This is elementary morality.
He would have angrily denounced the use of torture, as a gross violation of elementary morality and of domestic and international law.
Perhaps there are good, prudential reasons for stopping short of prosecuting those who authorized this vile offense to elementary morality for the crimes against American and international law that it entailed.
QUESTION FROM MORRIS DAVIS: You wrote: "Perhaps there are good, prudential reasons for stopping short of prosecuting those who authorized this vile offense to elementary morality for the crimes against American and international law that it entailed".
"It is as clear as noonday that the inter-Korean relations will enter into another five years of collapse if the group of gangsters bereft of elementary ethics and morality is allowed to stay in power," said a commentary in Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of North Korea's ruling Workers Partyy.
"If everything is so nebulous about a matter so elementary as the morals of sex," says Dowell, baffled and despairing, "what is there to guide us in the more subtle morality of all other personal contacts, associations and activities?
The Bank of America settlement, Rakoff wrote, "does not comport with the most elementary notions of justice and morality".
He sided with protesters by openly, and unusually harshly, criticising the government and demanding new elections.The president's position is "dictated by elementary common sense and political morality," said Daniel Smilov, a political analyst at the Sofia-based think-tank, the Centre for Liberal Strategies.
The settlement, he wrote, "is not fair, first and foremost, because it does not comport with the most elementary notions of justice and morality, in that it proposes that the shareholders who were the victims of the bank's alleged misconduct now pay the penalty for that misconduct".
The settlement is not fair, he writes, "because it does not comport with the most elementary notions of justice and morality, in that it proposes that the shareholders who were the victims of the bank's alleged misconduct now pay the penalty for that misconduct".
I have always suspected younger people avoid political enthusiasm not because of apathy, but because, like being force-fed politically correct morality lessons in elementary school, they find something specious in it.
