Sentence examples for moral tests from inspiring English sources

It is uncertain what sort of constraint is posed by the idea that it should not involve "the very same issues"—perhaps if morality is a necessary condition only there could be moral tests for authority that leave the relevant dependent reasons untouched (Coleman 2001, 126 7).

It is, of course, open to them to adopt a unified view and treat every explicit or implicit legal reference to morality -- in cases, statutes, constitutions, and customs -- as establishing moral tests for the existence of law.

The SPD was alone among German political parties in passing most of the moral tests of the past hundred years.

We watch characters on the stage, Mr. Keenlyside said, hoping against hope that they will pass the same moral tests we know we ourselves would fail.

Facing moral tests is a chance for us to improve our positive self-identity and when we do that successfully we believe that we are good people as a result.

He initiated an annual Christmas lunch in which the assembled hacks would be invited to play games, amounting to moral tests, such as deciding whether a hard-pressed theatre should accept vital sponsorship from tobacco companies.

The moral test continues.

These people and their needs become a moral testing ground.

"Lindsey said this is a moral test for our party.

Yet it cannot be disputed that in many ways Europe then failed the moral test.

Finch's moral test comes at the end of "To Kill a Mockingbird".