Sentence examples for morally binding from inspiring English sources

The question remains, on whom was it morally binding?

Dr. Kissinger at a recent press conference asserted that, though this commitment was not legally binding, it was morally binding.

The concepts of an authoritative lawmaker and of morally binding laws made by that person are correlates.

There are morally binding forces which must obtain, and when that trust breaks down, as it is doing at the moment, when investors see their savings stolen by cheats, then the system itself is revealed as less certain of its authority, less worthy of support.

God could command human beings to hate him and such a precept must be considered as morally binding.

He was a main conduit into Scotland of the European natural law tradition, a tradition of scientific investigation of human nature with a view to constructing an account of the principles that are morally binding on us.

If Ginger, in this case, was not the author of the recipe — suppose she took it from someone else — it is not at all clear that the resulting contract would be morally or legally binding.

However, in 2013 the international community's resistance to U.S. plans to launch missile strikes against Syria in retaliation for that country's alledged use of internationally prohibited chemical weapons against its own population added significant doubt to the already controversial assertion that the R2P principle, however warranted morally, is a legally binding principle.

In "The Honor Code," we accompany Detective Appiah as he tries to figure out who killed three morally repugnant practices: dueling among British gentlemen, foot-binding among the Chinese elite and slavery in the British Empire.

It might be possible to argue that the morally-relevant norms of a group are not binding on those outside the group, but we have not seen such an argument.

The trick, of course, is finding a way to relax the strict legal rule to avoid the morally repugnant result, without abandoning altogether the principle that sovereign-debt contracts are intended to be legally binding undertakings".