Another is that local councils, like many other public institutions in Brazil, are rarely temples of civic virtue.
Stephen Mackey, president and CEO of the Somerville Chamber of Commerce, said he's glad the business owners in his community excel at civic virtue.
The story goes that Civic Virtue's original home beginning in 1922 was fronting City Hall in Manhattan until then-Mayor Fiorello La Guardia got sick of being mooned every day.
By contrast, Mr Giddens's integrated political programme boils down to a list of conventional appeals to civic virtue, in which every bet is hedged and every hard choice ducked.
But if we gun guys are the paragons of civic virtue that we claim to be, why do we have to be ordered to lock up our guns or report a gun theft?
In a New York Times article from 1922, a woman from the National League of Women Voters said women should be placed not below but next to a man in any representation of civic virtue.
But a city like New Orleans, with its rebuilding challenges, its violence, its rich culture, the odd mix of civic virtue and corruption, and its long-term existential risks from hurricanes and rising seas, deserves a first-class newsgathering operation.
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Respect for privacy is a civic virtue, and many Americans choose to rise above Mr Clinton's sexual behaviour, not because they necessarily approve or disapprove, but because they feel it is none of their business unless it visibly affects his work.
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The book was heavy on polemics equating moral virtue and civic responsibility with military service.
But she says the statue itself is an allegorical image of virtue trying to resist the temptations of civic vice, depicted as two feminized sea creatures.
The cultivation of virtue has become a hot subject at universities, along with the related study of the civic institutions (the church, the family, local voluntary associations) which are thought to foster virtue best.
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