Sentence examples for decline of moral from inspiring English sources

Maggie brews tea; Bill sings folk songs to his own guitar accompaniment and complains about the decline of moral standards.

"There is a sense that a lot of what happened — not all of it, but a lot — had to do with lapses of theological orthodoxy and the decline of moral life that went with it," Father Markey said.

I'm not so sure that this incident, and many others, illustrates a decline of moral character as much as it demonstrates, in an age of hyper-infotainment, how we are bombarded with every detail of scandalous behavior.

His impassioned articles and speeches and interviews and tweets now centered on income inequality in the United States, climate change, the collapse of Greece, tax reforms, greed on Wall Street, the decline of moral standards, chaos in the euro zone, gun control, and the political vacuum in Washington.

He said: Every country has their people that they blame for everything from the decline of morals among the young to traffic problems.

I have been studying the decline of morals in this country.

I was told my cavalier attitude about sex was symptomatic of the decline of morals in this country, that "all you casual sex liberated women" make it difficult for other women -- good women -- to find men who will commit to them.

It was probably this, in large measure, that caused social critics in the tradition of Lasch to speak of Americans as undergoing "catastrophic cultural decline, loss of moral bearings, and a surfeit of hedonistic self-indulgence".

But as a conservative Frum placed the emphasis on the decline of traditional moral values.

Did the loss of the British Empire owe nothing to the rise of nationalism and the decline of the moral respectability of colonialism?

Many of Senator and possibly President Obama's close retainers and acolytes may cringe at the thought of channeling Richard Nixon -- but they will need his approach to global affairs in a time marked by the globally perceived decline of American moral, military and economic leadership.