Sentence examples similar to assert ethical rectitude from inspiring English sources

But earnest as he is, to the point of attending doomed-cause rallies and donning "Defend the Earth" T-shirts, Queenan finds that tweaking today's mandarins of ethical rectitude is just too tempting.

The veteran actor Roger Rees gives an impeccably judged performance in the central role of Arthur, a man who appears to wear his ethical rectitude lightly, until it is challenged when his son is expelled from the naval academy where he has been studying.

Or might we yet assert our cherished rectitude and define our country against Putin's Russia once again?

Our society is also increasingly anxious — do you think it's ethical to assert that popping Vicodin is O.K. for anyone who can afford it, "in a consumer society like ours"?

In "Systems of Survival," she asserts that our ethical frameworks have grown out of the fact that there are two ways that human beings ensure their survival: taking and trading.

The lapses in logic aside, it's chilling to assert that it's more ethical to starve a handicapped person if that person is blind.

For the United States to set ethical norms and assert a moral high ground, it must first hold the technological high ground.

If Religionists ever produced a high fluttering ethical rule, Humanists may assert the rule as their own because, for Humanists, no God ever gave humanity a moral decree.

An annual ethics refresher course recommended by the Siegal Committee should be instituted to leave less room for staffers to assert they didn't know the paper's ethical guidelines had prohibited something they had done or approved.

We can also assert that some laws are formulated from certain ethical features that are deemed fundamental to societal living and human co-existence.

"Draping yourself in the blanket of moral rectitude and asceticism allows you to assert superiority over a monarch," she told me.