Sentence examples for moral warrant from inspiring English sources

They needed some sort of moral warrant.

The work of humanitarians, Rieff shows, has been used as a moral warrant for nonintervention in Bosnia, for intervention in Kosovo and for the war in Afghanistan.

Spouses, partners, parents and siblings have sought involvement, with arguably greater moral warrant.

"No researcher has the moral warrant to flout the globally widespread policy agreement against altering the human germ line," Dr. Marcy Darnovsky, executive director of the Berkeley, Calif.-based Center for Genetins and Society, said in a written statement.

As CSR is gaining momentum in the apparel industry (Woo and Jin 2016), it is imperative to understand the importance consumers place on retail apparel brands CSR practices based on their values and moral norms, warranting further investigation.

Some of the counter-arguments are concerned only with whether the moral case warrants making the practice of voluntary euthanasia legal, whereas others are concerned with trying to undermine the moral case itself.

Proponents of the intervention in Libya often respond to such charges with a wink and a nod — as if we could all agree that the main utility of R2P was always to serve as a moral and political warrant for any humanitarian war they deemed necessary, whatever its legality.

Smoking may deserve friendly criticism, but it does not warrant moral indignation, any more than skiing does, and no more is it anyone else's affair.Those fatal fumesAh, but what if non-smokers are involuntarily exposed to wafting clouds of ghastly gas?

Personality-based moral claims may warrant nothing more than use rights or prohibitions against alteration.

His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant".

In the animal rights view, any one of those goats have at least as much right to life as the last Wrightson sparrow on earth, and the trees, because they are not sentient, warrant no moral consideration whatsoever.