Sentence examples for standards of morality from inspiring English sources

To say this is not to impose contemporary standards of morality on Civil War America.

Widely accepted standards of morality and conduct governed much of our behavior.

But Leibowitz seems to scold the poet for his failure to conform to bourgeois standards of morality.

"It has become a countercultural vocation," a mirror-image of old-fashioned standards of morality, Father Burns said.

Would you continue to behave in accord with the standards of morality if the opposite reputation attached to you?

As censor Cato aimed at preserving the mos majorum ("ancestral custom") and combating all Greek influences, which he believed were undermining older Roman standards of morality.

Hume denies that reason itself sets the standard of morality, or sets forth certain ends as morally to be promoted.

One isolated passage seems to recognize that the moral appeal to Heaven's intention as a standard of morality is effectively empty, as it could be twisted by a criminal to claim that since Heaven (tian, also "nature") has given him a criminal disposition, it is right for him to engage in selfish behavior (EC1).

With young males the double standard of morality still prevails.

This double standard of morality is also seen in premarital life.

The great middle class remains the bastion of traditionalism, and it is here that the double standard of morality is most prominent.