Sentence examples for of moral consensus from inspiring English sources

Privacy is a luxury of moral consensus.

If I could be sure to be a woman safe on the British home front, I would live among those who survived both the First and Second World Wars, because that generation had two post-war chances to construct brave new international structures, based on brief windows of moral consensus and political will in the West.

"Universities don't want to be associated with views which aren't part of the moral consensus," Dennis Hayes, professor of education at the University of Derby and founder of Academics for Academic Freedom, says.

Progressives want diversity, but they thereby undermine part of the moral consensus on which a large welfare state rests".

The striking thing about the revelation that Milly Dowler's phone had been hacked was that it was a rare moment of clear moral consensus in public life – we'd forgotten such things were possible.

Progressives want diversity but they thereby undermine part of the moral consensus on which a large welfare state rests.

Progressives want diversity but they thereby undermine part of the moral consensus on which a large welfare state rests.  .

But the persistence of problems linked to prostitution doesn't justify arbitrarily penalizing sex workers who are just trying to survive, nor does it enforce any kind of perceived moral consensus in society.

Religions for Peace invites the world's senior-most religious leaders for the purpose of forging a deep moral consensus on contemporary challenges, electing a new World Council and advancing interreligious action.

Somehow, then, the pundits have come to expect the informed voter to admire the politician who rigidly maintains a position long after it becomes untenable, and despise one whose position evolves in response to changed circumstances or a change in the moral consensus of the voting public.

Though politicians like to pretend they embody a moral consensus, there is none on the morality of drug use.