Sentence examples for moral tribute from inspiring English sources

But if you believe that congenital poverty is ineradicable, that to be born poor is to be doomed to poverty, then you have to pay moral tribute to the fact of social unfairness.

This affair of the heart feels both ponderous and lightweight, and it detracts not just from the sober business that has brought him to her city but somehow from the moral tribute that "The Water Diviner," old-fashioned as it is, makes such an effort to pay.

The action was part of a planned day of civil disobedience — dubbed "moral Monday" in tribute to the tradition of the civil rights movement — and it marked the last day of the "Ferguson October" weekend of resistance, which saw hundreds of allies and social justice advocates from across the country flock to St . Louisin support of the Ferguson protests.

During an October day of action, which protesters named "moral Monday" as a tribute to the civil rights movement tradition, protests were staged at three St . Louisarea Walmart stores, forcing them to close.

Italy's popular former president, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, added his considerable moral authority to the tributes that poured in, mostly from rightwing politicians.

The movie ends (I'll avoid spoilers) with a deft and decisive tribute to the moral virtue and romantic centrality of artistic ambition.

One of the figures reading will be that of a child, a tribute to the moral standard of the press as a whole.

I find it incredibly romantic, terribly sad, and in some strange moral way, it's a magnificent tribute to her behaviour to her husband: leaving this incredible attraction she has for this man and going back to her kind husband.

The public moral outcry provoked by "The Maiden Tribute" is often seen as one of the key factors behind the implementation of the 1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act (CLA), which raised the age of consent for girls from 13 to 16. Included in the bill was the Labouchère Amendment, named after MP Henry Labouchère, which targeted same-sex relations between men in public and private.

Foreign diplomats were to approach the Chinese emperor as humble servants coming to pay tribute to a cultural and moral superior.

The moral remainder and the remorse it generates signals the tribute that dirty hands pays to moral absolutism.