Sentence examples for Standards of moral from inspiring English sources

For life, adults around them need to hold them to high standards of moral conduct.

Until Japan moves beyond narrow legalism and conforms to emerging standards of moral accountability, the nation will have few followers.

The Second World War was the Good War from the Allied perspective, but no nation escaped the vicious conflict with its standards of moral conduct unaltered.

Liberals, I would argue, should be pluralists, not relativists: their claim should be not that objective standards of moral behavior don't exist, but that public and private standards conflict.

Historically, Israel enjoyed peace and stability when it stopped occupying Arab lands and instead applied standards of moral equity and international legality to its relations with its Arab neighbors.

Moreover, the actor insisted, playing a character who held himself to such high standards of moral excellence (no drinking, no womanizing, not even splitting a recovered payroll with Tonto as a finder's fee) made him "a better person".

And there is no question, I think, that Smith aspired to provide such a standard of moral judgment, a structure for morality that reaches out across national and cultural borders.

So the standard of moral goodness declares one set of desires morally better than another, or declares them equally good; or declares one set of character traits better than another, or declares them equally good; or declares one career of actions better than another, or declares them equally good.

The Goldstone report won the gold standard of moral equivalence between the killer and the victim.

All this is but one reminder of how far major actors in the economy have strayed from any reasonable standard of moral behavior.

It has created a situation where we are held up to such a more rigorous standard of moral behaviour than men are, that it is we that are somehow to blame when our bodies have been violated without our consent.