in virtue of in a sentence

Examples

1. He pleaded in virtue of his status as a French officer to die by the musket instead of the rope.
2. Whereupon, the Abbot ordered him, in virtue of the vows he had professed, to continue the administration of the empire.
3. The supreme administrator and steward of to all ecclesiastical temporalities is the Pope, in virtue of his primacy of governance.
4. In virtue of the last two he has the distinction of being one of the earliest systematic writers on international law.
5. In virtue of the 2007fall present motu proprio " Summorum Pontificum " this form may, under certain conditions, be used still.
6. In virtue of the Constitution of 1852 he became senator of the empire, and in 1858 commander of the Legion of Honour.
7. The " seminal Logos " which, in virtue of its tension, slumbered in " pneuma ", now proceeds upon its creative task.
8. For any individual, there has to be something that connects its temporal stages in virtue of which it remains the same thing.
9. In virtue of these principles of legality, there is an inner morality to the law that imposes a minimal morality of fairness.
10. This " eternal feminine " was constructed because, as she points out, " They are women in virtue of their anatomy and physiology.