Sentences with phrase «virtue of the fact»

That means we can probably expect a lot of reports about CEOs getting huge bonuses simply by virtue of the fact that they just happened to be at the helm when this passed.

A member of the Christian community will, simply in virtue of that fact, see it as disclosure.

If we get stronger play from the lines on both sides of the ball, we are a much better team by virtue of that fact alone.

Just by virtue of the fact that you have to be funny, you can't afford to focus on the negative.

It would be hard to imagine him making it to No. 4 by virtue of that fact alone.

The stay - at - home mom tends to have more time to make little everyday discoveries around her abode, by pure virtue of the fact that she spends more time there than a lot of other moms.

The uniqueness of the Hebrew religion was that it carried this intimate relationship farther and higher than did the others; it was supremely the historic religion, and by virtue of this fact attained heights and depths impossible for the others.

Similarly, no one claims to be an expert mechanic by sheer virtue of the fact that they own a car, so why would we think that simply having a child makes someone a medical expert?

The ZenFone 2 Laser has a fully laminated 5.5 - inch screen and a 72 percent screen - to - body ratio, which basically makes the screen look bigger than it is by virtue of the fact there's less physical real estate surrounding it.

And here was some bald, middle - aged, condescending chicken nugget, sneering at me for being single... presumably because I wasn't going weak at the knees by simple virtue of the fact that he was a single RAF pilot.

I think most of the time it happens without the person who's making things harder even realizing they're doing so, but experienced moms often make new moms feel bad for a myriad of things, just by virtue of the fact that hindsight is 20/20.

«Dispensaries that exist right now, while they'll be entitled to seek approval to becomes a true dispensary under a legal market, I think a lot of them will be disqualified by virtue of the fact that they won't necessarily meet the regulatory requirements I presume the government is going to bring forth.»

«We were successful by virtue of the fact that we got the aircraft into the air,» McDuffee said.

Sony's entry, however, is likely to be the most successful yet by virtue of the fact that it has the lowest barrier to entry.

In this case, the recipients of the transfer payments will increase their spending and, by virtue of the fact that the funding of these payments is created, figuratively, out of thin air, no other entity need cut back on her / his current spending.

In contrast, the 2000 - 2003 decline never took the market to sufficiently low valuations to justify a value - driven investment exposure, so our returns were somewhat higher by virtue of the fact that we remained fully hedged throughout the selloff.

Apart from that, it does pay to have visual content along the information one wishes to convey in posts by virtue of the fact that tweets with photos received 35 % more retweets than those without; tweets with videos receive 28 % more retweets than those without.

A lot of times I neatly sidestepped the issue of someone at church speaking to my husband by virtue of the fact my husband has never attended church, so church authority was left to just talk to me.

«God should be detectable by scientific means simply by virtue of the fact that he is supposed to play such a central role in the operation of the universe and the lives of humans.»

That said, the case has been made that if the Christian god exists, then «God should be detectable by scientific means simply by virtue of the fact that he is supposed to play such a central role in the operation of the universe and the lives of humans», with the conclusion that» [e] xisting scientific models contain no place where God is included as an ingredient in order to describe observations.»

All natural or artifactual systems exhibit certain fundamental features of structure, behavior, and interaction shared in common by virtue of the fact that they are systems.

Did they go to Heaven or Hell based on the Old Testament Law, or did those who died that had believed in Jesus and followed His ministry go to Heaven by virtue of the fact they accepted Jesus for who He claimed to be?

Women have developed a passive dissociation from the world by virtue of the fact that the world and its politics are man - made, homo - relational.

While each subject is in a sense stationary by virtue of the fact that it occupies a particular region of the pool, the self traverses the length of the pool as one subject and then another, moving from region to region.

Two important things have been lost: (1) the idea of being that is present in the Greek word by virtue of the fact that «ousia» is a substantive formed from a feminine participle of the verb «to be»; (2) the dynamic overtones present in such Aristotelian phrases as «ousia energeia» and «ousia entelecheia.

But Hartshorne effectively replies that, even if finite beings depend for their existence on the creative activity of God, it still remains true that if God had created a different world then He would have been somewhat different from the way He actually is by virtue of the fact that His perfect knowledge would have been of that world rather than of this world; and so the point still holds that divine cognitive relations to the creatures are partially constitutive of God.7

If it turns out that the Christian god is in fact imaginary, then by virtue of this fact it is not real, and therefore it does not actually exist.

I'm not saying that by virtue of the fact that a «harsh thing» was said, Jesus was being exclusive.

Second, it will show that Gary Gutting's critique of metaphysical validations of induction in general and the Whiteheadian justification in particular is cogent in virtue of the fact that he requires the metaphysical doctrine of internal relations to perform tasks Whitehead never intended it to perform (PS 1:171 - 78).

He makes exactly the same movements as the other knight, infinitely renounces claim to the love which is the content of his life, he is reconciled in pain; but then occurs the prodigy, he makes still another movement more wonderful than all, for he says, «I believe nevertheless that I shall get her, in virtue, that is, of the absurd, in virtue of the fact that with God all things are possible.»

by virtue of the facts he states about our uniqueness and prowess as «the best,» he gives no solid reason to change.

Intuitions of mystery are universally possible and not confined to specific cultural - linguistic frameworks, simply by virtue of the fact that all people have limit - experiences and occasionally at least ask the limit - questions that transport us beyond the confines of the everyday.

Biblically speaking, all human beings are blessed by God by virtue of the fact they are created in his image, and fundamentally equal.

By virtue of the fact that liberal democracy is an association of communities, each of which has its own vision of God and the good, rather than itself being the highest institutional expression of one such community, it does indeed operate without a common substantive conception of the good.

We are implicated in these historical crimes, says the liberal, and deserve to be penalized for them, by virtue of the fact (a) that we are the beneficiaries of social arrangements built on the foundations laid by this past exploitation; and (b) that despite our protests, we continue to treat and regard the historically victimized in discriminatory and injurious ways, sometimes knowingly, sometimes unconsciously.

The deists were influential well beyond the theological arena by virtue of the fact that a large number of this country's Founding Fathers were Deists, whether closeted or openly.

Likewise, an electron or a proton would be an enduring object by virtue of the fact that, besides the «yet more ultimate actual entities» within the electronic or protonic society (PR 139), the «electronic and protonic actual entities» (PR 139) are regnant occasions within the society in which they are members.

He is perhaps best understood as intending that the molecule can be treated as an enduring object (i.e., a serially - ordered society of actual occasions) by virtue of the fact that it contains a series of regnant molecular occasions.