Sentence examples for moral rather than from inspiring English sources

Within Ghana, as Englund [ 45] describes for Malawi, human rights may be viewed as grounded within a moral rather than legal framework, one which draws on 'traditional' morality as articulated at the shrines, and increasingly on Christian moral codes.

For him, the question is moral rather than economic.

He says this is a moral rather than personal quest.

Both organizations, as a result, faced moral rather than legal tests.

His "new man" would be motivated by moral rather than material incentives.

("Shamelessness is a moral, rather than a legal, concept," Toobin writes, in a typical parenthetical).

Maybe there is a reason that we prefer mullahs to police our morals, rather than the police itself.

I would hope that those converting to the Roman Catholic faith would do so because of the church's teaching on faith and morals rather than on a false perception of an ecclesiastical utopia.

The Vatican was asked why it continued to describe abuse as an offence against morals rather than a crime against children.

TV Squad writer Jay Black praised the main plot, and wrote, "I was delighted that the trip to the Prince Family Paper Company became a test of Michael's morals rather than the usual exercise in his stupidity".

In extreme versions of educational reform, moral anarchy rather than moral freedom seemed to be the operating principle, as if schooling itself ought to be abolished.