Sentences with phrase «as a virtue by»

That this quality is invoked as a virtue by some of the most meticulous craftsmen currently working in movies (Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, James Gray, and Wes Anderson) comes as little surprise.

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Although Breaux Capital faces steep competition in the personal finance sector — including from apps such as Mint, which sold to Intuit in 2009 and now counts more than 20 million customers — CTO Quarles says he's convinced that his community, by virtue of being by and for black men, is unique.

The philosophy of stoicism, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC, asserts that virtues (such as wisdom) should be based on behavior, rather than words.

«As an American corporation, we believe that the national security of American citizens trumps the virtue signaling displayed by Silicon Valley and the dishonest reporting being perpetuated by the media,» CEO Andrew Torba says.

Take care of all of your stakeholders, and make sure that you as leaders model the virtues of selflessness, trust, and caring for all the lives you impact — including those whose livelihoods may be impacted by your technology.»

«This is not the time to humble brag by citing a mistake that can actually be seen as a virtue, like a time you worked «too hard» on a project or didn't delegate because you wanted to keep a close eye on quality,» she says.

He lived there to qualify of UK citizenship, by virtue of the island's status as a British Overseas Territory.

«However, inspiring and leading by example is a virtue that is priceless as it scales across the whole organization and helps your company feel like one.»

It is even outclassed in the narrow realm of automobiles by speedsters such as the 430 - km / hour Bugatti Veyron, which I might add is street legal, a virtue the Cobra Jet sadly does not share.

I recently read an opinion piece by Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini in which he extolls the virtues of greeting the sun just as it's rising each morning: «Every day I get up at 5:30 for my own yoga and meditation practice because I know I'm going to head into a chaotic world where I will be challenged.»

This is a good problem for a company to have, as it typically means there is an up - round financing, existing investors can help drive company - friendly terms in the new round, and the investor syndicate increases in strength by virtue of new capital (and — presumably — another helpful co-investor) in the deal.

Except as required by law or with the approval of the customer, a telecommunications carrier that receives or obtains customer proprietary network information by virtue of its provision of a telecommunications service shall only use, disclose, or permit access to individually identifiable customer proprietary network information in its provision of (A) the telecommunications service from which such information is derived, or (B) services necessary to, or used in, the provision of such telecommunications service, including the publishing of directories.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 16 through June 22, 2013, as National Small Business Week.

Each of Hopper, Barberry and Mr. Icahn, by virtue of their relationships to High River (as disclosed in Item 2), may be deemed to indirectly beneficially own (as that term is defined in Rule 13d - 3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the «Act») the Shares which High River directly beneficially owns.

Each of Icahn Offshore, Icahn Capital, IPH, Icahn Enterprises Holdings, Icahn Enterprises GP, Beckton and Mr. Icahn, by virtue of their relationships to Icahn Master (as disclosed in Item 2), may be deemed to indirectly beneficially own (as that term is defined in Rule 13d - 3 under the Act) the Shares which Icahn Master directly beneficially owns.

Each of Icahn Onshore, Icahn Capital, IPH, Icahn Enterprises Holdings, Icahn Enterprises GP, Beckton and Mr. Icahn, by virtue of their relationships to Icahn Partners (as disclosed in Item 2), may be deemed to indirectly beneficially own (as that term is defined in Rule 13d - 3 under the Act) the Shares which Icahn Partners directly beneficially owns.

Shkreli owed Retrophin a duty of loyalty by virtue of his position as Retrophin's President or CEO and as a member of the Board.

A steadily increasing number of people will want to get in on the «new Bitcoin,» a bizarre paradox given that gold is as old as time, and will soon realize that gold possesses virtues Bitcoin does not, given that it is real, not digital and abstract; that owners can personally possess and store it in physical form; that it will survive any kind of electric grid or Internet disruption that might occur; that it can not ever be hacked; that it is the epitome of private, quiet wealth; that it is actually quite beautiful to behold; and that it was not and can not be made by man, only by God, who does not appear to have any interest in making any more of it.

We believe that ultimately the large chain pharmacies will be compelled by virtue of consumer demand to enter the on - demand delivery space and likely will do so by acquiring existing players such as NowRx.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

Others have observed that countries such as China and India were able to maintain parities by virtue of the application of capital controls, so an equally vigorous debate on the role of capital controls is intertwined with the debate on regimes.

From the outset, the cryptocurrency community has held as a fundamental tenet that cryptocurrencies are inherently superior to fiat currencies by virtue of the security associated with the technology, the cap on the number of units of currency to be issued (either immediately or ultimately) and the freedom from meddling regulators, especially central banks.

It was only if those requirements were relaxed as a matter of federal law that it would become necessary to consider if those requirements could continue to apply ex proprio motu, or if they were inoperative or inapplicable by virtue of the doctrines of paramountcy and / or interjurisdictional immunity.

Many have pointed out (most recently, Carson Holloway) that the application of natural law to our situation requires the virtue of prudence, a mastery of the details of our circumstances (such as is possible for a human being), with the goals and the weights given to particular considerations by good moral character (or, if you will, a well - formed conscience).

This right of democratic choice and the responsibility of democratic governance is not promoted by judicial imperialism, even if justified as showing some responsiveness to popular sentiments or public virtues.

Children are currently seen as having a religion by virtue of their parents but it could be argued that children have no religious faith until such time as they are deemed mature enough to make decisions around consent..

