Preposition
by virtue of
(idiomatic) (originally) by the authority or power of; (now) because of; on the grounds of; by reason of.
Synonyms: based on, due to, in virtue of; see also Thesaurus:because of
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. Karl Marx
By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever. Laozi
To every object there corresponds an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject. Edmund Husserl
It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black. Will Smith
To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us in such a way that it is by virtue of those processes that we come to have knowledge of him. Alvin Plantinga
Nothing is comprehensible except by virtue of its edges. Hindi Proverb