Sentence examples for moral onus from inspiring English sources

The intent was to shift the moral onus from the perpetrator to the victim.

It's a peculiar moment of cinematic accusation that thrusts upon the viewer the moral onus of attention and inattention, of a gaze imbued with prejudices stoked both by sentiment and patriotic identification.

Tony Blair has a "moral onus" to give evidence to the judicial inquiry investigating the secret letters giving IRA "on the runs" assurances they would not face prosecution, Northern Ireland's justice minister demanded tonight.

I think there is more of a moral onus on me to try and put people in the team who are behaving in a manner that befits playing for the national side.

Linking agreement and peace would put all parties under a moral onus to find not the best compromise between their different positions, but an agreement that could include Sinn Féin".

Actions permitted by unjust laws can be evil, and there may be a moral onus on descendants who have benefited from their parents' immorality to redress the balance even where no law was broken.

And now that it has pulled its troops out, it has regained the moral high ground.The onus is now on the Congolese government to fulfil its side of the bargain.

Perhaps the most notable feature of "Hiroshima" is Hersey's precise and unadorned style, which simply records the facts and places the moral and interpretive onus on the reader.

Despite the melodramatic intensity of the plot, Preminger works with coolly balanced two-shots and inert, opaque closeups that put the onus of moral choice on his characters without revealing their motives.

The result is a game in which directors both claim to be telling the truth and yet avoid judgment; the onus of moral judgments is displaced from directors to viewers, even as, in the selection of facts to show, the directors have stacked the decks.

First, he thinks that the believer in moral facts bears a special burden: Given the apparent possibility that any phenomenon may be satisfactorily explained without recourse to an appeal to moral facts, the onus is on the believer in such facts to clarify persuasively how they fit into the causal world order.