in virtue of

Well, you can think about how much better is the world in virtue of having that particular beautiful creature.

He believes that calling abortion murder “dilutes the humanity of women in virtue of a religious belief.”

It is someone, not something, in virtue of there being “something it is like” to be that creature, in the words of philosopher Thomas Nagel.

But when Water ascends by Suction in a Pump, or other Instrument, that Motion, being contrary to that which is wonted, is made in virtue of a more Catholick Law of Nature, by which ’tis provided, that a greater Pressure, which in our case the Water suffers from the weight of the Incumbent Air, should surmount a lesser, such as is here the Gravity of the Water, that ascends in the Pump or Pipe.

“The Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Qatar exchanged, today, January 20, 2021, two official memoranda, in virtue of which the two countries agreed to resume diplomatic relations,” an Egyptian Foreign Ministry statement said.