Sentence examples for moral offence from inspiring English sources

I feel it is a moral offence," its spokesperson told reporters.

It was as if merely to exhibit them constituted some kind of moral offence.

What he did wasn't illegal, and Mr Weiner's clumsy appeals are a lesser moral offence than many of those known to have been committed by sitting members of Congress.

It was that moral offence, the act of passing off someone else's work as your own, that caused a familiar tsunami of offence to roar across social media channels.

"One thing that occurs to me is the behavior of the tobacco companies denying the connection between smoking and lung cancer for the sake of profits, but this is an order of magnitude greater moral offence, in my opinion, because what is at stake is the fate of the planet, humanity, and the future of civilisation, not to be melodramatic".

Greenpeace has apologised for any "moral offence" it has caused, after a publicity stunt on the ancient Nazca lines in Peru.

But they also dole out punishments for "moral offences".

Thousands of women have been arrested or cautioned for breaching Islamic dress codes in a zealous crackdown on moral offences unknown in Khatami's time.

At first neither of them will be asked to punish errant Muslims, as moral offences are reserved for higher courts.Outside Kuala Lumpur's sharia court, opinions mostly divide along gender lines.

There are many legal and moral offences in this latter category.

Penal justice (sometimes referred to as retributive justice), for example, concerns the punishment of offenders for their legal and/or moral offences, and is to be distinguished from distributive justice.