Sentence examples for contemporary moral values from inspiring English sources

He argued that the failed move to abolish capital punishment in Connecticut showed that "the death penalty no longer comports with the legislature's understanding of contemporary moral values".

Le Romancier et ses personnages (1933; "The Novelist and His Characters") and the four volumes of his Journal (1934 51), followed by three volumes of Mémoires (1959 67), tell much of his intentions, his methods, and his reactions to contemporary moral values.

He challenged the moral values of his contemporaries and refused to go along with unjust demands of tyrants, often obstructing their plans when he could.

In much of the contemporary world and inasmuch as it tends to organize the production of moral values, scientific knowledge, the family, art, etc. this structure is the economic practice of commodity production and consumption.

Like Sterne's contemporary, Adam Smith, the novel portrays the "good soldier" as a touchstone of the moral values of fellow-feeling and self-sacrifice.

Consumerism, divorce, drugs, Harry Potter, prostitution, Twitter, relativism, Big Brother, lack of moral compass, lack of community cohesion, lack of moral values, vajazzling – all can be lumped together and explained by the word secular, a kind of contemporary contraction of heathen and barbarian, with undertones of greed, perfidity and vulgarity.

Moral values are collapsing, too.

"These are violations of our moral values".

Such were Sue's moral values.

Part of the Moral Values Festival.

I believed in your moral values.