Sentence examples for stringent moral from inspiring English sources

I figured, given her stringent moral standards, that her great affection for McCain would be dimmed.

As she applies a stringent moral code in her novels, so she does in real life.

The director, Giulio Einaudi, had an imposingly aristocratic manner and a reputation for frivolity, but his staff were handpicked for their stringent moral seriousness.

And yes, the church's exclusive theological claims and stringent moral message don't go over well in a multicultural, sexually liberated society.

Davies said Thurlbeck was full of remorse over his unlawful activities and had changed his path and "embraced a stringent moral code by which to live in the future".

The history of criticism is one of oscillation between periods of relative advance, when the imaginative freedom of great writers prompts critics to extend their former conceptions, and periods when stringent moral and formal prescriptions are laid upon literature.

The concern expressed here, presumably, is this: for all we reasonably believe, citizens who are willing to coerce their compatriots for religious reasons will use their political power to advance their sectarian agenda using the power of the state to persecute heretics, impose orthodoxy, and enact stringent morals laws.

The first has to do with whether groups have to meet the same stringent conditions of moral responsibility that individuals do.

It is revealing that this emphasis on human depravity emerged at the same time as certain areas of Western culture were fostering a particularly stringent set of moral demands.

However, one can adopt rule-consequentialism as one's ethical theory and yet view the immunity of civilians or common citizens and the attendant prohibition of terrorism as very stringent, but not absolute moral rules.

For instance: a do-gooder holds himself to moral commitments so stringent that they conflict with his caring for his family.