Sentence examples for moral stakes from inspiring English sources

His decision to expand the war is the most morally consequential one of his presidency so far, yet as the moral stakes rose, Obama's emotional temperature cooled to just above freezing.

2 The moral stakes are very clear.

The most difficult scenes occur early and set the grim mood and moral stakes.

The difference is that the moral stakes in "Chicago" were nonexistent.

In this case, though, the technology is significantly more complex and the moral stakes are higher.

In Haroun's film, when civil war arises the moral stakes suddenly ramp up, becoming mortally high.

"But this company was made by my family, and I have an important moral stake in it," Mr. Azcarraga said.

Forty years ago, when boxing was not the sideshow it is now, Presidents took an interest in matches of any moment, especially when there was a moral stake to be contrived.

Brutus and Wanda each lay claim to the apartment, he because he holds the lease, she because her grandfather used to live there, giving her, she is convinced, a historical and moral stake.

It's not only that having a good man on Walt's tail has given the audience a moral stake in events, a sense of personal interest that's increasingly slipped away in the grim, "isn't everybody just awful" later seasons of a show like "Mad Men".

Of course, there would be no talk of 'weight of moral stake' on the basis of magnitude of total happiness, if the CSR involvement of any of the mining companies were based on libertarianism.