Sentence examples for no moral standing from inspiring English sources

First of all, nonexistent people have no moral standing.

It does not follow that those countries had no moral standing to oppose the Nazis.

"The US has no moral standing on these issues and neither does Bolsonaro and Brazil," said Salas, a signatory of an open letter attacking what it branded a US attempt to topple Maduro.

("Have you no sense of decency, sir?") A more potent symbol of legal probity could hardly have been found in 1959, but while Welch gives an immensely appealing performance (there are moments when he wipes the floor with George C. Scott, no easy task), his character is given no special purchase on the truth, no moral standing beyond his appointed office.

Kolbert's piece also cites one other potential argument against what you might call the "pay it forward" case for parenting: Namely, the idea that there's no one to pay it to — that "nonexistent people have no moral standing," and thus it's silly to claim that we have any obligation to put their potential access to the grace of life ahead of our everyday interests and desires.

But they cannot forgive for the primary victim or for other victims of the crime because they have no moral standing or authority to do so.

Footballers are not role models, by and large; they have no peculiar moral standing.

Even if it were true that "Israel has no recognized moral standing in the world" (Tom Paine), that would not be a reason for engaging in an academic boycott against it, and the anointing of Israel as the beacon of freedom would not be a reason for exempting it from a boycott, should one be academically justified (as I think it could not be).

And I understand that these people see a lot of really ugly shit and sometimes, no matter their moral standing it must be hard to not stereotype.

It's the also the sign of a corrupt political/intellectual culture that being wrong in highly consequential ways appears to have no bearing on your implicit moral standing to propound in weighty terms on the crucial issues of the day.

No figure could garner Mandela's moral standing by simply pantomiming forgiveness out of necessity.