At a recent forum sponsored by the Hudson Institute, social conservatives argued that governments should aim to encourage public virtue, others that government should get off people's backs.
For example, I daresay that the financiers and politicians of 2011 are veritable paragons of public virtue compared to the pirates who commandeered our way of life during the Gilded Age.
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We're separated from the public by virtue of the security, they make it quite quiet in the back stretch, and all of those things suit me.
What is indeed astonishing is that, in this context, nobody seems to be ready to try the straightforward device to trim the public debt by virtue of selling the huge Italian state holdings or severely cutting public spending.
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Most are decent, honorable folks, but public workers claim no pedestal of virtue relative to profit seeking colleagues.
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If their opponents are going to paint the Conservatives as Little-Englanders anyway, why shouldn't Mr Hague, feeling the grain of public opinion, decide to make a virtue of it?
Another is that local councils, like many other public institutions in Brazil, are rarely temples of civic virtue.
Polls show that though the public is willing to wait the process out, the virtue of patience would seem to be evenly divided.
It is under attack from the political left and also from economists whose work revolves around one sole virtue prudence thus eroding the public understanding of markets and economic life.
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These have the virtue of being traded right here at home, in full public view, on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Souness' remark was designed to be dismissive of the football credentials of a public-school educated son of the Shires who wandered into football almost accidentally by virtue of owning old folks' homes.
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If Company A does not make any public disclosures regarding the invention before the August filing, Company B can get the patent by virtue of its earlier filing date.
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The sanctioned duties of the mutawa, officially known as the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, include preventing women driving, enforcing modest dress codes, policing bans on public entertainment and making sure all businesses close for prayers five times a day.
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