The phrase "moral barrier" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe any situation in which an individual or group is prevented from taking certain action due to a moral or ethical issue. For example: "John refused to accept the bribe, no matter how generous it was, due to a moral barrier."
In this very masculine world, there still seems to be no question of a female villain, and despite being notionally on different sides of the moral barrier, all these variously unhappy, insecure and dadless males – Spider-Man, Harry, Electro – are pretty much on the same team.
So are the well-educated.In this section Shopaholics wanted Tied to the mast Thirst-quenching Sleep therapy Duties call Counter insurgency Can pay, won't pay Deliver us from competition Reprints Related items The foreclosure plan: Can't pay or won't pay?Feb 19th 2009Anger about bail-outs of banks or carmakers does not weaken the moral barrier to default.
But a moral barrier can be overcome only by moral suasion.
He's probably also correct that our puritanism about charities is a moral barrier to our using these methods.
Among the porn stars I spoke to, there's a weird consensus that there's a lower moral barrier to entering porn for Jews.
The survey suggests that the moral barriers to strategic default erode significantly once the mortgage exceeds a home's value by at least 20percentt.
His words and actions on race and deportations have erected new moral barriers to any pragmatic turn toward working with him.
This makes no sense, but these ideas are very convenient for those who aspire to managerial politics; they remove moral barriers to manipulation and coercion.
Once you've accepted the rules of this game – that all that matters is selling another policy – there are no moral barriers.
But unintended consequences, and particularly economic forces, have played perhaps an even bigger role in arranging the new sexual landscape: certain moral barriers drop, and then capitalism rushes in with, say, Internet porn, stoking old desires and creating new ones.
It turned out, then, that summer, that the moral barriers that I had supposed to exist between me and the dangers of a criminal career were so tenuous as to be nearly nonexistent.
