Sentence examples for standards of right from inspiring English sources

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".

Plato considered this impossible and so held that there must be some standards of right or wrong that are independent of the likes and dislikes of the gods.

This reflective stage emerged long after human societies had developed some kind of morality, usually in the form of customary standards of right and wrong conduct.

Bromwich reminds us that he subscribed to universal standards of right and wrong, most evident in his marathon campaign to impeach Warren Hastings as a symbol of the East India Company's wanton plunder of India.

It's not yet clear how or whether "The Sopranos" will come to terms with its own contradictions, though there's a hint of its baseline standards of right and wrong in the way that Tony's mother, Livia, is presented.

The Employee: A Political History historicizes this American exception to international standards of rights and liberties at work, revealing a little known part of the business struggle against the New Deal.

Yet by labeling the United States's fight against terrorism a war, Mr. Heymann said, it has already put pressure on the society to abandon its traditional standards of rights, liberties and basic fairness.

Primary among these is the CRC, which in its 54 Articles and two Optional Protocols, commits the country to internationally defined standards of rights for children.

Might becomes our only standard of right.

On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne.