Sentence examples for moral axis from inspiring English sources

There are vivid biographical vignettes of Washington's deputies, including Knox and General Nathanael Greene, and of foes like General William Howe Lord Richardd's brother) and George III, but Washington remains the moral axis around which the drama revolves.

In his novel "Shame," he had written about the workings of Muslim "honor culture," at the poles of whose moral axis were honor and shame, very different from the Christian narrative of guilt and redemption.

One solution to this crisis, Kapor Klein says, is offering what she calls an "alternative moral axis" to the dominant Silicon Valley model.

What is important, then, is the moral-ethical axis of one's motivations.

These books are not "revisionist," in the pejorative sense: they don't suggest a moral equivalence between the Axis and the Allies, or minimize Nazi crimes, or deny the Holocaust.

"Until now, there was a moral case for the Franco-German axis," Mr. Gros said.

But when the people protecting our safety tell us it's necessary, when television pundits debate the merits of torture, when your Facebook friends "like" reports about CIA officers threatening prisoners' families, then our moral base is jolted off its axis.

The leader of the Western world set moral guideposts — the "war on terror" and the "axis of evil" — to help distinguish between right and wrong, good guys and bad guys.

Informed by their left-wing politics, aiding the war effort against the Axis powers was as much of a moral vocation to Parsons, Forman and Malina as it was a practical one.

In practice, however, much contemporary discussions of relativism focus on subjectivism, historicism, cultural relativism and conceptual relativism, along the axis of y, and cognitive/epistemic relativism, ethical or moral relativism and aesthetic relativism, along the axis of x.

He was vehemently denounced ("a moral leper" who leads the "empire of the devil"), even as the White House was backing off and effectively downgrading the Axis of Evil to an Alliance of the Naughty.