• Mr Kutan, for his part, disclaims any ambition to lead Virtue after the next party congress.

    ECONOMIST: Turkey

  • Notts clinched the title on the final day of the season by virtue of winning more games after they and Somerset finished level on points.

    BBC: County Championship win is new highlight - Chris Read

  • After all, hostile takeovers have at least one important virtue.

    ECONOMIST: Pills, potions and promises

  • This is, after all, a man who believes that stubbornness is a virtue.

    CNN: Clinton's November 19, 2007, speech on economic challenges

  • And so now, after a long odyssey, the product that stands for farm-town virtue is managed from Rye Brook, near New York city.

    ECONOMIST: Nebraska��s Kool-Aid test

  • And there is a mild incentive for virtue: the joyous welcome afforded to countries that gain readmission after a period of isolation (as happened to South Africa after apartheid or Pakistan when democracy returned).

    ECONOMIST: The Commonwealth

  • At the inaugural ICC World Twenty20 two years ago, they made it through to the Super Eight stage by virtue of a win over Zimbabwe, but bowed out of the tournament after losing to hosts South Africa, New Zealand and India.

    BBC: Strauss will miss World Twenty20

  • Virtue, the Islamic party formed when its predecessor, Welfare, was banned in 1998 after being thrown out of office, has spotted that with a European arm around its shoulder it might be better able to insist, for instance, that females should be allowed, despite current laws, to wear headscarves in state-run schools and government offices.

    ECONOMIST: Is it adieu to Ataturk?

  • Luckily, for the reader, American politics, and political books, are loaded with tiny, all-too-human contradictions from the pushy fund-raiser who was shunned by her peers after sitting next to Bill Clinton to the strange fact that Bill Bennett, the Republican's dean of virtue, once dated Janis Joplin.

    ECONOMIST: Washington, Babylon?

  • The original Raven -- as the team's first draft pick after it relocated from Cleveland to Baltimore -- literally stands above everyone else in the Class of 2013, by virtue of his height and 345-pound frame.

    CNN: February 3, 2013 -- Updated 0301 GMT (1101 HKT)

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