Sentence examples for moral verdict from inspiring English sources

Beasts deliver a moral verdict, and lions with a hotline to the Almighty may judge men.

As the sports world awaits N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell's latest ride in on his horse to deliver the league's moral verdict on Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, the people of Pittsburgh have joined in a chorus of: How 'bout those Penguins!

This otherwise innocent letter to stock-market investors turns on its head the moral verdict of the Internet boom: in the world according to Google, investors aren't victims but perps.

Further, as a psychologist, Haidt offers no a priori arguments against the possibility of reason yielding moral verdicts.

Recent studies have suggested that the instinctive moral verdicts we make based on facial appearances might not be completely fallacious and moronic.

The committee called the system for dealing with blue-ticket veterans "a squeeze play between the war department and the veterans' administration" and took the agency to task for assuming "the right to separate the sheep from the goats" and "passing moral verdicts on the history of any soldier".

As Claire Bishop contended in her 2004 essay "Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics," moral and political verdicts have replaced art criticism and are often too summarily employed to substitute for a lacking in formal and aesthetic quality.

Thus, if envy is interpreted as making a claim about impersonal value, it will be difficult to prevent moral considerations from guiding verdicts about its fittingness.[14] While this does not completely collapse the distinction between envy and resentment, it renders it considerably murkier.

The judge promised "a moral jury that renders a verdict that has moral integrity," the appeals court pointed out.

What Williams takes to be the correct verdict on modern moral theory is therefore rather like Nietzsche's on George Eliot:[9] the idea that morality can and will go on just as before in the absence of religious belief is simply an illusion that reflects a lack of "historical sense".

Mr Shavell argues that the single-digit rule could stop juries returning "completely irresponsible verdicts" based on moral intuitions about corporate wealth and sin.Not everybody believes that the Supreme Court has closed the door on large verdicts, irresponsible or otherwise.