Sentence examples for moral precedent from inspiring English sources

Yet the moral precedent we set for ourselves is belied by other figures.

"The moral precedent was set by the Metropolitan Museum" a year ago, Jessup said, when it returned two Cambodian statues based on new evidence that they'd been taken from Koh Ker.

Lying about age online is a bad habit to get into -- the consequences of this can be pretty dire; at the least, it doesn't set a great moral precedent.

It's just putting colorism in another category, letting other morals take precedents in one's life.

New Zealand's decision to recognise climate change as a factor in forced migration marks a moral and ethical precedent that Australia and other countries have yet to emulate.

But they didn't quite drop the point: General Jackson's campaign and the tribunals he convened not as an example of moral right but as legal precedent: the morality or propriety of General Jackson's military operation in Florida is irrelevant.

The authors, led by Kevin Watkins of the United Nations, said anything less would be a moral and political failure without precedent.

If it works, the bank and 45,000 Americans will make out better than they would have otherwise, but it could also set a precedent rife with moral hazard.

But based on any fair-minded understanding of justice, this precedent is a moral outrage.

There is precedent for this moral hysteria, for this desire to use a genuine sexual crisis to attack those considered deviant.

Seeking artistic precedents for this moral detachment, this commitment to neutrality, I come up with four quotations.