Sentence examples for moral erosion from inspiring English sources

Voices for moderation are maligned as agents of moral erosion.

All that drilling and scarring, all that animosity and moral erosion lead to one year's supply of natural gas and the waste of billions of gallons of water.

This so-called moral erosion is not inherent in my generation: it is the consequence of deep-rooted factors within society – and in some ways it might be beneficial.

Gabriella Giandelli's eerie meditation on the life of a building, Interiorae, and Gipi's chronicle of moral erosion, Notes For a War Story, were unknown to me a week ago, but are now on my wish-list.

One might think that increased wariness in this privacy-free era would offset whatever moral erosion has occurred in the last 20 years, leaving culture with the same net number of blockbuster scandals per election cycle.

But Mr. Keating, likening the church's extraordinary crisis to the period of moral erosion that preceded the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century, said his panel, with the backing of Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, of Belleville, Ill., the president of the the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, intended to arouse the moral indignation of the Catholic faithful.

The erosion is moral as well as literal.

Did they envision the erosion of moral fiber that would be wrought by a discreet plastic doohickey?

The trial has set off a national debate about the erosion of moral values and the state's ability to protect underprivileged children.

Research also shows that it is much easier to step over the boundary from ethical to unethical when there is a gradual erosion of moral values and principles rather than one big leap.

But opponents, who include senior Roman Catholic, Jewish and Muslim leaders, say that by replacing father and mother with "parents," the law alters the natural order of procreation and will lead to moral confusion and the erosion of the centuries-old institution of marriage in the name of a small minority.