Sentences with phrase «comes by virtue»

Traditionally one may be inclined to answer that the authority of bound and digital publications comes by virtue of their publication by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting («ICLR») for England and Wales; producers of the Law Reports («LRs») and Weekly Law Reports («WLRs»).

Traditionally one may be inclined to answer that the authority of bound and digital publications comes by virtue of their publication...

Scientific authority, in other words, comes by virtue of some form of social organisation: institutional science.

That is to say, whatever can possibly come into being comes by virtue of the inexhaustibly rich, changing, valuable order of which we are dependent parts.

The iconic No. 3 being back in victory lane at Daytona International Speedway came by virtue of an Earnhardt - like pass on the final lap of the Daytona 500.

Their one and only away win came by virtue of a 2 - 0 win at The Reebok against Bolton Wanderers, way back in November.

Not exact matches

By virtue of a contract struck in 1999, Cameco agreed to provide its subsidiary with uranium for many years to come.

Uber, co-founded five years ago by Travis Kalanick, who is its chief executive, has come to symbolize the worker debate by virtue of its scale.

A procession of foreign business luminaries visited Australia last year (curiously, those who came extolling the virtues of the virtual economy still found old - fashioned enjoyment in watching the Olympics in the flesh) to promote their companies, advising us to ignore our comparative advantage by following their example.

It is by virtue of examining all the evidence in detail that most Atheists come to the conclusion that belief in the supernatural is unwarranted and just plain silly.

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.

The key to the strength of Victorian virtues was that those virtues were not, in fact, just middle class but were shared by nearly everyone: from the Queen down to the poorest Cockney, nearly everyone believed in the public good that came from observance of the national ethic.

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?

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.

Those John is talking about in the passage you then quote are the ones who, by virtue of not believing Jesus actually came, are not believers, but rather ones who are specifically trying to come into the group and deny the incarnation of Christ.

Though an agent comes - to - be by virtue of (among other things) his acts, he does not always act.

«5 The full account of the human ousia in De Anima and in the Nichomachean Ethics is a dynamic one, in which the rationality of the agent shapes, by virtue of his choices and his actions, his own coming - to - be.

The pledge of allegiance was created by a socialist named Francis Bellamy who came up with it in order to instill in his own words «the virtue of obedience to the state» into impressionable children.

I'm not sure what is meant by «global loyalty» - perhaps it would become a virtue in the event of invasion from other planets - but I am sure that such jargon contributes little to understanding why so many thoughtful Americans are coming to a jaundiced view of the UN and other institutions created in support of an internationalism that is now unsupported by clear doctrine, or any doctrine at all.

The church, however, came rapidly enough to recognize that the existence of man as spirit was by no means an insurance of virtue.

In his recent book, Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity, he offers «four benefits» of mortality: interest and engagement, suggesting that adding, say, twenty years to the human life span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy cause.

Paul's meaning is that by virtue of the death (and resurrection) of Christ the boundary between the two ages is crossed, and those who believe belong no more to the present evil age, but to the glorious Age to Come.

And then he reflects upon how he came to the point where he can say that, by virtue of what startling and reconstitutive convulsion it has been made possible, and he stops the active voice in the remembrance of»... this Son of God who loved me, and gave himself...

The typical feature of this communion is the discovery in ourselves of an openness or response to a third person that we can hardly credit as coming from us, except by virtue of the indwelling of a second in us.

Nothing comes into existence by virtue of a logical ground, but only by a cause.

But this power did not come from any ecclesiastical body, or through control of the sacraments, or by virtue of an academic degree or training, or by a majority vote of a church assembly.

God's future is his age to come, his ages of ages, his last things, his future period of time, which by virtue of the incarnation and resurrection paradoxically juts out as it were into this present age of ours.

Berrigan's complaint, in short, is that the reestablishment of a Jewish state (a justifiable goal) has come at a tremendous cost in human suffering, armed violence and moral decay; that the course of the new state has been a betrayal of everything the term «Israel» has stood for — justice, compassion, succoring the humiliated and injured; that a «settler state» was established through the expropriation of the people of the land, followed by an imperialist venture, based on the subjugation and exploitation of the conquered; and that, to add moral insult to physical and spiritual injury, the spokesmen of and for the state claim for it a special virtue and glorious achievement which may not be criticized.

