What's the difference between furtherance and virtue?
Furtherance
Definition:
(n.) The act of furthering or helping forward; promotion; advancement; progress.
Example Sentences:
(1) We do not believe it contributes to or furthers the discussion I had hoped for,” he said.
(2) They alter most immune functions and create a state of immunity deficiency; they damage the tubules which may lead to interstitial fibrosis and increased postglomerular capillary resistance furthering the trapping of macromolecules in the glomeruli; and they probably increase tissue permeability to macromolecules.
(3) As newer brain imaging techniques that are sensitive to function are developed, this line of enquiry holds considerable promise for furthering our understanding of the anatomy and physiology of emotion.
(4) It is assumed that the dominant fungi may play a part in the etiopathogeny of the bronchial asthma of workers in such silos but investigations should be furthered before reaching a final conclusion.
(5) The study of the 40 Hz activity of the brain which was begun by Adrian (1942) has been furthered for the past years with several new approaches: A neural model for the generation of 40 Hz activity in attention has been published by Freeman (1975) whereas new possibilities in clinical applications and exploration of cognitive processes in an extended manner was proposed by Galambos and coworkers (1981).
(6) Interpreting these earlier positions furthers therapeutic growth.
(7) The histamine inhalation test showed that the PC20 value and beta-receptor function of the lymphocyte of the controls were furtherly decreased in the anaphase of the attack season, while those of the WYP group were slightly increased in the same phase.
(8) But after reviewing it over the past few days with the Tribeca film festival team and others from the scientific community, we do not believe it contributes to or furthers the discussion I had hoped for.
(9) A network of support organizations has been formed through which the development of quality assurance in health care is furthered.
(10) Under federal law, that looks a lot like possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
(11) Probably not, but it seemed like an admission from Van Gaal that his defence felt inadequate, and his half-time removal of Bruno Martins Indi furthered the impression.
(12) In addition, the role of crack use in furthering transmission of sexually transmitted diseases has been documented, and the implications for AIDS transmission have been speculated on.
(13) This far better than usual outcome is being furthered by setting up satellite nutrition clinics.
(14) Furthering their research into the differentiation of various haemoglobins (both human and animal) with the use of thin layer chromatographic methods, the Authors have applied Kaiser's high performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC) to the specific diagnosis of blood.
(15) It is speculated from this small study that the IgA levels rise in benign prostatic hyperplasia; in early adenocarcinoma of the prostate (Stages A and B) the rise if furthered, while in the late stages (Stages C and D) the levels fall.
(16) The plan had been to interact with the local youth, both inside and outside the high walls of the juvenile detention centres, to the furtherance of more positive lifestyles and better relationships between the police and these young offenders.
(17) Here we have furthered these observations to the level of gene induction by measuring messenger RNA (mRNA) levels for the following proteins: interleukin-2 (IL-2) and IL-2R alpha; p53, a tumour suppressor protein; the transcription factor krox-24; and two mediators of protein folding, namely cyclophilin and the heat-shock protein hsc70.
(18) In addition to these clinical applications, blood substitutes will be useful in furthering our understanding of basic oxygen transport physiology.
(19) Personal and scientific creative processes are largely furthered by dreaming.
(20) The compounds had not a calcium antagonistic activity, if compared with other well known DHP utilized as standard, so the pharmacological tests were not furtherly studied.
Virtue
Definition:
(n.) Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
(n.) Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency; efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine.
(n.) Energy or influence operating without contact of the material or sensible substance.
(n.) Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character; purity of soul; performance of duty.
(n.) A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of temperance, of charity, etc.
(n.) Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of women; virginity.
(n.) One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Enough with Clintonism and its prideful air of professional-class virtue.
(2) Dermatoglyphic alterations in schizophrenic patients are considered in virtue of literature data and the author's own investigations.
(3) Since the enzyme requires a metal ion (Co2+) we suggest that the RNA and heparin are inhibitory by virtue of their capacity to chelate the Co2+.
(4) Given the liberalist context in which we live, this paper argues that an act-oriented ethics is inadequate and that only a virtue-oriented ethics enables us to recognize and resolve the new problems ahead of us in genetic manipulation.
(5) The results indicate that ACTH can alter pain sensitivity and that the effect of corticosteroids on the sensitivity to pain is an indirect one by virtue of their negative feed-back action on the hypothalamic-pituitary system.
(6) This test by virtue of its high sensitivity and the facilities in processing a large number of specimens, can prove to be useful in endemic areas for the recognition of asymptomatic malaria and screening of blood donors.
(7) The fitting element to a Cabrera victory would have been thus: the final round of the 77th Masters fell on the 90th birthday of Roberto De Vicenzo, the great Argentine golfer who missed out on an Augusta play-off by virtue of signing for the wrong score.
(8) The corresponding delta FeCO modes are identified at 574 and 566 cm-1, respectively, by virtue of the zigzag pattern of their isotopic shifts.
(9) All lesions but one were located extradurally, and patients with Stage D2 disease, by virtue of bony metastases, were therefore at greatest risk for development of neurologically compressive disease.
(10) By virtue of the technique, minimal incision surgery lends itself to a greater risk of causing epidermal inclusion cysts.
(11) Tumors of ceruminous gland origin appear to have a distinctive clinical behavior by virtue of their unique anatomical location in the external auditory canal.
(12) Proteases substituted with biotin were targeted via the cationic protein avidin A, which by virtue of its charge has affinity for the glomerular basement membrane.
(13) The study is based on 220 children from 91 families at high- and low-risk for major depression by virtue of the presence or absence of major depression in their parents.
(14) Our findings indicate that DFO has antileukemic properties by virtue of its effects on proliferation and differentiation, and they prompt further experimental and clinical studies with this agent.
(15) He will only be able to satisfy all the expectations if he masters, by virtue of his training and experience, the art of setting up a treatment plan with priorities.
(16) Although it is less selective than D-[3H]aspartate, DL-[3H]AP5 and [3H]NMDA, L-[3H]glutamate remains, by virtue of its high affinity, the ligand of choice for the study of NMDA receptors in preparations where such sites predominate.
(17) We postulated that the contraction by virtue of focal calcium release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) and was stimulated this process together with the processes of diffusion into the cytosol, binding to calmodulin and troponin, sequestration by the SR, and subsequent induction of Ca2+ release from the adjacent SR.
(18) Murdoch had one on his, of course, but because he was facing hostile interrogation he looked (unfairly) as if he were wearing it in self-protection as a symbol of his own virtue.
(19) Second, by virtue of their effects against rigor and spasticity, NMDA antagonists may reduce increased muscle tone and prevent rhabdomyolysis.
(20) Most critical are (a) how hardiness is to be measured; (b) whether hardiness should be treated as a unitary phenomenon or as three separate phenomena associated with commitment, control, and challenge; and (c) whether hardiness has direct effects on health or indirect effects by virtue of buffering the impact of stressful life events.