Sentence examples for paramount moral from inspiring English sources

IN THE 19TH CENTURY, the paramount moral challenge was slavery.

All are equally God's children, so equality of treatment on the twins is the paramount moral imperative.

They form part of what I believe will be the paramount moral challenge we will face in this century: to address the brutality that is the lot of so many women in the developing world.

They then choose a cause and an organization to support, or do a consciousness-raising campaign to respond to Mr. Kristof and Ms. WuDunn's assertion that "the paramount moral challenge" of our age is rectifying the injustices suffered by women around the globe.

These events coincide with the first international Day of the Girl on Thursday, and they remind us that the global struggle for gender equality is the paramount moral struggle of this century, equivalent to the campaigns against slavery in the 19th century and against totalitarianism in the 20th century.

According to New York Times columnist Nickolas Kristof ": "In the 19th century, the paramount moral challenge was slavery.

In Tocqueville's writings on Algeria, the French national interest is paramount and moral considerations are explicitly subordinate to political goals.

And whatever else the western war aims may by then include, the refugees' return will remain paramount for political and for moral reasons.Resettling and rebuilding Kosovo will take a decade or two at least.

Tom Wolfe wrote: "One of the greatest changes brought about by this new breed of journalists has been … that the proof of one's technical mastery as a writer becomes paramount and the demonstration of moral points becomes secondary".

A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General is indeed a poem so angry it sometimes forgets to be satirical: the moral castigation is paramount, and one admires the poet all the more for getting away with the naked simplicity of it.

Either way, what is not in doubt is that the gods' role as moral ideals is paramount in the Epicurean system.