The biggest winner of all, though, is a firm that has made a virtue of avoiding mergers: Lehman Brothers.
Mr Maliki has thus announced a plan to set up a multi-confessional coalition, making a virtue of his predicament.
Most ignore it, and many make a virtue of having voted against it.
Back in 1992, when Bill Clinton was campaigning for his first term, he made a virtue of his disdain for foreign-policy issues.
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As with many other foods, some bread manufacturers are starting to cut salt levels and to make a virtue of this for marketing purposes.
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Take Instagram, who made it a virtue of being an iOS only platform for as long as possible before allowing Android users in to the network.
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He came into this job with only nine months experience as an MLA, in fact he made a virtue of the fact that he had no big ideas.
Italy, unable to reform, has made a virtue of a low-wage, low-productivity economy, with little social mobility, a choice given respectability by the preaching of a complacently anti-capitalist Church.
But this is nothing new to the fair trade sector, says Helen Ireland, of Cafe Direct, which has long made a virtue of building bridges between producer and consumer.
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?
Why not make a virtue of the fact that they share a screen, tying the television picture to related Web information, perhaps even displayed as a window on the same screen?
When the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Media Lab researchers behind Formlabs submitted their fundraising campaign to Kickstarter, they made a virtue of the quality of the print-outs they could offer.
Having fallen out with the Tories over the budget, Lords reform, boundary changes, energy policy, the Leveson report, and drugs reform, the Lib Dems will now make a virtue of these differences.
As most Americans still regard unilateral disarmament to be ill-advised, the Administration has seized upon the simultaneous and accelerated pursuit of several arms reduction accords as a means of making a virtue of political necessity.
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But a great virtue of the diaries is that Clark did not give a hoot what we thought about him.
But Alistair Darling has decided he's got to make a virtue out of necessity.
Making a virtue out of necessity has become an art for the Health Secretary.
This all sounds modest and coherent, even if it is making a virtue out of necessity.
To keep a steady gaze, the film suggests, is not just a virtue but a form of orderly protest, when your world is breaking apart.
Roche's arguments may be making a virtue out of a necessity.
If it will never be politically possible to cut taxpayer funding for health and education, say the Tories, you might as well make a virtue out of supporting publicly-financed health and education.
The president of CNPC also mentioned that Cuba, by virtue of a resolution of the Minister of Culture, created in 2004 the Commission for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, which proofs the importance the country grants to the protection of these manifestations of identity.
But in any case, Cal Ripken, of course, won two MVP awards, played in 2, 632 consecutive games and really stood for a lot of the virtue in baseball, and a lot of the good things that baseball represents to a lot of people.
Mr. Greenberg is an outsider by virtue of not being a psychiatrist but an insider by virtue of serving as one of the investigators involved in field-testing some proposed diagnoses on actual patients.
He is an exponent of what might be thought of as a Slow Foot movement, asserting that a sort of virtue is forged in the discipline of wearing exquisite, handmade shoes, even if they cramp the metatarsals.
"It was a gentlemen's business, private by virtue of doing business in a particular way for many hundreds of years, " says New York dealer Linda Hyman, a former Christie's American paintings specialist.
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