Sentence examples for moral device from inspiring English sources

O'Rourke asks the age-old question: "Why do some places prosper and thrive while others just suck?" He ultimately concludes, "I ended up looking at the free market as a moral device," noting that the Constitution is a free-market document, "though the electors and the elected sometimes forget it".

It may thus substitute for, e.g.,"strict" maximum duration limitations as a moral-hazard-containing device, which in the context of a comprehensive welfare state in any case may appear as a time-inconsistent – and thus empty – threat.

Its moral and principal dramatic device holds that being a Genie, despite all the song and dance, is a tough gig.

But the artists who look most magnetic today are the ones who made something personal of various trends that pooled up in the city and sustained a sense of art as moral instrument, a seismic device for transmitting political and spiritual moods.

In their seminal paper, Shapiro and Stiglitz (1984) showed that unemployment can represent a "worker discipline device" in moral hazard contexts.

Expressivists of all sorts think that moral sentences are conventional devices for expressing pro and con attitudes towards their objects.

These theorists combine the positive claims of expressivism that moral sentences are conventional devices for the expression of pro-attitudes and that moral attitudes are (partly) non-cognitive with features of cognitivism that moral sentences predicate properties and that moral attitudes are (partly) cognitive.

At issue, however, are not the usual moral suspects: pharmaceutical manufacturers, medical device makers and hospitals.

Yet Aesop and Orwell humanised animals as a device to tell moral tales.

Clearly Saeterbakken has gone well out of his way to sweep the stage of this moral drama clean of any devices that might make it conventionally "entertaining".

It's a strategic biological device, a piece of moral machinery that enables genetically related individuals to reap the benefits of co-operation".