues.
His unselfish and noble virtues have earned him huge respect across all shades of political opinion.
Possessed of many virtues, in most ways a grown-up, she is soft at the center, a pushover.
However, you are right to say that of the war poems in existence many celebrate soldierly virtues.
The Pagan literature aimed at beginners, the vast majority of whom are solitaries, always praises the virtues of an outdoor ritual.
If self-restraint at the feast isn't one of your virtues, a walk in the brisk air may help undo what you've overdone.
Whatever its technological virtues, the shuttle will probably be the last attempt to build a multi-purpose spaceplane.
Needless to say, to successfully achieve such remarkable feats required all four of the above virtues in spades.
As ever, it's our pastimes' deepest virtues that incite the most venomous evangelical slander.
Whatever virtues the Mayans might have had, predicting the future seems an unlikely one, which is something the speculators should realize.
It finds expression in acts of particular virtues or vices like honesty, generosity, cheerfulness, jealousy or cruelty.
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Sycophants tend to lavish non-existent virtues on their leader, who may only be a novice.
For virtue ethics, the problem concerns the question of which character traits are the virtues.
Suddenly those virtues of steadfastness, commitment and long service as embodied by the Queen appear to be fashionable again.
The survey has been conducted in conjunction with the Daily Telegraph, which has been in the town taking pictures to extol Skipton's virtues.
For many years now my bargain-hungry brethren have been extolling the virtues of car boot sales.
Mr Derbyshire refers to Bolton street lights being powered by Welsh wind farms, and thereby extols their virtues.
I am sick of the amassed forces of TV punditry extolling the virtues of the Brazilian style of football.
In poetic words of dazzling imagery, the bards extolled the tribal virtues of honour, courage, generosity, fidelity and revenge.
However when asked to elaborate what the real issues were, he declined to comment, and instead extolled the virtues of his new buffalo.
But how many commentaries have you read that actually knowledgeably extol the virtues of this ancient culture?
It is obviously inapplicable to substances whose virtues depend in any considerable degree upon readily volatilizable constituents.
At a time when recordings are showing the virtues of an airy, singer-centered style in Handel, the old square rhythm is hard to support.
I will not judge any of them for it is not my place to judge the sins and virtues of my fellow man.
Monarch of the Glen is nothing less than a heroic portrait, in which the stag transcends the animal world to embody virtues of a higher order.
But nowhere are the vitality and virtues of his boyhood locality celebrated more compellingly than in this novel about a national nightmare.
Often, such literature is not hagiography, but presents life that falls short of human virtues.
As a paragon of the virtues that folk music holds in its cultural armoury, June Tabor must surely rate as number one.
A callow president had the sense to surround himself with people who had three great virtues.
St. Thomas Aquinas taught that a person who is in a state of grace is open to the virtues and gifts that God has poured out.
Auguste Escoffier invented the French haute cuisine and extolled its virtues throughout Europe.
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This unity in the soul is related to another widely held Stoic teaching, i.e., the unity of the virtues.
Finally, notice that it's only if we reject moral relativism that we are free to promote tolerance and open-mindedness as universal virtues.
Unfortunately, the virtues of Art Since 1900 are accompanied by equally striking flaws.
Slowly and struttingly did the man of two virtues perform the whole pilgrimage of Oxford-street.
The caricature was accompanied by doggerel verse which used Mr. Tolley's name and extolled the virtues of the chocolate.
The biblical virtues of modesty, chivalry, chastity and fidelity are ignored.
Their plain virtues and homespun beliefs are the bedrock of decency and integrity in our nation and in the world.
In the middle ages, pastel leaves were applied in poultice for their cicatrising virtues.
Materialistic values were far stronger among young people than civic virtues.
Throughout classical literature, the virtues of peace were extolled, and the evils of war denounced.
When the Prison Commission discussed the virtues of parole it invoked ideas of mercy and clemency.
But, ironically, so many football coaches do deeply believe that the toughest sport teaches virtues.
But his teams are, as everyone knows, a mirror of the man with all his failings and virtues.
However, in filmmaking, honesty and immediacy are not virtues but strategies.
Kraynak's hostility toward skeptical and individualistic liberalism inclines him to overlook the virtues of democracy.
However, one of the virtues of supremacy is that the opinions of others are rendered inconsequential.
A younger man could be pursued by an older man, who acted as teacher and inculcator of key virtues.
The author's indebtedness to Greek ethics can be seen even more clearly in his discussion of the natural virtues.
