Sentences with phrase «high moral ground»

The publications that stood on high moral ground still made generous use of the word «paradise.»

Let our just cause give pause to those who would ever dream of ever emulating the shameful shenanigans of these sanctimonious hypocrites who fling filings and letters de haut en bas; when it is we who have the higher moral ground and our letters and filing will hail down upon their platforms, exposing them as bitterly barren barons of moral turpitude.

It is believers that claim the high moral ground and have specific prohibitions against abortion, contraception, premarital sex, adultery, lying, etc..

That is why atheism is on a higher moral ground, we understand that WE are responsible for any act, be it kindness or evil, that we perpetrate.

Now we have little to no credibilty to take the high moral ground when, trying to stop these things from happening.

The only party in this who has a high moral ground to stand on are the team and their non-Jewish coach, who knew what is really important in living a moral life.

There is the same type of apocalyptic thinking and the same seizing of the high moral ground.

They sometimes feel themselves at a disadvantage, for the fundamentalists appear to have claimed the high moral ground.

Now, however, the high moral ground of liberty, justice, and openness had been captured by those who interpreted those terms in ways decidedly more radical than the establishment had ever conceived.

And, of course, the commentators set themselves on a high moral ground.

Fighting the drug war may appear to hold the high moral ground, but this is only an illusion.

But different from the wrapping paper drives and the soccer team camp fundraisers, Girl Scouts is celebrating its 100th year of teaching our young ladies skills and grace that actually do lead them into young adulthood armed with some semblance of a higher moral ground and conscience for others and the environment.

Stop acting like you are on a higher moral ground since you hate Wenger.

If there was one thing the Lib Dems had going for them it was the high moral ground, no more.

PRINCETON, NJ — Since the lobbying scandals surrounding Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff emerged last year, the Republican and Democratic caucuses have been jockeying for the higher moral ground and promoting their separate anti-corruption bills.

Secondly, it superficially appears that it has an unassailable claim upon the high moral ground.

Do no harm has its own ethical appeal with which many people will be familiar, through its association with medicine, permitting a challenge for the high moral ground.

And «There are many ways of falling off the high moral ground you've carefully built up for yourself.

In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground.

Actually, Watts uses the «fair play» to claim the higher moral ground: «See, * I * allow dissenting voices!»

Third way is an attempt to co-opt the high moral ground of democracy and capitalism.

Environment groups that have supported the wind industry and taken their thirty pieces of silver, «health professionals» who have no expertise in acoustics and no interest in faraway rural communities, but do have an overblown interest in climate health effects, have jumped on the wind energy bandwagon eager to claim the high moral ground despite the human collateral damage.

Why are those of us who attempt to evaluate such data answered with the scornful dictum from the higher moral ground, such as David McKnight's analogy with the tobacco industry, that the science is settled («The climate change smokescreen», August 2 - 3)?

Those smug know - it - alls that champion wind and solar power persistently claim the high moral ground, but religiously ignore the inevitable victims of their faux eco-zealotry: the poorest and most vulnerable in society, for whom paying for power has become an existential battle.

They seem always to air the musings of people in the early stages of rabies, in order to maintain the high moral ground of presenting all views evenly.

To be contemptuous is to put someone down, and to take a higher plan i.e. taking a higher moral ground.