Sentence examples for a moral fault from inspiring English sources

He denied committing any crime but admitted a "moral fault".

"Even for people on the social and political right, it's a fault — a moral fault".

As it is thought a weakness in a man to care a great deal about how he looks, it is a moral fault in a woman not to care "enough".

When Strauss-Kahn returned to France in September, he told French TV there was "nothing violent, no aggression, no constraint" in his encounter with Diallo, calling it a moral fault.

Cahuzac used the same phrase as Strauss-Kahn had in a TV appearance to refer to the encounter with the hotel worker, saying his lie and secret account was a "moral fault".

Earlier this month, in his first interview since the trial collapsed, Strauss-Kahn said there was no "aggression or constraint" involved, but admitted he was guilty of a "moral fault".

"Even for people on the social and political right, it's a fault a moral fault".

Mr. Cahuzac was preliminarily indicted on tax fraud charges, and in a statement on Tuesday, President François Hollande criticized him for "an unpardonable moral fault" in lying to "the country's highest authorities".

Mr Hollande described Mr Cahuzac's lies as an "unforgivable moral fault", and vowed to bring in new laws to clean up French political life.

A criminal's sentence should turn on his moral fault, not his uncertain propensity for violence.

It underscores an unsettling fact about moral life — that the distribution of moral fault in the world depends, in many ways, on good and bad luck.