Sentence examples for moral indicators from inspiring English sources

Materialism, the Internet, modern media, and TV preachers themselves have already done a good job of doing that, especially in the red states (more religious) whose statistics on divorce, teenage pregnancy, and other such "moral" indicators are significantly worse than those of blue states (less religious).

For the past half-century, this country has tended to think of the state of the nuclear family as a leading moral indicator.

The writer is at City University London, studying for an MA in journalism Cats, it appears, are a 21st-century moral indicator.

Voters might conclude that the deep-seated causes are not poverty, discrimination and austerity the riots took place in a country whose government currently spends half of its national income but welfare dependency, broken homes and moral nihilism.An indicator of how broad such a reaction might be is readily available.

Modification indices indicated some specified error terms to co-vary and two cross loading from subjective norms and moral norms to indicators of intention.

Within puritan/romantic theocracy "good taste" is a crucial moral quality and indicator of spiritual merit (Campbell).

Multi-factor productivity growth was highest between 1928-1950, and in general was much higher from 1890-1950 than from 1980 on, though it has picked up again since 1996.The rest of Mr Brooks's column criticises high rates of out-of-wedlock births and other vague indicators of moral malaise.

The mixed methods design used to analyze the results led to the conclusion that pro-environmental behavior values and moral competencies are important indicators of the ability to recognize opportunities for sustainable development.

The conduct of sex is, as always, a handy indicator of moral standing.

It is hard not to notice how Ibsen's characters are obsessed with retaining — or achieving — a solid grasp on financial security, seeing it as both a necessity of survival and an indicator of moral worth.

Hence, "the fact that something is disgusting is not even remotely a reliable indicator of moral foul play" but is instead "irrelevant to moral justification" (148).