The phrase "moral strictures" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to certain rules or standards about what is morally right or wrong, and is usually found in contexts discussing ethics or morality. For example: "The moral strictures of the group prevented members from participating in any activities that were deemed unethical by the leadership."
Ms. Byatt doesn't lament today's lack of moral strictures.
The Internet, with its promise of simultaneous intimacy and distance, offers a new way to flout moral strictures.
Most Americans are not ready to jettison traditional moral strictures even as many live non-traditional lives.
Family still closes in, moral strictures still have their say, and divorce is the most far-reaching catastrophe of all.
Carter isn't as rigid as he sometimes makes himself sound, and he is aware that some of his moral strictures are potentially humorous.
Because United Artists did not feel constrained by the moral strictures of the Production Code, it was able to move quickly as social mores changed in the 1960s.
The moral stricture against deliberately doing harm would supersede the rules of the game.
A stable social order is an artificial accomplishment, the result of an accumulation of habits, hectoring, moral stricture and physical coercion.
Ivan maintains that without belief in the possibility of an afterlife, one in which we will be judged for our sins, there can no longer be any moral stricture limiting our Earthly behaviour - we may fornicate, intoxicate and even murder as much as we want.
Yet one file, concerning Mr. Coetzee's "In the Heart of the Country" (1977), seemed to find a way of bypassing those pseudo-moral strictures, noting that "although sex across the color line is described," the book "will be read and enjoyed only by intellectuals".
Yet, one file, labeled DP1E, P77/7/103, concerning "In the Heart of the Country" (1977), seemed to find a way of bypassing those pseudo-moral strictures, noting that "although sex across the color line is described," the book "will be read and enjoyed only by intellectuals".
