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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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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The infamous Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Taliban's ruthless religious enforcement agency, was never properly abolished: it has merely lost its ministerial status and is now known as the Department of Islamic Instruction.
Plain-clothes agents of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, as the religious police are known, patrol streets, parks and shopping centres, intervening to scold offenders, strike them with switches or haul them off to be disciplined by ordinary police.
The sanctioned duties of the mutawa, officially known as the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, include preventing women driving, enforcing modest dress codes, policing bans on public entertainment and making sure all businesses close for prayers five times a day.
Habib Muchsin chairs the advisory board of the Islamic Defenders Front, the self-appointed morality police whose attacks on bars, restaurants and minority groups smack of Afghanistan's Taliban and their Ministry of Vice and Virtue.
His stores preach organic virtue and profit from culinary vice.
Their experience is a virtue, not a vice, and should be encouraged in the years ahead.
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The people who went to court to close the magazine are members of a group called the Headquarters for Combating Vice and Promoting Virtue.
In reply to their critics, the Americans will argue that, in economics, thrift is often a vice and gluttony a virtue.
And where compromise is not a vice and where bipartisanship is a actually considered a virtue -- to be rewarded, not punished.
It's a gigantic man with a club or sword, meant to represent virtue, stepping on two sirens, representing vice and corruption.
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.
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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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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