Sentence examples for prevailing moral from inspiring English sources

As Mr Waldman rightly suggests, prevailing moral sentiments are less likely to rule out efficient policy when policymakers acknowledge and address the legitimate moral concerns of the public.

What about all those films that operated under a censorship code or were bound by prevailing moral standards to be less explicit?

Extant evidence is that life within Chan monastic communities was conducted in adherence with the disciplining precepts of Buddhist ordination, and that interactions with the lay community were for the most part consistent with prevailing moral and social norms.

Some argue on religious or philosophical grounds that it is blameworthy to act against conscience, even if the judgement of conscience is likely to be erroneous (say because it is inadequately informed about the facts, or prevailing moral (humanist or religious), professional ethical, legal and human rights norms).

Parents who do not correct their children's inappropriate or rule-breaking behavior will raise children who are unaware of the prevailing moral standards and values.

Moral fictions are intended to convert an ethically challenging life-terminating act, whether inducing deep coma with medication and/or discontinuing constitutive VS or CS at the request of a patient or surrogate, into an act that appears congruent with the prevailing moral norm; that is physicians must not kill or assist in killing patients.

Legal systems that grew out of a desire to encode the prevailing morals of the time, along with the need to regulate nascent societies, recognised a utilitarian aim in preventing homicide: for a society to develop, people had to be able to get on with life without fear of being harmed.

In the past 30 years they have managed to place themselves with astonishingly consistent clumsiness, athwart of the prevailing currents of moral sympathy.

Indeed, Scalia's meditation on the Court's lack of religious diversity was part of a larger argument that the Court's decision on same-sex marriage did not reflect prevailing religious and moral values.

On the other hand, those who dared criticize the prevailing social and moral order were thrown into prison; such was the fate of renowned legist Ibn Taymiyyah (1263 1328), who, having emigrated from Mesopotamia to escape the Mongols, was incarcerated in Cairo by the Mamlūks for spreading doctrines that their religious functionaries considered heresy.

And there was everything I'd liked in the work of Higgins or Leonard or Pelecanos: the inventive dialogue, the characters etched in shades of grey, the prevailing mood of moral ambiguity and profound cynicism as to the motives and efficacy of the forces of law and order.