Local forces had triumphed over well-intentioned, morally driven foreigners, and slavery returned to Sudan.
Why not a morally driven politics ― a politics that looks to tolerance, kindness, charity, compassion and community in non-dogmatic and expansive ways, not, as conservatives would have it, to buy off constituencies, but as liberals should have it, to do what is right and good.
Lulla Rosenfeld writes that Henry Irving, the great Shylock before that time, played Shylock as "morally superior to the Christians around him... driven to cruelty only by their more cruel persecutions".
The words "dove" and "hawk" took on entirely different meanings in the 90's, for it was the hardheaded realists, many on the right, who wanted to limit the use of force to the protection of key national interests and the morally driven idealists, many of them liberals, who favored intervention.
A partial list of the roles the women in these pages have played this year would include a slave, a sex therapist, a trainer of killer whales, a randy Texas dowager, a 19th-century factory worker driven to prostitution and the two most compelling and morally complicated characters in the semicompelling, morally simplistic "Dark Knight Rising".
Precisely because Steve is morally driven — he believes that he's securing the only future possible for the town — he begins to question what he's doing.
Self-interested draft avoidance evolved into morally driven draft resistance.
His works are enigmatic but not coy, morally driven but not aggrieved.
"And obviously, at the heart, they loved you know, forget me they loved seeing Matt being physical but very morally driven.
Eager to refute accusations in the British press that he was "Bush's poodle" or enabler, Mr. Blair reminds the reader of his own belief in an interventionist and morally driven foreign policy, articulated years earlier during the Kosovo crisis.