By virtue of being canonized in Holy Scripture, the many pieces of apocalyptic writing in the New Testament, including the Apocalypse of John, have become permanently associated with the cardinal Christian doctrine of the expectation of the Second Coming of Christ, as expressed in the Creed: «He shall come again with glory to judge both the living and the dead and his kingdom shall have no end.»

It matters to God; hence it is meaningful to speak of the way in which, once we have come to the end of our life in this world, something abides — and that something is of enormous importance and gives dignity to our humanity, both for you and me as particular persons and also for human society in its total reality — a society of which each of us is a member, by virtue of our belonging together in what an Old Testament text beautifully calls «a bundle of life».

This position can not be mediated, for all mediation comes about precisely by virtue of the universal; it is and remains to all eternity a paradox, inaccessible to thought.

At 8:18 am on Tuesday 23 February 2010, a week before Cardinal Murphy - O'Connor debated the virtues of a Catholic England, something happened that may well come to be seen by such historians as an epiphany moment, revealing with telling clarity the contemporary British Church's propensity to get unwillingly sucked into an agenda profoundly at variance with our own.

The manifold variety of doctrines which could be encountered in early Greek philosophy and in the early Hellenistic age was abandoned (though to some extent revived in Gnostic circles), and in its place came a fairly uniform teaching, largely Stoic in origin, which laid emphasis on the four virtues of justice, courage, sobriety and understanding, and was addressed by preachers to individuals.

After Kiki comes Tauna, 9, named for the Taunus Mountains of West Germany, and No. 1 daughter in the Vandeweghe household, not only by virtue of age but by competitiveness.

Laurent, by virtue of his tenacity, comes second.

With the exception of Neymar, who was new in town and perhaps did not fully understand the situation (though the match official, knowing better, offered the Brazilian winger no quarter from the heavy Atletico challenges throughout the game), the rest of the Barcelona side appeared to play with the awareness that the rightful champions of Spain were the blue collar grafters from Madrid, simply by virtue of having already come so close considering the current climate of the Spanish game.

However, Wigan's only win out of three came against Sunderland by virtue of a narrow 1 - 0 success.

Tottenham's euphoric run finally came to an end on Saturday as Manchester United dented their bid to land fourth spot, but it was just a dent, a minor setback if you like, as Harry's Spurs still occupy that final Champions League berth, albeit by virtue of goal difference.

Front page articles by John Blevin extolled the virtues of Labour into Power claiming the document was «a genuine attempt to strengthen and extend internal democracy» (7 February) which «has come down firmly in favour of a rebuilt partnership between membership and leadership» (31 January).

If all people are created equal by virtue of inalienable rights (those rights which don't come from government - see 9th Amendment and «inalienable rights»), then any laws must acknowledge the self - ownership of all individuals otherwise they are illegitimate (we know that governments are bad about this since they make arbitrary laws which harm people which violated no one else's rights but merely violated a law - like seat belt laws).

Not the wet sloshy stuff that comes out of the tap, but air, which, by virtue of its viscous properties, also qualifies as a fluid.

Yet much of the evidence cited by smart drug enthusiasts comes from animal experiments which can, by virtue of their design, test only a drug's effect on learning, not recall.

Here's to the softness, humanity, and feminine wisdom that comes when we allow ourselves to loosen up into «being» by giving as much space to our «vices» as we do to «virtues.»

To say being happy is a matter of choice can come off slightly discounting I realize, assuming all we have to do is say so, and by virtue of that simple act things turn around, miraculously come together, and we are magically transformed to a lighter, happier place.

With age comes wisdom and maturity, virtues that are sought after by all.

Each year, around thousands of Russian mail order brides come to western countries by virtue of getting married to a citizen of that country.

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.

(Mark Ruffalo comes closest to standing out, mostly by virtue of being Mark Ruffalo.

By the time Sebastian starts cruising Annette, her principled virtue has come to seem as admirable and as potent, hence as sexy, as Kathryn's amorality — which offers at least a whiff of the novel's moral and erotic dynamics.