Through our bad parenting, which sets wrong examples, we have institutionalized insensitivity and indecency and made them virtues.
Thus, appealing to the virtues in wartime can, in my view, contrast very poorly and inefficaciously with citing rules understandable by all.
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Magnanimity and compassion are my favourite virtues, but realism is close behind.
It is always the story of those upholding higher human virtues locked in battle against the wicked and the iniquitous.
Returning to Australia and discovering the inland in a series of visits as a journalist, he idealised the virtues of the bushman.
In any particular situation, the virtuous person acts in such a way that he instantiates all of the relevant virtues.
A congenial man with a neatly trimmed white beard, he's a classic civic booster who loves to extol his hometown's virtues.
He is 18 and has time on his side, but as we have seen in the intemperance of his play, patience is not one of his virtues.
In the Byzantine intercessional liturgy the two virtues that were mentioned in commemoration for the emperor were orthodoxy and piety.
Faithfulness, dedication, constancy and humility are some of the virtues needed to pray well.
Without this, talk about the virtues of flexibility and corrigibility remains pointless.
Many noted that the fraternity served the churches through its inculcation of moral virtues and brotherly love.
From the start, Holliday and his team have made decisiveness one of their cardinal virtues.
He was a declinist who thought that capitalism's destructive energies would sweep away the heroic virtues that built it.
For all of its many virtues, this literature has generally privileged issues of rights and citizenship over commerce and sociability.
In a country that promotes the virtues of the free market, he died for the benefit of the war profiteers and for very little benefit to himself.
Their virtues and social responsibility can be demonstrated through their contributions.
Submitting to the Lord's will, the mortal is blessed with all virtues and gnosis and he obtains honor in the Lord's court.
Understanding the intellectual virtues this way, we can go on to define a number of important deontic properties of belief.
It will be a supreme test of the virtues of public ownership over privatisation.
First, a piece of paper landed on my desk extolling the virtues of good old-fashioned baking.
I fed his curiosity, for it allowed me to praise the goodness and virtues of my people.
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She would never regard the frontier as the breeding ground of puritan virtues.
He will be remembered by those who worked with him as a man of integrity, dignity and honesty, and he had many other virtues as well.
Simplicity and directness are generally regarded as cardinal virtues in American peace leadership.
The virtues sought in a deputy are sometimes quite divergent from those sought in a leader.
Many great scholars, scientists, and educators have notoriously lacked the civic virtues by being resident aliens, cosmopolitans, or epicureans.
Its fruit is the acquisition of the virtues, divinising love and the joy which cannot be severed from these.
I've analyzed the pluses and minuses of dyeable bridesmaid shoes, the virtues of a detachable veil and the benefits of buttercream frosting.
But for one shining moment, there was that first album, and on its virtues even dopers and beer-hounds could agree.
Liberalism's virtues are expounded with elegance, and at times a rather terse satirical cut.
A country in which the martial virtues are extinguished cannot hope to be respected while the world remains a polyglot chaos of peoples.
Even when extolling the virtues of Linux as a server, the praise is often followed with a few discouraging warnings.
You travel the world praising the discreet charm of an ancient university and extolling the virtues of academic freedom.
Managing to maintain a serious voice throughout, she extols the virtues of the flea in a spooky monotone.
At a time when so many carpet-makers are turning to artificial dyes, he extols the virtues of the old ways.
Glock, for example, extols the virtues of conducting qualitative interviews in preparation for a survey for precisely this kind of reason.
And he still extols the virtues of his central defensive partner but is more self-reliant.
His books have none of the Gallic virtues of irony, juridical dryness and clarity of prose.
Those absolutists who extol the virtues of free trade without addressing its costs are urging us to build an incomplete trade policy.
Taylor's picture provides a credible analysis of the vices and virtues of the modern naturalization of the cosmos and of our tendency to think that values are subjective.
Brilliant as an exponent of the virtues in Spenser, Dante, Chaucer, Lewis could not write his own poetry.
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Honesty and plain speaking are not virtues for politicians and diplomats.
By preventing pollution at source, conserving water and restoring valuable nutrients to nature's lifecycle, the WCT's virtues are attracting converts around the world.
The administration that sold itself on simple homespun values and manly virtues has been caught in an act of waspish backstabbing to cover its dishonesty.
And the people themselves can do it, abdicating the virtues and responsibilities of citizenship.
Though virtues of character are acquired from habitual practice and intellectual virtues through rational exercise, the two kinds are yet closely related.
