Sentence examples for moral burdens from inspiring English sources

His deductions are necessarily too tentative to be fully satisfying, but they do illuminate the moral burdens the inhabitants carried throughout the occupation.

Certainly, the ease of making images with video is bringing changes in moviemaking and the experience of moviegoing; film frames (even home movies) seem to carry the equivalent of a painting's frame, connecting them even unconsciously to the tradition of high art — with all the political and moral burdens it entails.

Saying some European countries had failed to "assume their moral burdens," French President Francois Hollande said he had agreed with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on "a permanent and obligatory mechanism" to allocate refugees across the bloc.

In a pointed February column, New York Times writer David Brooks discussed the rise of secularism and questioned the "unprecedented moral burdens" people put on themselves by forsaking religion.

There is no decision in this portfolio free of moral burden, he says.

But for the people who do that there's an accumulated moral burden".

A trio of women (Michelle Williams, Zoe Kazan, and Shirley Henderson) take on the moral burden of the journey along with its physical burdens.

This is a piteous and exposing process, and one which places a moral burden on the reader.

The British may have conquered an Empire, but it is the English who carry the moral burden of it.

The regime's reliance on "mutual surveillance" complicated their moral burden, instilling feelings of shame and guilt that endured long after years of imprisonment and exile.

The social and environmental costs, the moral burden, the threat to individual health — all seem increasingly hard to justify when weighed against a tenderloin.