A safer, if less principled, path to re-election would be for him to topple the colonel quickly, with less scruple for the sensitivity of allies and the letter of the law.
The Vote Leave campaign and its less reputable sidekick, Leave EU, which has less scruple about playing the immigration card, are financed by hedge fund managers and gamblers, literal and metaphorical, people whose own lives will not be much damaged if a win for Brexit delivers the recession and worse that Cameron predicts.
Here was a woman with scruples less developed than her own, someone who had chosen to be not frightened but entertained by her new neighborhood, someone who soldiered on with her elective surgery even when her best friend got a diagnosis of cancer.
There's nothing like a cold, dark January commute followed by yet another pitch preparation for a brand or business with less than ideal business scruples to make any media professional question their career choice.
However much we rejoice in victory, he wrote, "we shall not soon purge ourselves of the feeling of guilt which prevails among us.... What a precedent for the future we have furnished to other nations even less concerned than we with scruples or ideals!
However much we rejoice in victory, he wrote, "we shall not soon purge ourselves of the feeling of guilt which prevails among us... What a precedent for the future we have furnished to other nations even less concerned than we with scruples or ideals!
That's all you can ask for, ordinarily, and you're likelier to get it from European directors, who are traditionally less burdened than we Yanks with scruples about making beauty out of evil, decay, even death itself.
The deeper you go, as a writer, into the minds of your characters - the more detailed and refined your registration of their thoughts, feelings, sensations, memories, scruples - the slower the narrative tempo becomes, and the less action there is.
Writers make private life public — that's more or less the job description — and we have to do it with all the scruples at our command.
China has fewer scruples.
