Sentence examples for moral justifications from inspiring English sources

This means, in concrete terms, no more seeking or demanding moral justifications, no more experiencing or trying to instill moral guilt, no more assuming or assigning moral responsibility, no more assessing moral desert or exacting just retribution, etc.

Bankers must understand that, after the billions pumped into the banking sector, there can be no financial or moral justifications for the obscene bonuses which are still being paid out.

These interpreters differed wildly in their efforts, sometimes highly fanciful, to resolve inconsistencies or apparent contradictions in the Bible's texts, to offer moral justifications for biblical behavior and draw lessons for their contemporaries.

Sin Son-ho, the North Korean representative to the United Nations, said during a United Nations conference on nuclear disarmament that the United States sought "absolute nuclear superiority" and had no "moral justifications" to lecture other countries about proliferation, according to North Korea's state media.

At this point, I merely refer you to Mary Anne Warren's chapter on Abortion and Human Rights in Moral Status: Obligations to Persons and Other Living Things, wherein she clearly explains the biological and moral justifications to not grant sentience, and therefore equal moral status, to first- and early second-trimester foetuses.

What – once more – makes populists distinctive is that they can engage in such practices openly and with moral justifications: after all, for them, only some people are really "the people" and hence deserving of the support by what is rightfully their state.

Moral justification is all.

Is there a moral justification?

And nor is there any moral justification.

There was no moral justification to Johnson's disclosure.

I saw no moral justification at all as a youth.