Sentence examples for morally able to from inspiring English sources

If the return directive becomes law, we will not be morally able to deepen negotiations with the EU, and we reserve the right to legislate so European citizens have the same obligations for visas that Europe imposes on the Bolivians, according to the diplomatic principle of reciprocity.

Since 2012's Health and Social Care Act scrapped the government's duty to secure a comprehensive health service, Hunt is now legally – if not morally – able to wash his hands of the entire mess – a situation that must be reversed urgently, and democratic accountability restored.

The toxic money in our politics that is controlling our government must move to the forefront of the national conversation, and none of the candidates for president are equipped and morally able to ride this horse except Bernie, the lone candidate with no Super PAC or special interest money propelling his campaign.

Do you behave morally so that you have the reputation of behaving morally, or do you behave morally because morality, like being able to see, is something that's valuable in itself to you, and valuable to you because of the consequences that it produces?

We know that the council felt morally and intellectually able to break bread with the paedophiles, but perusal of the archive throws up a fascinating contrast: the group – on point of principle – would have nothing to do with Playboy magazine, at least in public.

"I've been unemployed it's not a decision I can face morally without being able to raise it properly.

Both writers bring home to us the horror of the world from which the Essenes have withdrawn but which, morally, they have been able to stand up to.

I'm not going to be able to morally judge them back and say, 'Well, let me look at your life.' And b) is that healthy?

Having a challenging performance goal may have been enough incentive for participants to say they would cheat in the scenario task, while only those who were able to morally justify their behavior may have actually been willing to lie on the anagram task.

In Part I of the "Conclusion", Hume complains that Hobbes' self-love theory is unable to explain two important features of our moral sentiments: we tend to approve of the same sorts of character traits and we are able to morally evaluate anyone, at any time or place.

I feel morally responsible for not being able to have prevented 10 murders and two bomb attacks".