Sentences with phrase «as moral»

Along with the likes of Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo and Walter Sisulu, he was part of a group untainted by corruption, acting as a moral compass for the nation.

As Mr Brown considers his future Cabinet, Mr Hain called on potential ministers to promote liberty and view equality as a moral issue.

Safe and humane prisons are viewed as a moral hazard.

When the populace can not be labeled as moral, honorable, respectable or knowledgeable then why would anyone expect the elected politicians and the end result to be any better?

Depressing, and another reminder of the limits of the internet to make immediate change happen in the real world, particularly in a state like Iran that's becoming increasingly despotic as its moral legitimacy fades.

As long as this remnant of an empire prevails the UK will be seen as the moral leader of the pack.

Now, without the Liberal Democrats acting as the moral compass of government, they have been reintroduced.

What's more, fascism regards violence as a moral imperative; which is distinct from other ideologies which accept the use of violence as a means to an end, but do not promote violence in itself as morally good.

I don't know why things happened the way they did, why my baby came early, why she developed severe oral aversions that still plague us today, why she couldn't suckle or why no one picked up all the issues that contributed, but I do know that exclusively pumping has made me stronger, that it has ignited a flame and inspired me to help, support, and encourage moms to get the right help, to help them through the difficult stages, and be there as moral support through the highs and lows.

As a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of the Child that came into force in 1990, the UK has had a legal, as well as moral, obligation to protect breastfeeding and fully implement the International Code and Resolutions.

And now when I talk to other pregnant mamas, I have to remember that everyone's story is going to be different and it does not need to be approached as a moral issue.

«All the seemingly divisive decisions — pain meds in labor / newborn sleep arrangements / feeding — are often phrased as moral imperatives from both sides.

That is a legal as well as a moral right.

When it comes to drugs at least, dads aren't cutting it as moral guardians even when they're present.

In a powerful new talk available at Ted.com, author Jessica Shortall makes the case for paid family leave — not only as a moral issue but as an economic one.

What's perhaps most disturbing about the survey is that we still seem to view divorce as a moral failing, that if you just tried harder you'd be able to do it!

For 36 years Paterno has been Levine's ideal as a moral leader.

Obviously there is no such thing as a moral victory when you are ousted from the Playoffs, but I think these guys gained vital experience that they will use to their benefit in 2013.

«We see the ongoing transition to a sustainable food and agricultural sector not only as a moral imperative, but also as an incredible business opportunity,» said Draijer.

From the beginning, keynote speakers emphasised food loss and waste as a moral problem.

Notwithstanding the early Republic's commitment to religious pluralism, Evangelicals at the time were haunted by what they perceived as the moral and theological dangers of their competitors.

If you continue to utilize the logic of a book written eons ago as your moral barometer, you better be willing to accept the whole thing, not just parts of it you prefer.

Under the prophetic influence religion took on a new character which was reflected both in the organized cult and in the formulation of civil as well as moral and cultic laws.

Particularly Bucer, who had a high sense of the church as a moral community, fired one memorandum after another at the city council, demanding for the church the full institution of church discipline.

Doesn't it weaken the Bible's authority as moral a guide, that it can be used successfully in such divergent ways?

«The truth of the matter can be put,» says Leuba, «in this way: God is not known, he is not understood; he is used — sometimes as meat - purveyor, sometimes as moral support, sometimes as friend, sometimes as an object of love.

Post ACA the decision is no longer the companies and they object to being told that if they want to continue to provide insurance as a moral obligation that they must provide a new component they object to.

Only 1 per cent view him as a «political revolutionary,» and the turn - of - the - century liberalism that saw him as moral teacher, prophet or itinerant preacher hardly shows up on the screen.

To the extent that X regards his trouble as a matter of weak willpower, he thinks of himself as a moral jellyfish.

He was outspoken in his denouncement of slavery as a moral wrong and may be considered a pioneer in the area of civil disobedience.

There is no such thing as a moral absolute, its all just society telling people what is right or wrong.

do you think that what we see as moral or immoral is the same as our great grandparents views?

But, without apparent conscious distinction, the HC is also moral - ethical, as the moral and the ethical are conceived under the primary fact of existence — «I am Yahweh.»

They have a problem with what the conservatives have laid out as the moral litmus test about who is worthy and who is not.»

They could not imagine themselves doing such a thing, so it made Jesus less credible as a moral guide by seeming to put him out of reach.

Trump's many sins against political correctness make him a hero in the eyes of those tired of being beaten up by elites who portray them as moral cretins not properly catechized in the latest standards of «inclusion.»

Interpreted ontologically as a metaphysical treatise and juridically as a moral manual the bible is may transmit knowledge about the God of Nature; but it will not be a means of Grace by which we come to trust in the Loving - Mercy of God the Father of Jesus to stand before God in the psycho - spiritual nakedness necessary for a deeply intimate relationship.

According to your own Magisterium, you are to submit to the RCC in all matters of doctrine as well as moral teachings.

This would necessarily affirm as moral what is in fact morally wrong.

Rather it is to say that it is a mistake to think, as Muray appears to think, that it is possible to identify them as moral errors from some abstract point of view such as «fundamental reality itself» (91), or «whatever contributes to the enhancement of relationality and creativity» (92) of this reality or even such a pseudo-concretization as «the challenges of today» (92).

(This observation is not meant as a moral indictment.

Reading them as moral commandments that affect our relationship to God does violence to Paul's main point about the universality of the Atonement.

Italian history has produced a continuous series, century after century, of men larger than life, extraordinary as intellectuals but above all as moral virtuosi.

As a moral guidebook, the bible is not the greatest text in the world.

It is too bad that so much of the energy of one of the greatest engines of conscientization the world has ever known — the Catholic Church — should be spent on regulating women's anatomy instead of promoting their autonomy and empowerment as moral persons.

Christianity was not created as a moral standard for humanity.

Jonah is portrayed as the moral equivalent of a cliché, the misanthrope in a sandwich board that says «The End Is Near.»

And he stressed the need for reforms as a moral issue.

If you do not accept slavery as moral act then your morals are from something other then your Bible.

As moral agents we must discern and undo the evil that has been done.