Sentence examples for the moral lectures from inspiring English sources

So skip the moral lectures, please.

You Next!" Paisley's successor as DUP leader and first minister has wisely chosen to tune down the bible bashing and the moral lecturing.

This was an organisation that through its newspapers gave moral lectures to the public that acted immorally and criminally and felt itself above the law".

It's all produced quite a spectacle, to the extent that Putin -- I'm told miming what he sees as the irritating American practice of delivering moral lectures to other countries -- produced a chutzpah-filled New York Times op-ed taking Obama to task on "American exceptionalism" in particular and American geopolitical strategy in general.

And while I perfectly well understand their touching displays of loyalty to their sponsor, I'm not sure they're really in a position to deliver moral lectures," he wrote in The Sunday Times.

Lord Hailsham stoutly defended that effort and denounced American opposition to the invasion, saying he "did not wish to hear any moral lectures from those whose moral weakness and incapacity to see the facts was the precipitating factor" in the crisis.

Lofty, cost-free moral lectures count for less and less.

Second, I'm not taking moral lectures from people who are pretty dismal failures themselves.

Lofty, cost-free moral lectures count for less and less".This is particularly true of press freedom in Africa.

She said Britain had "concerns on certain human rights areas" but added that Russia was not receptive to "moral lectures".

It can be politically difficult for small, poor countries to heed moral lectures from America; it can be far more palatable to pay attention to guidance from other small, poor nations facing similar challenges.