Sentence examples for moral premise from inspiring English sources

Do you operate on any sort of moral premise?" It brought the house down.

I dislike the aesthetic or moral premise of The Act of Killing.

On the face of it, a simple moral premise: one rescued and flourishing child is better than two dead.

His earlier films "Zentropa" (which trafficked in the kind of arty illusionism he would later renounce) and "Breaking the Waves" have been widely and extravagantly praised, and each one depends on a provocative moral premise.

Boycotts need to have a very clear outcome and a moral premise to be effective, argues comedian and activist Mark Thomas, who has made two television programmes about Nestlé's trading practices.

This is the moral premise that superiority justifies subordination.

What is needed, he said, is the ability "to think carefully from our moral premises to our moral conclusions and have a consistency about that".

Though the Hunger Plan proved impossible, it provided the moral premises for the Wehrmacht's treatment of civilians and prisoners of war after the invasion of June 1941.

If we simply assume methodological nationalism, the opposite of methodological Lennonism, it seems that we will have smuggled in a set of highly contestable moral premises about the legitimacy and priority of national interests.

Michael Ahearn is an English teacher -- as Stone has been -- and expresses his personal disdain for literary vitalism, for programs of heroic excess and transgression as aesthetic or moral premises for serious literature.

But from where, then, can we get the moral premises needed?