Sentence examples for moral candidate from inspiring English sources

The toxins Mr. Vidal was identifying in 1960 as hovering threats on the democratic horizon are now confirmed facts of political life, so that this once-trenchant drama — concerning a battle for the nomination between a high-minded, deeply moral candidate and his canny, cutthroat rival — feels like a civics lesson drawn from a long out-of-date textbook.

Richard Land, who that fall had written that evangelicals ought to support a candidate they agreed with eighty per cent of the time on the moral issues, as opposed to one they agreed with a hundred per cent of the time, because the most moral candidate might divide the vote and allow the least moral to win, made it clear that Fred Thompson was his man.

Attacking the most moral candidate we've seen in quite some time is just an awful, embarrassing blundering misstep.

Hillary is the only reasonable, responsible, civil and moral candidate who will be on that stage at Hofstra University.

His advocates think Bernie Sanders is a moral candidate who refuses big money; his detractors describe him as a half-dotty old man.

"Given the fact that he votes along the Bush-Cheney line 90percentt of the time, which means he sees himself as a moral values candidate, I find his behavior completely, but not surprisingly, hypocritical.

In January, the New York Times made the political and moral case for candidate tax disclosure.

At the Heartland Presidential Forum, real people will ask real questions, not just about nitty gritty policy proposals but the broader moral vision each candidate would bring to the Oval Office.

But her political roots are considerably more outside the pale -- in her first turn on the national stage as a delegate to the 1960 Republican National Convention, Schlafly led a revolt of self-described "moral conservatives" following candidate Richard Nixon's embrace of more stringent language supporting civil rights in the party platform.

But don't make the easy assumption that politics would be more serious and more moral if all candidates were positive all of the time.

But it's not worth picking at the moral warts of candidates to the country's top jobs if that means keeping the best-qualified people out of those posts.