Sentence examples for moral discretion from inspiring English sources

"He was exercising personal, moral discretion," Professor Hazard said.

Some reasons commonly given for voluntary abstention are: The Bible warns that alcohol can hinder moral discretion.

(Raz, as noted above, rejected the latter possibility: when judges rely on moral considerations, they are exercising discretion, not making decisions required by law).

The aristocratic bent of Scudéry's virtue theory appears in her treatment of three moral virtues: magnanimity, politeness, and discretion.

U.S. Secret Service agents are also drilled almost from Day One on the need for probity, discretion and solid morals.

For other types of stranger shaming it's at the discretion of the photographer's moral compass.

But until last year, the state never explicitly said which crimes amounted to ones of "moral turpitude," giving local election officials wide discretion to block people from voting because of different crimes.

Using the discrimination index, four items were flagged, including items 4 and 6 (being able to hide an STI and not knowing an STI was present), item 10 (staff discretion) and item 16 (staff morals).

In business, some of the most basic moral principles are violated under the banner of discretion, privacy and efficiency.

Young people learned from an early age to present themselves differently as different social contexts required, and, importantly, to maintain discretion rather than strict adherence to moral norms [ 31].

Years before Roe v. Wade, Rand called abortion "a moral right which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved".