Sentence examples for scruples against from inspiring English sources

We were stumbling over scruples against a foe with no scruples.

Many A & M accounts were small by Wall Street standards, but were crucial in a community whose citizens may have religious scruples against drawing Social Security benefits.

He declined a de-luxe cabin on a trip to America because of his scruples against luxury, but accepted when informed that he was hurting the feelings of the steamship line.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell of Connecticut, a Republican, said the state law represented "an earnest compromise" between the rights of rape victims and the interests of health care practitioners who had moral or religious scruples against emergency contraception.

"Case Stirs Fight on Jews, Juries and Execution" (front page, March 16), about allegations that prosecutors in Alameda County, Calif., routinely excluded Jews from capital juries, itself excludes a larger point -- that jurors with scruples against the death penalty are systematically ruled out of cases in which it might be imposed.

As Quine once said, 'Such scruples against circularity have little points once we have stopped dreaming of deducing sciences from observation.

At the same time, he had developed a "religious scruple" against dueling after his eldest son, Philip, died on the "field of honor" in November 1801.

My weak, deluded scruples could avail nothing against the iron word of the prophet.

If they are likely to be unscrupulous, this militates against requiring scruples of them.

Chinese government officials have no scruples about playing off foreigners against each other.

The states had few scruples in asking for Christian support against rival Muslim kings or in turning to the North African kingdoms for aid against Christian princes.