Sentences with phrase «clear moral purpose»

Gove, the former education secretary, praised the «clear moral purpose» in Justine Greening's statement, but in terms of selection only offered his support to the idea of selecting by ability at 16.
In a war that has no clear moral purpose, where it is difficult to distinguish friend from foe or soldier from civilian and where it is forbidden by one's superiors either to win or to lose — such a war impels even fairly decent people to commit atrocities.

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Thus it is clear that there is an inescapable moral aspect in all preaching, an aspect whose purpose is to awaken conscience and to move the hearers to do what Kierkegaard once styled «the works of love.»
They had a sense of moral purpose but solutions to thorny policy areas were not as clear as they appeared to be during intoxicating delivery.
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