I cannot see any objection to them serving on H.M. ships where they are qualified and needed, or, if their virtues so deserve, rising to Admirals of the Fleet.
Yet, you continue to espouse the virtues of this failed experiment.
And he, whatever his considerable virtues, is no down-the-line progressive, much less a legislator in the Wellstone mode, eager to grapple with the very premises of the age.
Since this difference of aspect in the object differentiates the species of virtue, it seems that dulia is divided into specifically different virtues.
Nevertheless, Stakhanovism emerged as a movement based on the virtues of working really hard for really long hours, in exchange for the satisfaction of doing so.
If enlightened despotism was a passing fancy, it must also be admitted that not all the philosophes agreed with the virtues of political liberalism either.
In those days, his stilted style, forced delivery, and wonky timing were virtues, reinforcing our sense of his hypothetically heartwarming kidness.
To be able to interact consistently with these children, he turns to the virtues of compassion, generosity, mindfulness, love, and the transcendence of ego.
He should have such virtues as compassion, love, generosity, and altruism.
Customers are being strongly recommended to approve the plan by a management team which only a matter of months ago was extolling the virtues of mutuality.
Beanie objectifies and degrades women and preaches the virtues of hustling, macking, gun-toting, drug dealing and pot smoking with the best of them.
Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of his virtues.
The solution to this mutation of complex growth is to go back to basics, to the old virtues we know, the respect for individual countries and their mores and manners.
The frugal virtues of Buddhism and Jainism were rejected and followers were encouraged to reject all religious observances and make the most of life's pleasures!
The Virgin Mary could be tolerated for her merciful, loving, consolatory virtues if only one didn't at the same time have to buy into her passivity and sexual repressiveness.
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Maybe we will start to extol new heroes for new virtues, for craft or soul or something else.
Instead, he surprised the crowd by praising his five billionaire witnesses, extolling their virtues and their profits.
Its benefits have been so incontestable that in the five millennia since the advent of the written word numerous poets and writers have extolled its virtues.
Here was worthiness by association, a father judged by the virtues of the son.
From the highest to the lowest in rank, the orders are seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominions, virtues, powers, principalities, archangels, and angels.
By emphasizing this resistance and the equivocal devices of Homer's archetypal wanderer, Walcott is delineating latent virtues in predecessors of his Creole protagonist.
He frequented Turkish baths and commented in his diaries of the physical virtues of sailors.
Counsel for respondent has recalled to us the virtues of self-reliance and frugality.
We recognize that wise statesmen resist the temptation to use power promiscuously, and we stress the virtues of prudence, and self-restraint, in foreign policy.
In spite of her fervent devotion to the virtues of participatory democracy, localism and the educational imperative, the works only partially exhibited these principles.
Their mantra was echoed in the glowing reports of the critics and guidebooks, all of which unanimously extolled the place's virtues in worryingly breathless prose.
If heathen philosophers grasped something of the three transcendentals and of the law of human nature, they grasped nothing of these three virtues.
Leaders improvised eloquent orations referring to the usual civic virtues.
Virgil's purpose was moral, and his main concern is to describe the farmer's virtues of austerity, integrity, and hard work, which made Rome great.
Even those who feared its corrosive effects on private and public morality found themselves having to concede its associated virtues as well as vices.
But if many virtues are inaccessible to an autist, so too are many vices.
Then they compounded the offense by suggesting that South Carolina Republican Senator Jim DeMint shares those Hebraic virtues.
He niftily circumvents the real issues, to do with educational content and assessment, and instead focuses on the abstract virtues of cleverness and hard work.
Every people has its own Tartuffery and calls it its virtues.
Gone are the days when virtues like faith, patience, temperance, knowledge, virtue, godliness, brotherly kindness and love, once fuelled our moral tanks.
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Time and again we seek in our sport the consolation of the old values and virtues that were once the only social cement that held Ireland together in the worst of times.
If it turns out that both determinism and indeterminism have these three intellectual virtues, can we come to a judgement about which one has the crowning virtue?
Faith, hope, and love are the Church's traditional theological virtues.
His redeeming virtues are his sardonic wit, polymathic range, good literary style, and his fearlessness.
Knowledge and strength are greater virtues than humility and submission.
By the end of his culinary voyage Steingarten felt he was able to make the finest distinctions between the virtues of any and every fried drumstick.
While it's no surprise that this script is based on Nelson's own play, given the perfectly measured arguments, the film is never short on cinematic virtues.
