Sentence examples for a moral cause from inspiring English sources

He summarizes this conclusion by saying that our body does not act on our soul as a "physical cause (cause physique)" but only as a "moral cause (cause morale)" (Examen, OA, 38 150).

The president tried to make the case that this is a moral cause and that Americans must practice their own morality to win all around.

For Mr Tadic, he says, finding the ex-general was a moral cause.

Yet his father's death had made Joel Mosbacher, if not a better rabbi, a rabbi with a moral cause.

Lord Blair, the crossbencher and former Metropolitan police commissioner The Bill represents a great and noble cause what the noble Lord, Lord Fowler, described as a moral cause.

No other president had made the issue of equality for Negroes so frankly a moral cause to himself and all Americans".

Implicit in this story is a radical and rather insane notion that there is a moral cause-and-effect to everything, even bad weather.

If, at that moment, Clooney mistook a media dustup for a moral crusade — a feud for a cause — he then found, in Darfur, a cause of overwhelming moral seriousness.

Politically, both Presidents have downplayed it — Bush by creating a false image of a clear moral cause demanding relatively little sacrifice, Obama by talking about it as little as possible.

She describes it as "a movement dressed in the guise of a modern, moral cause that worships all things natural".

Part of what Lincoln teaches us is that to pursue the highest ideals and a deeply moral cause requires you also engage and get your hands dirty.