Sentence examples for be a moral example from inspiring English sources

Khodorkovsky, who hardly set out to be a moral example, has been elevated by his persecutors.

(Will the happily married Mel fall prey to the foxy journalist's advances? Of course not: his job is to be a moral example).

Commentators generally identify humanity (that which makes us distinctively human beings and sets us apart from all other animal species) with two closely related aspects of rationality: the capacity to set ends and the capacity to be autonomous, both of which are capacities to be a moral agent (for example, Wood 1999, Korsgaard 1996, Hill 1997).

The consumptive prostitute, for example, could be a moral deviant redeemed by suffering and death.

But Dr. Coffin said he was only setting a moral example.

"What he did was to set a moral example, and that had a big effect on the people," Mr. Wang said.

As powerful as exhortation and pleas for human rights may be, the power of wealthy countries in setting a moral example is potentially more influential.

For example, is a moral being a being that makes moral judgements or a being that is morally good?

It is her privilege to set a Moral Example, chiefly in her refusal to purchase Ivanka Trump shoes.

There is a moral here: As Adams's example shows, integrity in a chief executive can be an overrated virtue.

Cruelty, for example, presumably is a moral concept but intuitively someone can believe that an action would be cruel and simply not give a damn.