I'm glad you admit that the whole point of your coming here is to start a thread where you feel justified in being as big of a dick as you can by mere virtue of having starting the thread.

If i was Hawkins, i would be a bit more toughtful, and look deep into his own huiman condition and accept he «s a living miracle granted by virtue of God, or, in scientific terms, Anti Matter, so, as to try and figure out why is he still alive, and what is his real mission on earth.

Federal civil rights officials have absurdly claimed that they are the true heirs of Martin Luther King's moral legacy, by virtue of their having remained loyal to his «color blind» ideal — as if King's moral leadership consisted of this and nothing else.

As love becomes merely a passion, as safety becomes merely a term for never being contradicted, as victimhood and oppression are turned into subjective categories rooted in emotional psychology, the very language by which we understand virtues, well - being, and concern becomes not a tool for care but a barrier preventing us from carinAs love becomes merely a passion, as safety becomes merely a term for never being contradicted, as victimhood and oppression are turned into subjective categories rooted in emotional psychology, the very language by which we understand virtues, well - being, and concern becomes not a tool for care but a barrier preventing us from carinas safety becomes merely a term for never being contradicted, as victimhood and oppression are turned into subjective categories rooted in emotional psychology, the very language by which we understand virtues, well - being, and concern becomes not a tool for care but a barrier preventing us from carinas victimhood and oppression are turned into subjective categories rooted in emotional psychology, the very language by which we understand virtues, well - being, and concern becomes not a tool for care but a barrier preventing us from caring.

If those guys are largely right about the incentive factors that would then come into play (and especially if Americans were moderating their economic libertarianism with devotion to family, virtue, community, and God, as your work would urge them to), then by no means would that cause the social welfare policy disaster most liberals assume it would.

If ministers of the gospel indulge in gratuitous virtue - signaling by promoting the worst of black legends, as if the sum total of Christianity's impact on world history were embodied by «the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition,» why would anyone come to their churches or listen to whatever's being offered there by way of I'm - OK - You're - OK therapeutic balm?

But such virtues as compassion, respect, and toleration are shared by morals and manners, and hence form the basis of imperatives of ethics, as well as of etiquette.

Not only can such a deity be blamed for not intervening, but also held responsible, by virtue of the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo, for natural defects as well as deficient wills.17

But the prehensions of each phase must be different from those of the other phases by virtue of different subjective forms, just as on Whitehead's view the prehensions of each occasion differ from those of each other by virtue of the same reason.

The virtue of self - discipline features heavily in the New Testament; it's one of the fruits of the Spirit in Galatians 5, a key element of Paul's famous athletics metaphor in 1 Corinthians 9, and implicit in the idea of Christians as living sacrifices (Romans 12:1 - 2), «transformed by the renewal of your mind [s]» (ESV).

In the end, sound constitutional interpretation is ensured not so much by principles on paper as by judges with certain virtues.

Here and there in the history of Israel, groups such as the Essenes preached asceticism and the virtues of poverty, but this was by no means the general rule.

As a whole, the lands facing the Mediterranean came to form a true continent by virtue of their cultural ties, trade routes, and common political system.

The Hellenistic Jewish text, Wisdom of Solomon, for example, pictures the righteous as gentle and forbearing in the face of persecution by the wicked, reproving but not physically opposing their foes, despite lack of earthly reward for their virtue.

They may only enter into full communion with the LDS church as adults, no longer in the custody of their apostate parents, and only by virtue of affirming their faith in the principles their parents reject.

Hence, we must attribute to God not only the conceptual ordering of the eternal objects by virtue of which he lures the occasions of the world toward order and value; we must attribute to him as to all other actual entities physical feelings as well.

When you make the greatest virtue of «standing up for your faith,» people judge their faithfulness by using conflict as a measuring stick.

So likewise Kierkegaard's dialectical understanding of faith establishes the subjective truth of faith as a consequence of the negation of objectivity, and the passion and inwardness of faith is established only by virtue of the absurdity of its objective meaning or ground.

I too, as a virtue ethicist atheist whose transhumanism seems to be rooted in dualism as Leah is, can only ponder tha Kantean imperitives of vanilla dualism by mean of the French feminist approached to hermaneutics.

However, those of us concerned to find such relationships between distinct fields should heed the cautious word of Cambridge physicist Sir Brian Pippard when he says that each field thrives by virtue of its own methods and not by aping those of others: «The fabric of knowledge has not been woven as a seamless robe but pieced together like a patchwork quilt, and we are still in the position of being able to appreciate the design in individual pieces much more clearly than the way they are put together» (Pippard, 95 - 96).

But as conceived by Leibniz as a qualified substance, such perspectives are attributed to each monad internally, so that the interconnection between monads is only apparent; they are in actuality «windowless» and externally related, and in concord only by virtue of pre-established harmony.

I was with you on this one, David, till the end when you turned the blame as - if on your self for not «conforming like a good soldier,» when in fact your non-conforming is the virtue of your integrity, some what tarnished by your irony: faux blame.

It must be given to the reality by virtue of which this claim or insight can be relativized as we advance in truth.

By virtue of this vocation man understands that he is always more than what he can do, and that society as such is always more than what can be accomplished by either the market or politicBy virtue of this vocation man understands that he is always more than what he can do, and that society as such is always more than what can be accomplished by either the market or politicby either the market or politics.