Sentence examples for moral excuse from inspiring English sources

Pétain gave the French a moral excuse; he encouraged selfdeception as to German intentions, and he declared business as usual a patriotic duty.

We should send every dollar we can to help these countries fight Ebola; there is no moral excuse for anything less than a total commitment.

According to Claudia Card, an institution, in sense (2), i.e., a social practice, is evil if it is reasonably foreseeable that intolerable harm will result from its normal or correct operation without justification or moral excuse (2002, 20; 2010, 18, 27 35).

But regardless of the post-election crisis's origin or the crimes by Gbagbo's forces, there was no legal or moral excuse for the pro-Ouattara forces' many crimes against perceived Gbagbo supporters.

I note that on many accounts self defence is a more readily acceptable moral justification or excuse for killing an attacker than is defending the lives of others (at least, others who are not members of one's family or close friends).

No amount of retrospective moral gymnastics can excuse or contextualise that.

Only you can push your business forward and it is only you who is making excuses (moral licencing) to compensate for lack of growth.

By contrast, a finding of excuse expresses moral condemnation for the defendant's act; the defendant is "excused" on the basis of some serious moral or psychological defect.

But this monumental moral failure doesn't excuse us from doing what we can to stop Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi from bombing the people in Libya who are trying to liberate themselves from his brutal grip.

Is Hakim seriously suggesting that prostitution should be legalised, that surrogate pregnancy is an untapped income stream for women, that pimping is a good thing ("a win-win arrangement") and that the extent of human trafficking has been whipped up by the media to provide "the latest excuse for moral panics and crusades over the sex industry".

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