Sentence examples for morally greater from inspiring English sources

The subject of her sentence is "a mighty woman" and the grand climax reached in line six designates her "Mother of Exiles", sweeping up mere size into the morally greater concept of all-generous maternity.

Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast has said Canadians are committing a "morally great evil" if they opt for medically-assisted suicide.

Morally the Great War was no chest-thumping crusade, just the inevitable outcome of itching rivalries between the great powers of the time, like most wars.The human devastation it produced was also extremely localised.

"I was writing it surrounded by the wreckage of the economic boom and the devastation it had wreaked – not just financially, but psychologically and morally – on great swaths of my generation," French says.

The other would instead appeal to the fact that the sort of synthesis in question can come in varying degrees; it might be that some degree of moral individuality is indeed inevitable for the reason mentioned but that the degree which is morally required is greater.

Taken together, these intuitive reactions (along with reactions to two further cases that lie at different points on the spectrum of effort) lead him to suggest that there is a U-shaped relationship between effort and moral worth: the moral worth of morally desirable actions is greatest at high and low levels of effort, and lowest at moderate levels.

They echoed the muddle of the 1931 May committee in supposing that tightened budgets were morally needed in great depressions.Today's clones of Baldwin and MacDonald are not just David Cameron and Gordon Brown.

You come away from Mr. Schenkkan's play with admiration for Johnson's peerless political skills, his ability to bend a recalcitrant Congress to his will by means both subtle and blunt, but with little sense of where he truly stood, morally, on the great issues of the day.

Instead, what's needed is a strong safety net so that increasingly common individual losses/downturns aren't irrevocably catastrophic, and a life spent in the long tail of the power-law curve is still a life morally worthy of great and wealthy nations.

This would suggest that (a) in some circumstances lower courts should be allowed to depart from the decisions of higher courts where their view is that the earlier decision was (in the context of the relevant law) clearly morally undesirable, (b) giving greater freedom to courts to overrule their own decisions on the basis that there was a morally preferable decision (in that legal context).

It is the maximal level of effort that the agent would have been prepared to expend in order to perform a similarly morally desirable action had greater effort been required.