Sentence examples for moral muscle from inspiring English sources

Only legislation that combines moral muscle with legal authority will help make the would-be perpetrators think twice.

The requirement of moral muscle is a hand-me-down from another archetype, the Frontier Wife, who leaves her civilized past behind to forge a home in the wilderness.

Homeownership has been touted as civic responsibility, "moral muscle" and a bulwark against communism.

This kind of role playing creates "moral muscle memory" that makes us better at reaching ethical decisions, Gentile suggests.

My brother James once brilliantly reframed this as "Virtue is knowing what you really want," and then building the intellectual and moral muscle to go after it.

James, feeling powerless, gave himself power by believing he had it, and then exercised that power more and more, building up his moral muscles.

Enter a redeemer (Ajay Devgn), equipped with mother love, morals and muscles.

Just as the UAW poured its moral and political muscle into battling on behalf of South African workers, now the South African unions are offering to use their moral authority and political power to help the workers who seek to join the UAW.

Poland's moral weight matches German muscle in such diplomacy, says Eugeniusz Smolar, a Polish foreign-policy analyst.

Apparently, inequality will go on getting worse no matter what anyone says, wearing us all down until our indignation is reduced to the moral equivalent of a muscle tic.

More spiritual force, more moral strength, more ideological muscle, more revolutionary strength," he said, as his aides applauded.