That sparked the Herald writer to extol the virtues of the car.
Great thinkers throughout history have extolled the virtues of doubt.
Saints must have lived an exemplary life, displaying the virtues of prudence, temperance, fortitude and justice, as well as showing faith, hope and charity.
Every week, he pined for a sellout, selling the virtues of a good crowd like a high-school coach, hoping that filled stands would raise the stakes in the 50-50 raffle.
But rather than target individual lawmakers, they sold voters a bill of goods about the virtues of putting limits on how long anyone can serve in certain elected positions.
The story that I want to tell is the story of liberty, equality and fraternity, which seemed to me to be the governing virtues of the order today.
She is familiar on these shores as a daytime television regular where she extols the virtues of expat life under the Mediterranean sun to more than a million viewers a day.
The priest was summoned to give Paddy a dressing down about some mischief he had been getting into and to extol the virtues and benefits of living a good life.
A finely-crafted use of sequence is one of Mozart's outstanding virtues.
He began his programme by extolling the virtues of Swindon, and then moved on to a self-written humorous cry about the misuse of the English language.
Ironically, the luxury SUV looks pretty darned good when viewed that closely, but when I pull back for the macro view I find some annoying flaws and noteworthy virtues.
In letters to Theo, Vincent would preach to younger brother the virtues of life.
We then get homiletic lectures on the virtues of Shakespeare, English and the royal family before selected detainees launch spontaneously into a retelling of Pericles.
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How could a man who so clearly extolled the virtues and simplicity of the continental structure in its early days seem so utterly clueless about it?
He was also encouraged to display the virtues of chivalry, a code of conduct created by the clergy to curb the brutality of this order of knights.
Mr Bolton is eager to extol the virtues of geographical studies.
When they tout the virtues of this doctrine, they are being insincere.
The government defended its decision by pointing to the virtues of informality and expeditiousness, plus full investigatory rather than adjudicatory powers.
But surely, many of the men who fought on the Western Front manifested equal virtues.
It is said that 2 virtues midwived for Eve as she gave birth to Cain.
Take some time to reflect on your past virtues and misdeeds.
The old image of Dickens, fostered by his surviving family, as a benign paterfamilias and as a man piously wedded to Victorian domestic virtues was thus tarnished.
As heroes, those who serve and sacrifice embody the virtues that underwrite American greatness.
It will only be cured when people re-discover the old-fashioned virtues of moderation, self-restraint, self-respect, neighbourliness, and a concern for others.
It stresses the virtues of wisdom, justice, fortitude, and moderation.
Apparently, he expounds virtues and morals yet he has little to none.
The chocolate truffle torte with raspberries was an elegant offering, combining the virtues of a good British summer pudding with those of a silky French chocolate marquise.
Communities of impassioned religious believers may boast many virtues, but neutrality and detachment are not among them.
Youth, beauty, apparent vigour and even the most arguable personal virtues may be sanctified by a sudden and violent death.
After all, Pepsi became a world-leading brand not on its actual virtues, but by associating it with a better, happier life.
Among The Fighter's virtues is the absence of a single reference to the ballpark or its tenants.
One of the main virtues that Golgo and salarymen share is that both are capable of great endurance.
The present queen would brighten her character, if she would exert her authority to instill virtues into her people.
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A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering.
I'm gonna make her a Daniel doll and spend the weekend extolling the virtues of teamness and Danielness and Toe'kraness and Jackness to her.
I had a little dog who practiced all the dogly virtues. He never tried to get into any chairs or on any couches.
Dietrich and Lenya lacked a number of singerly virtues, but their strengths lay in a kind of extramusical quality of feeling and experience.
His virtues, as well as imperfections, are tinged by a certain extravagance.
The divine virtues of truth and equity are the only bands of friendship, the only supports of society.
Unfortunately, many of those disgraced politicians paid lip service to the virtues of liberalism and the free market.
One company she visited with high hopes is Toyota, where she gave her spiel for the virtues of locating in the Great Lakes State.
The free market, for all its virtues, does fuel a consumerist mind-set that's personally and socially destructive.
Once Upton Park was seen as a home of traditional football virtues, it is now viewed by many in the games as a house of ill repute.
Meanwhile, he extols the romantic virtues of The Dirty Dozen.
A very Thomistic framework, it covers the cardinal and theological virtues.
Genuinely new possibilities in this regard will depend on radically new understandings and practices of the theological virtues.
