Sentence examples for moral offender from inspiring English sources

In its own small or maybe not so small way, the Missyplicity Project is the cloning frontier's worst moral offender.

The moral offender sits opposite me in blissful ignorance and begins loudly and smugly deconstructing his own performance to a friend, while I suppress an evil and knowing cackle.

They are terrorised by the Mutaween or religious police who patrol public places on the lookout for "moral offenders".

Censors also assessed property for taxation and contracts, penalized moral offenders by removing their public rights, such as voting and tribe membership, and presided at the lustrum ceremonies of purification at the close of each census.

And even when one of Gass's moral offenders gets what's coming to him, as in the finale of the story "Emma Enters a Sentence of Elizabeth Bishop's" (which Gass says has "a feminist strain"), the vengeance doesn't wholly vitiate the foregoing ugliness, either.

Few will argue against this principle, but it still leaves us with a spectrum of alternatives among which to choose, marked at one end by a positivistic legalism (offenders deserve whatever the penal code provides as their punishment) and at the other end by an inchoate moralism (offenders deserve whatever accords with their moral culpability and the harm they have caused).

Police in organisations in which offenders are routinely tortured do not, unsurprisingly, tend to develop respect for the moral rights of offenders, suspects, or even witnesses.

If scandals were judged in moral terms, the offenders might at least apologise.

People who are feeling disgust become harsher in their judgments of moral offenses and offenders.

The head of the 18,000-acre prison for nearly two decades, Mr Cain firmly believes in the moral rehabilitation of offenders, and in the potential for redemption through Christian faith.

Jane Austen puns once, in "Mansfield Park," and it serves to impeach the moral character of the offender.