Sentence examples for Moral tenets from inspiring English sources

Ethical Culture, a movement based upon the conviction that moral tenets need not be grounded in religious or philosophical dogma.

The Catholic Church has opposed that section of the bill, arguing it would force religious schools and hospitals to violate their moral tenets.

Opponents, backed principally by the Roman Catholic Church, say the bill is out of step with the moral tenets of the overwhelmingly Catholic Philippines and argue that a high birthrate lessens poverty.

Those two great men struggled against regimes that, while not equitable or unprejudiced, had a genuine respect for human life and a commitment to the rule of law and basic moral tenets.

They are basically the moral tenets of Stoicism, learned from Epictetus: the cosmos is a unity governed by an intelligence, and the human soul is a part of that divine intelligence and can therefore stand, if naked and alone, at least pure and undefiled, amid chaos and futility.

For now, we ponder two things: Mr. Obama's efforts to renew America's claim that it accords greater political weight to moral tenets grounded in reason than to the urgings of self-interest and lobbyists, and his winning combination of intelligence, compassion and charm.

A judicious choice of words can result in the perfect punchline, an incisive aphorism, a moral tenet, or, as in the case of a haiku-beauty.

She betrays him; his love for her threatens his every moral tenet, yet he clings to a belief in the redemptive power of love.

Wouldn't you like this intellectually brash ex-prosecutor -- someone ready to brawl at the drop of a moral tenet -- to run your state or country the way he runs his own city?

But if they truly felt strongly about a particular moral tenet -- what the researchers called a "sacred value" -- participants could refuse the money.

The losses will transcend material, territorial, or physical control, but inflict far more acute damage: the loss of the moral tenet that frees the individual of the responsibility to do what is right.