"moral intervention" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to an action taken to influence someone's behavior based on moral principles or beliefs. Example: After witnessing her friend cheat on a test, Sarah decided to have a moral intervention and talk to her about the importance of honesty.
In "Warrior Politics," completed months before Sept. 11, I use Churchill's support for a moral intervention in Sudan in the 1890's to justify the need for us to hunt down Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.
The seven Hamilton electors take a similar view, that the way the system was conceived by the founding fathers was to allow for the moral intervention by electoral college members precisely as a way of dealing with the kind of existential threat posed by a Trump figure.
And with chilling frequency, the most naturally-gifted public speaker of our times often seems an impartial drone; not only repeatedly succumbing to powerful corporate interests, but continuously offering neutered responses to issues that demand moral intervention.
Is it about the fact that our nobly intended moral interventions often have bizarre consequences?
In a quest for congressional support, the ever-cautious commander-in-chief found himself making sweeping arguments for moral interventions overseas, and hinting at tougher military action than he had previously planned.His own Democratic Party is split between left-wing doves and Obama loyalists.
If you have no idea what the endgame is, it is simply impossible to calculate the expected costs — strategic, political, financial, moral — of intervention.
Even the most "moral" of interventions is going to produce immoral actions beyond the actual killing.
Mr. Assad's crackdown, which has killed at least 6,000 civilians, has seized international attention and presented a vexing moral dilemma about intervention.
Speaking at the National Defense University, Obama used his first televised address since military operations began in Libya nine days ago to outline a moral rationale for intervention in civil conflicts such as the push underway to topple Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi.
Nor is it any coincidence that the moral frenzy about intervention in Sudan has coincided with the growing military debacle in Iraq - for as allied casualties in Iraq have mounted, so has indignation about the situation in Darfur.
Buchanan, A, From Nuremburg to Kosovo: The morality of illegal international legal reform, Ethics, vol. 111 no. 4 (2001), pp. 673-705, UnivereprintedChicago Press (reprinted, with minor changes in Humanitarian Intervention: Moral and Philosophical Issues, Aleksandar Jokic, ed. Broadview Press, 2003)., [doi].
