Sentence examples for a moral device from inspiring English sources

O'Rourke asks the age-old question: "Why do some places prosper and thrive while others just suck?" He ultimately concludes, "I ended up looking at the free market as a moral device," noting that the Constitution is a free-market document, "though the electors and the elected sometimes forget it".

It may thus substitute for, e.g.,"strict" maximum duration limitations as a moral-hazard-containing device, which in the context of a comprehensive welfare state in any case may appear as a time-inconsistent – and thus empty – threat.

For a playwright who indulges in flagrant forays into sentimentality and contrived plot devices, he steers remarkably clear of a partisan view or a moral dialectic.

"A Moral Flip-Flop?

Foster a moral outlook.

NICHOLS: A moral issue.

It was a moral breach".

It's a moral principle.

"Optimism is a moral duty".

It is a moral issue.

We need a moral conscience.