Sentence examples for moral monopoly from inspiring English sources

There is no moral monopoly".

Radio 4 predicted that monogamy would lose its "moral monopoly" within 10 years.

The use of that power had awful consequences for women, for children, for artists, for anyone who fell foul of the church's moral monopoly.

By the late 1960's, though, the mass media and the country's economic integration with the rest of Europe had begun to change how the people of Ireland saw themselves, said Tom Inglis, a sociologist and the author of "Moral Monopoly: The Rise and Fall of the Catholic Church in Modern Ireland".

And then sometimes, of course, the world changes around you: the linked stories "Monopoly," "Moral Disorder" and "White Horse," which open in the early 1970's, are as much a portrait of an era as anything else.

On the other hand, we Americans are thoroughly convinced that we have the monopoly on moral values, even though it's often the biggest moral pontificators among us who get caught with their pants down.

But it's wrong to suggest that anyone has a monopoly on moral virtue here.

The experience solidified Megan's increasing conviction that no person or group could claim a monopoly on moral truth.

How is it moral to claim a monopoly on access to heaven, or to threaten waverers with everlasting fire, let alone to condemn fig trees and persuade devils to infest the bodies of pigs?

Kissinger also takes on critics who accuse him of stressing realism above all other considerations, a characterisation he regards as simplistic: "idealists do not have a monopoly on moral values; realists must recognise that ideals are also part of reality".

The Catholic Church in Italy then was very much like the Communist Party in China now: an institution in which few of the rulers took their own ideology seriously but still held a monopoly on moral and legal authority, and also the one place where ambitious, intelligent people could rise, even without family connections (though they helped).