Early in the book Dominic Doyle provides some helpful conceptual clarity by reflecting on the three theological virtues of faith, hope, and love.
Oddly, one of the top virtues of Social Security is that it is unfunded.
More specific virtues related to fairness include truthfulness and trustingness, which is a reasonable willingness to trust others.
It represents the virtues of individual responsibility, free markets, and limited government.
It seems to be unavoidable that all historical periods of architecture go through a shadowy timezone in which their virtues are unappreciated.
While the first part deals with the values, virtues and gifts, the second part contains empirical studies on giftedness in the life-span.
The shocks of the fourth century privileged pietas and divine virtus at the expense of human virtues.
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I would just like to see more of a mix, because they both have virtues.
In 1932, Fred Hackett, founder and director of Camp Riverdale for Boys on Long Lake, rhapsodized on the virtues of his camp's location.
He would, I thought, be a perfect spokesmen for the virtues of the craft.
Throughout this course, we developed strong opinions about the relative virtues of summarizing and reacting to course readings.
Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one.
And that is simply why the American propaganda machine's drumbeating of Israel's virtues overwrites the cruel facts about the invasion.
When we allowed gentlehood to be destroyed, gentle manners, honour, dignity, and such old virtues went too.
His virtues active, chiefly, and homiletical, not those lazy, sullen ones of the cloister.
All of these traits were highlighted perhaps because of their similarity to idealized Roman virtues.
Those virtues were rather feigned and affected things to serve his ambition, than true qualities ingenerate in his judgement or nature.
Family ties within the elites were important, as were the virtues of loyalty, courage, and honour.
She advertised the lipoid virtues of what he had heard called junkfood, presumably food for junkies, whom, living in Tangiers, he knew all about.
Liberal Friends highlight the importance of good works, particularly living a life that upholds the virtues preached by Jesus.
It is accompanied by allegorical verses on the virtues that pupils of the college were supposed to have.
The gods, of course, were a quite farcical invention, though necessary for the as it were marmoreal exaltation of the civic virtues.
In a completely allegorical context, the poem follows several knights in an examination of several virtues.
The public was unconvinced of the virtues of rail privatisation and there was much lobbying against the Bill.
A liberal education combines an education in the classics, English literature, the humanities, and moral virtues.
Black people were seen as unchristian and fundamentally different, and therefore common virtues did not so readily apply.
The virtues of temperance, frugality, prudence and integrity promoted by religious Nonconformity.
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He had much prudence, much conscientiousness, and there were occasions when these virtues were the cause of overmuch disquietude in him.
His family name is as long as the word overnumerousness and derives from a songless Latin word referring to one of the countless human virtues.
Rembrandt's work, now praised for its ephemeral virtues, was most admired by his contemporaries for its virtuosity.
Beauty and endurance both rank high among the plantly virtues, and it is a rare individual that has them both.
Fabius Pictor, Cato the Elder wrote ab urbe condita, and the early history is filled with legends illustrating Roman virtues.
For it is necessary that he who is adorned by the cathartic virtues, should abstain from doing any thing precedaneously in conjunction with body.
The text dedicates 1,034 verses, the largest portion, on laws for and expected virtues of Brahmins, and 971 verses for Kshatriyas.
Chapter 7 of the Manusmriti discusses the duties of a king, what virtues he must have, what vices he must avoid.
Mencius distinguished between superior men who recognize and follow the virtues of righteousness and benevolence and inferior men who do not.
Laozi used the term broadly with simplicity and humility as key virtues, often in contrast to selfish action.
Seven Lamps promoted the virtues of a secular and Protestant form of Gothic.
These ideas have many virtues, but falsifiability is not one of them.
There is, on the other hand, a serious lack of consensus, as well as awareness, among the public over the virtues of bringing the TSK under civilian democratic control.
Not all deontologists and consequentialists would attempt to reduce the virtues to mere dispositions to perform certain actions or to maximize the good.
Confucian scholars were attracted to the medical profession because it ensured a high income and medical ethics were compatible with Confucian virtues.
A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes.
He presents four visions of desktop factories and considers how hobbies can be industrialized, and generally adulates the virtues of entrepreneurial populism.
In explaining the virtue's moral psychology this paper shows, among other things, its consistency with wholeheartedness and the unity of the virtues.
The objection is that the argument begs the question, meaning that the premise, that God has all the virtues, assumes the conclusion, that God is benevolent.
Mothering Sunday reminds us of the great virtues of love, unselfishness and devotion to duty, things so many mothers have taught by their own examples.

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