Sentence examples for moral queries from inspiring English sources

These two extremes — the extent of complicity and the danger of dissent — make the exhibition's moral queries seem like relics of ordinary life, while the history is of a different order.

When Balzac sent her works in progress, her only replies were moral queries, rather than the stylistic criticism for which he hoped.

A related query (which Moral Thinking leaves as "unfinished business"; 1981: 105, cf. 1997) arises about the range of preferences that prescribing universally commits one to taking on board.

Secretary of Defense William Cohen responded to the very first query -- about our "moral right" to bomb Iraq -- not with an answer but with another question.

This concern presupposes that most of the folk are already pretheoretically inclined toward moral realism an assumption that was queried in the supplementary document Moral Anti-realism vs. Realism: Intuitions.

Our queries used the keywords "moral hazard", "adverse selection", "principal-agent", "agency theory", "agency model", "optimal compensation" and "asymmetric information" in combination with the keyword "tax" in all titles and abstracts of the database content.

"The rules that I drew up required that every member, in his turn, should produce one or more queries on any point of Morals, Politics, or Natural Philosophy, to be discuss'd by the company," Franklin wrote in his autobiography.

What Ravetz's aphorism brings out is that one might want to query such a division of moral labour.

Li turns an intricately plotted mystery into something more profound, one that queries the meaning of crime and punishment in the moral murk of contemporary China.

These 12 years brought no radical shift in the sort of queries I received, unsurprisingly; real social change and its attendant moral uncertainty occur slowly.

As we query how to evaluate existence-inducing acts for their moral permissibility – as well as outcomes or possible futures or worlds, for their moral betterness against still other worlds – we find that some of our most deeply held intuitions regarding the nature and structure of morality are thrown into doubt.