Sentence examples for moral versus from inspiring English sources

As Barber puts it, "This is a moral versus immoral battle". He finished a 16-city tour in North Carolina shortly before the Moral March, and there were more than a few Republicans and Republican groups who were willing to join him.

Factors affecting how audiences interpret misalignments include how motivated they are to condemn the manager, whether a manager has suffered for past misdeeds, the blatancy of the inconsistency (with ambiguous inconsistencies judged less harshly) and the moral versus pragmatic frame of the manager's words and deeds.

Novelists envisioned alternative forms of social agency by employing contemporary discourses from Chartism's focus on suffrage as well as the means through which it sought to obtain it, such as moral versus physical force, land reform, and the cooperative movement.

Note that this "moral" versus "non-moral" distinction correlated only weakly with the "principle-focused" versus "consequentialist" distinction.

To what degree are they seeking moral support versus planning support?

2. In an October article from The New Yorker on micro-enterprise, Muhammad Yunus and burgeoning social entreprenuers, the author looks at the difference between those who do good because they feel a sense of moral duty versus those who do good to make a profit.

I asked Steve Rosenthal, the president of the Organizing Group and a former political director of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., and John Lawrence, who spent 38 years as a top aide on Capitol Hill, most recently as chief of staff to Nancy Pelosi, about how they deal with question of moral principle versus political pressure when evaluating a controversial vote.

For example, she questioned the clarity of the categories (moral energy versus physical force) that Tolstoy created in his doctrine of non-resistance (TYH 195).

Whether participants read a set of moral rationalization versus moral decoupling arguments and chose the one that best described their own views, or whether the authors assessed the content of participants' responses, as expressed in their own words, these differences were striking and consistent.

Bonnie Lander, for example, argues that the denizens of Hautdesert are "intelligently immoral", choosing to follow certain codes and rejecting others, a position which creates a "distinction … of moral insight versus moral faith".

Yet the inconsistency between war as a moral imperative versus political policy runs way wider and deeper than the Libya conflict.