Sentence examples for moral balance from inspiring English sources

Look at the moral balance sheet, he urged, look at the moral balance sheet.

But if the moral balance was simple, the story was anything but.

To heal them, we must repair the broken moral balance that let this chaos loose.

Fowler suits Ms. Rendell's purposes beautifully in a book that maintains a delicately moral balance.

This is because we naturally seek to maintain a moral balance between good and bad deeds.

Faced with the weekend's mass protests, No 10 again said: "There is another side to the moral balance sheet.

Those are a convenient pair of opinions, of course: the moral balancing would be far trickier if the C.I.A. methods were demonstrated to have been crucial in disrupting major plots.

Oddly, Anton seems to require no such moral balancing for the Sri Lankan strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is commended for resisting Iranian pressure and green-lighting the filming of Midnight's Children; the responsibility of this authoritarian president and his brother in the massacre of tens of thousands of Tamil Hindus is passed over in silence.

It may mean simply that there is no moral balancing across individuals that requires individuals to sacrifice for others or that justifies others in imposing such sacrifices.

The "fact of our separate existences" is "the fact that that no moral balancing act can take place among us" (because costs and benefits add up within persons' lives and not across them).

Even though all agreed the decision to join a MAT should be "more moral than balance sheets" – as Kamal Hanif, chief executive of Waverley Education Foundation, put it – finances remained a concern.