The Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA) advocated in the context of the debt limit talks is not a virtue if the federal government can collect unlimited, ever-increasing percentages of income and is effectively not constitutionally prohibited from any economic intervention whatsoever, which defines the modern American spending and regulatory state.
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One has rights not by virtue of being an American, but by virtue of being human.
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Mr Stewart's political problem is that in Westminster, the term "original thinker" is not a compliment, and independent judgement is often considered a vice, not a virtue.
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.
In the Gospels, Saint Joseph appears as a strong and courageous man, a working man, yet in his heart we see great tenderness, which is not the virtue of the weak but rather a sign of strength of spirit and a capacity for concern, for compassion, for genuine openness to others, for love.
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.
Notice that twice now Mr. Obama has invoked "individual ambition, " and not as a virtue.
While wealth is not synonymous with virtue, a correlation exists between adding value and garnering success.
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Hardness is not the only virtue of what Nanosteel is setting out to produce.
Nixon is thrifty, which is a virtue not valued enough these days.
Prudence is not always a virtue: the instinct to save for a rainy day seems only to harden when the rains set in.
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.
Were it not for this last virtue, some of the pieces in this collection would not exist, or anyway would not be nearly as good.
The Germans in the West behaved little worse than the Allies toward prisoners, and we do not diminish the virtue of the Western democracies by acknowledging so much.
Naazneen is acquainted with many of them by virtue not only of reporting for us but also from years as a ranking editor of Business India out of Mumbai.
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?
Instead, there may be something to be gained by leaning less on modern gurus who pontificate about such things as best in class and more toward Aristotle, who defined virtue not in terms of maximum excellence, but as a habit of choosing the mean lying between the extremes.
By joining together on this solemn anniversary, let us show that America's sense of common purpose need not be a fleeting moment, but a lasting virtue -- not just on one day, but every day.
Their experience is a virtue, not a vice, and should be encouraged in the years ahead.
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This most often happens due to impatience, which is not typically an entrepreneurial virtue.
He commands His creatures to enjoin one another to righteousness and virtue and not to sin and transgression.
As such, Socrates was interested in ascertaining the truth and promoting the pursuit of virtue, not in the self-importance or his own status.
Calling on his colleagues to break their solemn vow, to break faith with constituents, treating such perfidy as virtue, not vice, is more fit for a declining Rome than an honorable republican America.
FORBES: The Supercommittee And The Attempted Slandering Of Grover Norquist
And where compromise is not a vice and where bipartisanship is a actually considered a virtue -- to be rewarded, not punished.
Patience is often a virtue, but not when years go by with little improvement.
Despite what his ideological detractors might suspect, this was not a libertarian embracing the virtue of selfishness.
I'm convinced that, despite what his ideological detractors might suspect, this was not a libertarian embracing the virtue of selfishness.
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