Sentence examples for moral constituency from inspiring English sources

Mr. Wallis said the religious leaders believed that a "moral constituency" was needed to focus attention on finding ways to alleviate poverty, especially for children's sake.

Their moral authority and their vast constituencies make them uniquely powerful allies for children.

This peace constituency, often driven by moral and political ideals, provides the key force behind the opposition to U.S. wars in their early stages.

For instance, Falun Gong's conservative moral beliefs have alienated some liberal constituencies in the West (e.g. its teachings against promiscuity and homosexual behavior).

He described her as a hardworking constituency MP with a "high moral standard" who had beaten a large field of candidates to be selected by the local party in 2005.

The analysis reveals a complex and interdependent interplay between attempts at securing pragmatic, moral and cognitive legitimacy with three key constituencies – clients who commission the sustainability assurance services; (socially constructed) non-client users of the assurance statements; and the firm's internal Risk Department that approves the wording of assurance statements.

The lobby's leaders this week portrayed their prosperous constituency as an underdog, in a moral struggle against Goliath: American farmers and corporations bent on doing business with Castro.

What does he expect, when the church he leads systematically violates the moral intuitions of most of its own natural constituency?

"This constituency prefers people that have followed various moral guidelines on a variety of issues," Mr. Bauer said.

Princeton University's president, Harold T. Shapiro, also argues that universities are too complex and face too many constituencies for a president to be the moral arbiter.

He cajoled colleagues, brokered negotiations, and spoke out publicly and passionately in terms that persuaded Sullivan, for one, that he saw repeal as "not just some constituency measure, or some minor matter — but a moral matter".