Sentence examples for moral defense from inspiring English sources

I refuse to offer moral defense of what cannot be morally justified, only rationalized.

Now, in Barbara Ehrenreich's deeply satisfying book, I finally have a moral defense for my apparent scowl.

A brief coda emphasizes the character's pathos — and wonders if obeying orders is ever a valid moral defense — but makes empathy no easier.

And so the moral defense of the elimination of Comey came to rest on the character of Rosenstein, an obscure figure who has suddenly become a pivotal one.

When I asked him about the allegations against Moore, he offered no ethical or moral defense of his friend — nothing to do with God's law, only man's.

Clearly, the only moral defense would be a statement allying himself henceforth with the Chinese people and their century-and-a-half-old struggle to combine modernization with freedom.

"The Moral Defenses of the Physiocrats' Laissez-Faire".

His three major campaigns in 1920 22, 1930 34, and 1940 42 were well designed to engender that process of self-doubt and questioning that was to undermine the moral defenses of his adversaries and to contribute, together with the objective realities of the postwar world, to producing the grant of dominion status in 1947.

Moral: when defense and pork are allowed to mix, you're better off living in the sticks.

Kellyanne Conway, the White House counsellor, who became a pollster for Pence in 2009, describes him as "a full-spectrum conservative" on social, moral, economic, and defense issues.

At this point, the lion, his paws caked with blood, scraps of licensed apparel stuck in his fangs, turns to the donkey and says, "They call that defense?" Moral: You can't field a team with five pure shooters, quirky draft picks, and no inside presence and expect to win more than thirty-five games.