Sentence examples for enforce moral from inspiring English sources

The religious policemen enforce moral laws in the public sphere.

The Salafis are more open to using the laws to enforce moral codes.

Ignore, briefly, the fact that the last person to try to enforce "moral standards" in Soho was Shirley Porter.

Throughout the 1990s militants tried to enforce moral rectitude, bullying local women, for example, into wearing burqas.

Judge Walker wrote, however, that the Supreme Court has stated that government cannot enforce moral or religious beliefs without an accompanying secular purpose.

It becomes impossible to settle moral questions or to enforce moral rules; the best we can do is agree to disagree.

Students learned of an austere man who used physical repression to enforce morals and was intolerant in matters of theology, as when a fellow theologian, Michael Servetus, denied the Trinity and Calvin had him burned at the stake.

Moreover, there are some forms of legal moralism that do seem to justify enforcing moral norms, even though the behavior in question does not cause harm.

Father Welsh, the priest in "The Lonesome West," is so ineffectual at enforcing moral standards that his parish becomes, as he complains, "the murder capital of fecking Europe".

Justification for this self-censorship was found in the Production Code, a set of laxly enforced moral guidelines established in 1930 by the industry's trade organization, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America.

The dorms and food were a hellish nightmare, and the idiots in the herasat [a committee at each university responsible for enforcing moral values and standards] bothered everyone about hijab, makeup, eye shadow and what have you.