Sentence examples for a moral argument for from inspiring English sources

So there is a selfish as well as a moral argument for making a deal.

She made a moral argument for rich people to pay their taxes.

It's time to lose New Labour's timidity in the face of tax and make a moral argument for it playing a bigger part in deficit reduction.

In the foreward, activist Bill McKibben makes a moral argument for divestment, saying: "If it's wrong to wreck the climate, then it's wrong to profit from that wreckage".

A rabbi, a Roman Catholic priest and a Baptist minister joined Senate Democrats in making a moral argument for the legislation.

Mr. Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, his voice rising as senator after senator moved slowly into the chamber, rejected the concerns of Republicans and made a moral argument for approval of the treaty.

He offered a forceful moral argument for a limited strike against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad for the use of chemical weapons on Aug. 21.

The expressivist argument is often defended by theorists who are staunchly pro-choice about abortion; they typically defend a woman's legal right to choose abortion for any reason, but present a moral argument against particular reasons for abortion.

And as those political leaders named denied any legal wrongdoing, a moral argument is gaining traction for widespread reform of the offshore tax system.

In the nineteenth century John Henry Newman (1870) also made good use of a moral argument in his case for belief in God, developing what could be called an argument from conscience.

Clearly there is a strong moral argument for helping the destitute ravaged by AIDS, in Africa or elsewhere.