For decades, now, professors of political theory have squabbled over whether liberty or virtue should be the foundation of American politics.
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If one did and he ended up in a prominent government position, the shoe collection would be newsworthy simply by virtue of being so weird.
Roche's arguments may be making a virtue out of a necessity.
On the other hand, when dollar policy tilts toward strength, as it did in the 1980s and 1990s, the income streams investors are purchasing rise in value, thus serving as a lure for investment capital that will be better protected by virtue of sound dollar policy.
Ms Sandbach argued the delivery of the 3% annual reduction target may only be possible at present by the virtue of the economic downturn.
One of the many mistakes the McCain people have admitted is that they assumed that a sitting governor, by virtue of her position, would be up to the task of answering substantive questions of vital interest to the nation.
But there will be larger implications of the suit, just by virtue of the fact that this job happens to be on television.
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Instead, it must come from donors, who should be made to see the virtue of holding their alma maters, their children and themselves to higher academic and moral standards.
But in recent years, they've begun to be seen as models of green virtue.
The virtue of this would be two-fold: The money would quickly get into consumers' hands, and the cost of hiring and employing people would be lower.
By materially participating, the ordinary income of the corporation will not be included in your net investment income, and by virtue of Rev.
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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 also became obvious that the difference between economic virtue and political virtue needed to be illustrated as a part of my course.
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Polls show that though the public is willing to wait the process out, the virtue of patience would seem to be evenly divided.
By the end of the week of Ruthie's funeral and its aftermath, we had seen enough to know that we had to be part of a rural place where neighbourly virtue is so common, and so close to hand.
As discussed in Part 1, this separately stated income will be included within the definition of net investment income by virtue of Prop.
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But if we gun guys are the paragons of civic virtue that we claim to be, why do we have to be ordered to lock up our guns or report a gun theft?
The virtue of this plan is that it would be similar to the treatment of COLAS In private industry: workers whose wages are indexed to inflation generally get raises equal to only a portion of the CPI increase.
But a decent economy means that we should be able to see a number of corporations out there in which we can invest that will have growth rates upwards of 15% per year by virtue of the fact that they happen to be in a strong business.
We must always be careful when holding up what once was as a paragon of virtue.
The great virtue of cap and trade is that the system can be taken directly to the targeted emission reductions.
Under the rules, as written, an attorney like my husband would be exempt from the competency exam and continuing education requirements simply by virtue of his profession.
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But the thing about governors is that by nature, and if not by nature then by virtue of the position, you end up having to be pragmatic, because you have to figure out what works.
These compounds, by virtue of their mode of action, were deemed to be as potent arthritis pain relievers as traditional non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen and naproxen, but were believed to be safer than NSAIDs since they caused less gastrointestinal distress.
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He believes, with shining certainty, in his own success, and, more broadly, in the American Gospel of Wealth that lies behind it: the idea that rich people got rich by being good, that the riches are a sign of their virtue, and that they should therefore be allowed to rule.
He is solidly secular, which means he will be wary of giving too long a leash to the Islamic-minded Virtue party, even though it has backed his candidacy in parliament.
Quite unlike taxes on income that are paid no matter what, with a consumption tax individuals would be able to limit the amount of money handed to the government by virtue of spending less.
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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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