Sentences with phrase «because of his high moral character»

Silver, who faces 100 years behind bars during his May 3 sentencing, hoped to argue that he should get a lighter sentence because of his high moral character.

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My own father, a person of the highest moral character and integrity was accused of being shady by my abuser because he tried to find us alternative housing when my abuser (although court ordered to pay the mortgage) willfully and vindictively drove it into foreclosure and the kids and I homeless, while he went off and bought he and his spiritual wife a new home.

At Vanderbilt the constituencies were reassured that the university was persisting in its primal Christian commitment because of high standards in academics, or a liberal or broad or thorough curriculum, or freedom from dogmatism, or the cultivation of moral character, or social conscience regarding racial integration or the relief of poverty, or decorum and discipline in fraternities and at football games.

Rush Limbaugh is devoid of morals and character because he sold out on those values to the highest bidder.

In part, perhaps, because the very term «character education» evokes such an all - American image of wholesomeness and high moral purpose, this is one bandwagon that educators are almost sure to be climbing aboard in growing numbers.

Some of us like our heroes and heroines to be admirable holding to high moral standards or exemplary behavior, others look for characters they can identify with because of shared tastes or world views, and others want their characters to be compelling and capable of making the reader care what happens to them, often to the point of staying up way past bedtime to read just one more chapter.