Conveniently, the banks provided two external villains for their troubles which have the virtue of being plausible and temporary.
Nixon is thrifty, which is a virtue not valued enough these days.
Measures indicating that well-being stalls beyond a certain modest level of affluence take no account of rising expectations, which are a virtue in themselves.
"Newsnight is 25 and all I got was this lousy bracelet" from Claire Hanna of Belfast, which had the virtue of being entertaining and deadly accurate.
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Another local virtue which helps is the high rate of self-employment: 15% of the region's workforce is self-employed, compared with 9% in Scotland as a whole.
First, in the face of a disease such as malaria, which kills up to 2.7m people a year, speed is itself a virtue, for which some sacrifice in quality may be worthwhile.
Conservatives must be conservative, but we must also recognize that conservatism is not an ideology, but a way of approaching the world, the chief virtue of which is prudence.
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.
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.
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.
By contrast, Mr Giddens's integrated political programme boils down to a list of conventional appeals to civic virtue, in which every bet is hedged and every hard choice ducked.
The cultivation of virtue has become a hot subject at universities, along with the related study of the civic institutions (the church, the family, local voluntary associations) which are thought to foster virtue best.
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This most often happens due to impatience, which is not typically an entrepreneurial virtue.
Last week the photos were offered to the British press, which, in a splendid impulse of virtue, declined the offer.
Second, because there is sin and virtue in the system itself to which we are all subject.
It does not seem to occur to them that an elite which has been socially engineered would, by virtue of that fact, seem deeply illegitimate to many people.
To voters, his main virtue lay in never having held high office, which was taken as a sign that he was not corrupt.
Because anyone you put in the position to be the gatekeeper of your fund, to control which money managers you hire and fire, can, by virtue of his position, make millions on the side.
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So if you lived in New York and started globe trotting but still maintained a lot of connections to New York and never set up a real home anyplace else, New York would say you are a resident of New York by virtue of your domicile even in a year in which you spent no time at all in New York.
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Mussolini's only virtue, he said, was that he encouraged Italian football, which for Leo Valiani rivalled history as a worthwhile pursuit.
Multiculturalism is pernicious in many ways, but perhaps its only virtue is that it is self-limiting because the identity coalitions on which it relies are inherently unstable.
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.
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.
However, this great virtue of her approach turns into a great vice in the context of her broader message, which seems to regard anything beyond a perfunctory interest in the well-being of others as vaguely illicit.
Devaluation not only exports wealth elsewhere, but by virtue of impoverishing the American exporter, we ultimately impoverish our trading partners who lack a robust market in which to send their own goods.
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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