In reply to their critics, the Americans will argue that, in economics, thrift is often a vice and gluttony a virtue.

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As she recounts, a traffic officer stopped the car, and soon members of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Saudi morality police, surrounded the car.

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Almost immediately I was accosted by a couple of angry mutawwa, religious policemen known as The Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

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Their experience is a virtue, not a vice, and should be encouraged in the years ahead.

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And where compromise is not a vice and where bipartisanship is a actually considered a virtue -- to be rewarded, not punished.

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His stores preach organic virtue and profit from culinary vice.

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It's a gigantic man with a club or sword, meant to represent virtue, stepping on two sirens, representing vice and corruption.

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Mr Stewart's political problem is that in Westminster, the term "original thinker" is not a compliment, and independent judgement is often considered a vice, not a virtue.

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With Ford, simplicity could be vice as much as virtue an excuse for ignoring (or mistreating) associates and avoiding hard decisions.

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Ironically, once Egyptian demonstrators verged on toppling Mubarak, the Obama Administration suddenly found virtue in demonstrations in Iran, with ringing statements by Vice-President Biden and others.

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