Sentence examples for moral tribunal from inspiring English sources

Compared to Jack Kerouac's Beat wilderness or Tennessee Williams's Gothic humidor or Arthur Miller's dark moral tribunal, it's a relatively happy place.

You can't aspire to be president of the republic if you don't have any moral authority". The tribunal was created by Congress after a 1988 presidential election widely believed to have been stolen by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, then the dominant party.

It has moral force and the tribunal's decision will be evidence-based.

Yet despite the boosts to the tribunal's moral and actual authority in the last few years, success in bringing Milosevic to justice is far from ensured.

The result of these rulings might be accounted for (i) by exclusive positivism: the tribunal was morally authorized to apply moral rules, notwithstanding that the rules so applied were not rules of law either at the time of the crimes or the time of the prosecution.

In fact, a trial in New York is likely to have exactly the opposite effect, demonstrating that the decision to bypass the military tribunal apparatus lacks any moral force.

In response, the Nuremberg Tribunal developed the first moral guidelines on how to conduct experiments.

French Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevenement said the indictment "does not serve peace" and that the tribunal had "a pseudo-moral vision instead of a political one". Yugoslav officials repeated their customary refusal to recognize the jurisdiction of the tribunal, which it regards as an instrument of NATO war-making.

The church tribunal also found "to a moral certainty" that Mr. Kavanagh, wearing only underwear, had pressed up against Mr. Donohue in bed on a trip to Washington when Mr. Donohue was a high school senior, the complaint said.

For their part, many West African officials already regard the United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone as a moral luxury that has done little to help that crumbling country.

From the murk of the battlefield, the Hague tribunal hints tantalisingly at rare moral clarity, the principle that some crimes are so vile there can be no hiding place for the culprits.