Sentence examples for impermissible acts from inspiring English sources

She criticizes the tendency of bioethicists to draw lines between morally permissible and impermissible acts in this way, and recommends instead a "reverse ethics" approach which focuses on the contextual factors that lead specific groups to place boundaries where they do.

The irony is that, as Dreeben pointed out to the Court, that phrase was actually meant to distinguish a politician's legitimate feelings of "general gratitude," as the Court put it in a 2013 case, from the impermissible act of swapping a political favor for money.

We can't talk with the students to help them negotiate the line between permissible and impermissible sexual acts, simply because for us all are impermissible.

If my maxim fails this test, as this one does, then it is morally impermissible for me to act on it.

But how can a series of individually permissible acts be collectively impermissible?

The Supreme Court thus affirmed the ruling of the Fifth Circuit and struck down the act as an impermissible exercise of congressional power under the commerce clause.

By contrast, active (voluntary) euthanasia is said to be morally impermissible because it requires an unjustifiable intentional act of killing in order to satisfy the patient's request (cf., for example, Finnis, 1995; Keown in Jackson and Keown 2012).

But the fact that most acts of war by unjust combatants are objectively impermissible does not entail that unjust combatants are blameworthy or deserving of punishment.

Some of these individual cells drew the line between permissible actions to achieve their political goals and impermissible actions that involved destruction of property and other provocative acts.

The main exception is when just combatants are acting impermissibly, for example by pursuing their just goals by impermissible means.

Here simply note that the bare illegality of their act of torture does not render it morally impermissible, given it was otherwise morally permissible.