Sentence examples similar to moral toll from inspiring English sources

As the author of 14 wildly inventive novels, Vonnegut might have cited the perils of technology or the corrosive effects of wealth or the moral tolls of war.

In his article, the archbishop argues that as well as the death toll, there has been a heavy moral cost to civilisation, with no gain.

This is about the toll that we're paying for the occupation, the moral price.

In this era of sexual license under the banner of boomer entitlement, when the only obstacle to uninhibited adventure seems to be the risk of disease, there occasionally comes a reminder -- both eloquent and a tad unwelcome -- of the moral and emotional toll taken by promiscuity and divorce.

In fact, he's quite pitiless about the toll of moral ambiguity exacted on the people who live in a border country that's neither land nor sea, neither North nor South, about "the despair and loneliness one could feel on this hollow landscape, the flat, unrelieved and empty world".

His skepticism about American motives, moral revulsion at the toll exacted on Indians and blacks and dislike of predatory conflicts like the Mexican-American War that erupted in 1846 might have qualified as revisionist 30 years ago, but by now are simply orthodoxy.

THE recession has taken its toll on morals as well as profits.

Unpicking these moral quandaries has taken its toll.

Her story reveals the moral implications and the psychological toll of the death penalty — even on the law-enforcement personnel who implement it.

Her story reveals the moral implications and the psychological toll of the death penalty even on the law-enforcement personnel who implement it.

"Reducing this toll is a moral imperative.