Sentence examples for moral opposition from inspiring English sources

With such a tangle of religious and moral opposition, change seems a long way off.

Nor, despite his clearly stated moral opposition to capital punishment, is he advocating a political position.

Something besides moral opposition to the death penalty underlies this European obsession.

Speaking to journalists in Aberdeen, he said: "My life has been one of a moral opposition to nuclear weapons.

Consumers might reject food from modified animals, either because of safety fears or moral opposition to genetic tinkering.

Even in upstate communities, lawmakers say the moral opposition to codifying the rights of homosexuals is easing.

So besides Christianity there's a great deal of "Northernness" in Narnia, and other influences too, most of all "The Faerie Queene," with its pagan and Christian imagery pressed into service in a war between the starkest moral oppositions: Light versus Dark, Truth versus Appearance.

In the 1980s, alternative comedy grew out of a moral and ideological opposition to the vices of a previous generation of comics.

Rousseau accused Voltaire, along with his posh peers, of claiming undue moral superiority; in opposition to their ideals, he posited the general will volonté générale in which alienated individuals reconstitute themselves as a sovereign, firmly rooted, and fiercely patriotic people.

If we don't, we risk falling into the trap of what the late Denis Healey called "the moral righteousness of opposition", which will deliver nothing meaningful for the very people whom the Labour party was founded to represent.

"There are far too many people," he declared at the party conference that followed Labour's third successive defeat in 1959, "who want to luxuriate complacently in moral righteousness in opposition..