Sentence examples for standard of right from inspiring English sources

Might becomes our only standard of right.

It is the view that there is no shared standard of right and wrong, and what might be right for you could be wrong for me, depending on the day, our mood or the weather.

Nonetheless, utility, he thinks, is the standard of right conduct.

Nothing can be wrong for God, who sets the standard of right and wrong.

In the first place, Hume denies that we lack any real standard of right and wrong or good and evil.

Later utilitarians, such as Sidgwick, have made essentially the same point, insisting that utilitarianism provides a standard of right action, not necessarily a decision procedure (Methods 413).

The paper is described by a senior United Nations official who helped draft it under Mr. Haekkerup's predecessor, Bernard Kouchner, as an important rejoinder in the argument between "those who want security and those who want to keep a Western standard of rights".

Two decades later, Moroccan CSOs use this convention to underpin their call for more migrants' rights in Morocco, drawing on Morocco's commitment to a global standard of rights.

To make explicit the elements of the White Paper and Batho Pele, framing government responsibilities for open communication between health service providers and citizens, the 1997 Patients' Rights Charter (Charter) created a common standard of rights to assure that all people have access to health care.

People are debating this proposed 27th Amendment to the Constitution as if it were beyond simple standards of right & wrong.

Just three years ago, a majority of those we surveyed said that "there are absolute standards of right and wrong that apply to everyone in almost every situation".