Sentence examples for moral caution from inspiring English sources

And while the drama may have been deemed too risky for the US version of the History Channel, the same moral caution does not apply internationally: it will be licenced to the channel's counterparts in 30 territories worldwide, including the UK.

This is what Jesus foresaw for the scribes and the Pharisees, and the moral caution bristles with rank and smellable detail under the painter's touch, from the begging bowl at one man's waist to the orbless, accusing eyes that another turns on us, in pleading or rebuke.

Ryken said that while the drugs to be covered are not all abortive drugs, Wheaton College would rather "err on the side of moral caution".

Spark's brilliantly absurd plot contains strong moral cautions.

Impunity even for "repeat offenders" sends a message "that it is risk-free to misappropriate public funds on a huge scale and the state has no moral authority to caution against wrongdoing", said Kilonzo, adding that the public was increasingly offended by corruption but had not yet organised to take action.

Rieff is right to caution against moral messianism on the part of the rich world, and he is right to question simplistic fables about distant conflicts.

There is a part of all of us that wishes we didn't have to play by the rules; that wishes we could indulge in remorseless self-interest; that wishes we could throw caution and morals to the wind and purely pursue our wants and desires for our own sake.

These principles must be accompanied by prudence for as he cautions "there can be no political morality without prudence; that is, without consideration of the political consequences of seemingly moral action" (ibid).. Prudence, and not conviction of one's own moral or ideological superiority, should guide political action.

Visitors should exercise caution, check their moral qualms at the border and behave as polite guests.

But if the moral is seen as a caution about due process and the structures of reconciliation that preserve us as a polity, then the story illustrates the bewitching ease with which we sometimes get cause and effect precisely backwards.

While welcoming the strong rational arguments presented by the panel guests, another member David Cross cautioned that the moral and ethical argument on divestment had not yet been won.