This all sounds modest and coherent, even if it is making a virtue out of necessity.
Yes, dear reader, it is a system that punishes sin and rewards virtue.
Patience is certainly a virtue when it comes to financial planning.
It is true that a recent opinion poll credits Virtue with less than the 10% support it would need to win any seats in parliament in a general election.
The fact that the interior isn't overcooked is a virtue--it tells you Audi did just enough, and like the interior of Porsche interior, the simplicity is all about the purposeful orientation toward driving.
As it turns out, Butler's vice is actually a virtue: The team has a well-deserved reputation for knowing how to foul without fouling.
Another perceived virtue of the current system is that it arguably produces a team at the top of its game.
Gold's virtue, says Mr Grant, is that it is a monetary metal, because of its scarcity and, of course, its history.
Hanging over all this, of course, is the constitutional position of Wales within the UK. Does the Welsh political class want to get itself into a position where it is demanding significant extra revenues from England by virtue of its hilly terrain and rainy climate?
Or is it that investors make inferences about the quality of a firm in general by virtue of its CSR reporting?
They read the foreign press like anyone else, and they know the case that is made against them: namely that Germany deluded itself for years that it was a model of virtue because it was an export champion, offsetting relatively weak domestic consumption linked to wage restraint and high savings rates.
The thought of reviving it, though, has never quite gone away, and these days the fact that it is made mostly of protein, and could thus be chewed up by bacteria, is regarded as a virtue if only the structural weakness could be overcome.
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Considering the seemingly settled logic which says small businesses create the vast majority of jobs, it's a fair bet that this statistic is highly skewed given the certainty that large businesses, by virtue of being that way, are constantly destroying jobs through efficiency gains meant to drive profits, and which in time allow them to expand their hiring mandates.
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