Sentence examples for moral contest from inspiring English sources

Their economic clash is a moral contest: greedy corporate America versus the don't-fence-me-in values of the Old West.

The heated reactions to such willfully repellent fiction can be easily caricatured as a shallow moral contest, with the decency brigade squaring off against the noble forces of art.

After every long-bearded, pointy-eared thing has been said and done, after every hobbity madrigal has been crooned, every unfunny pipe-smoking bit of business complete and every Elvish phrase solemnly intoned - subtitled, not dubbed - has this film anything meaningful to say about war, or about the eternal moral contest with evil?

But a thousand bucks versus a moral imperative – no contest.

Racing is a business, an art, an athletic contest, a moral and a spiritual test.

British traders and soldiers had supplied Indian tribes and afforded them moral support in their contest with the advancing U.S. frontier.

In any deliberative contest between a moral obligation and some other consideration, the moral obligation will always win out, according to the morality system.

The new support, he said, is meant "to give Abbas a moral victory over Hamas in the contest between violence and diplomacy.

First, the intensification of migratory movements from poorer to richer countries in the context of growing inequalities between North and South has led some authors to contest the state's moral right to choose its members by selectively closing its borders.

One of its leaders asserted, "The Liberty Party, unlike any other in history, was founded on moral principles — on the Bible, originating a contest not only against slavery but against atheistic politics from which Divine law was excluded".

Moral philosophy, as George describes it, is a contest between the Greek philosopher Aristotle and the Scottish enlightenment thinker David Hume.