Sentence examples for ethical defeat from inspiring English sources

These victories add up to our moral implosion, the ethical defeat of a society that now engages in no self-inspection, that wallows in self pity over postponed airline flights and burnishes itself with the pride of the enlightened.

Mr. Rangel, faced with a newly drawn district and ongoing concerns over his ethical transgressions, defeated four opponents to secure the Democratic nomination for what would be his 22nd term in Congress.

But Ms. Newman-Limata of the New York State group said that she had raised a series of ethical concerns and tried to defeat the plan.

However, there is a risk that trying to de-Hinduize yoga as some secularist critics have done, render it free of its ethical and philosophical underpinnings, will defeat its true potential for social change.

If, as a novelist, you start with ethical and moral certainty, you quickly defeat yourself.

The Hippias Minor shows Socrates defeating a sophist on an ethical matter: whether it is better to do wrong voluntarily or in ignorance.

The Jewish establishment of Pittsburgh attempted to influence the Presbyterians' ethical financial decisions, dedicating many months to defeating these resolutions.

Penetration testers are ethical hackers who by both reasonable and unreasonable methods try to defeat the digital defences set up by companies to keep out spammers, scammers and other cyber-villains.

After all, the most important court in the country has finally imposed the first and foremost defeat of one of the icons of Brazil's current ethical and political disaster.

But on Sept. 30, five weeks before the election, Mr. Torricelli withdrew because of ethical problems that he and his party's leaders feared would drag him down to defeat.

He was ethical too, bringing down the government of Harriet Jones (Prime Minister) for destroying the defeated aliens leaving on their "golden bridge".