Hypocrisy might be, as La Rochefoucauld had it, the tribute vice pays to virtue, but it is also by far the most entertaining vice for the rest of us, if not for the practitioner.
Massive stock shortages don't seem to be an issue (yet), but patience is not a virtue we hold dear to our hearts, so we really can't blame these people.
"There is a virtue to deepness but you still need to get in and out, " the senior U.S. official said.
George Shultz was later able to cleanse his reputation by virtue of his service to the Reagan administration, but at least to Burns initially, he was more than unimpressive.
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Mr Kutan and other senior figures in the party owe their jobs to Mr Erbakan, but what about Virtue's 310, 000 members, 305, 000 of whom never joined Welfare, and 80-odd provincial party chiefs, all new appointments?
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.
But this abundance of virtue looks like vice to several of Germany's EU partners.
Most are decent, honorable folks, but public workers claim no pedestal of virtue relative to profit seeking colleagues.
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In a New York Times article from 1922, a woman from the National League of Women Voters said women should be placed not below but next to a man in any representation of civic virtue.
Much of the ground covered in this biography will be familiar to Tolkien devotees, but Mr White's virtue lies in making his subject seem both accessible and fun: another boost for the Ring around Tolkien.
We are told that reasonable people compromise, but if compromise leads to disaster, can it be a virtue?
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But Alistair Darling has decided he's got to make a virtue out of necessity.
Of course, the formal rule making process is oftentimes dominated by interest groups with the knowledge and resources to influence the process, but the process has as its virtue transparency, regularity and democratic legitimacy.
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But she says the statue itself is an allegorical image of virtue trying to resist the temptations of civic vice, depicted as two feminized sea creatures.
But this plan of attack does at least have the virtue of appealing to widespread worries about an Obama victory rather than pandering to the foam-flecked fringe.
However, that berth was ultimately claimed by Ghana, who lost 1-0 to Germany to finish level on Australia with four points but who go through by virtue of their superior goal difference.
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?
But in recent years, they've begun to be seen as models of green virtue.
Technically, it wasn't a shot by virtue of missing everything, but the ricochet off the boards went right to Ovechkin, who flipped it high past Henrik Lundqvist.
But however they approach their task, they seem fated to make new law, simply by virtue of their role in the constitutional order.
Glinka had the virtue of being an ideologically neutral choice, but the lack of any words to his song meant it did not exactly lend itself to a morale-boosting singalong - hence the footballers' frustration.
But every day there are a number of people who become fascinating to us -- by virtue of their character, how they reached their decision, how they behaved under pressure, or because of the remarkable circumstances surrounding the event they are involved in.
The gold standard had many flaws, but the chief virtue of fixing the exchange rate and constraining the supply of credit was to stop politicians succumbing to the inevitable pressure to respond to crises by debauching the currency, resulting in long-term harm to the livelihoods and living standards of their citizens.
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.
They called for a parliamentary inquiry, but quickly piped down when the general staff hinted that Virtue, which is accused of seeking to introduce religious rule in Turkey, might suffer the same fate as its predecessor, the Welfare party, which was banned.
It's true that Fleming pokes fun at her rather prissy probity -- refusing to exceed the speed limit during a car chase, for instance -- but Nancy emerges with her virtue intact, as she always has.
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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