Sentences with phrase «moral authority»

It's a rather big win for the police and the idea of moral authority in the end.

The bible on the other hand is the self - proclaimed moral authority for all things good and evil that, according to christians, all humans need to live by.

When there are no consequences to actions and no higher moral authority, there is no restraint.

Failure to do this will result in the loss of moral authority from your team.

The lesson for CEOs: they need to boost their own moral authority to thrive in the years ahead.

I can provide no source of absolute moral authority because morality is subjective and relative to a particular situation.

If the answer to either question is «no», then you are blindly taking moral authority without consent, and without knowing the effect.

Many atheists don't want a governing moral authority.

The church community often has been a source of moral authority within our nation.

It has the same moral authority as any mythology.

At least, if they did not have the backing of this supposedly moral authority, people would look at them less favorably.

He violated our trust by speaking in a voice that was not his own, which is why in this and other cases of plagiarism the writer loses intellectual and moral authority broadly.

What teachers have, though, is the ability to tap the authority of expertise and to summon moral authority.

The addition of Saskatchewan and New Brunswick to what Ottawa is calling the Cooperative Capital Markets Regulatory System legitimizes a fledgling regulatory body that was lacking moral authority with only the federal government, Ontario and British Columbia on board.

«This is a very good example of the government exercising some kind of moral authority in balancing contrasting needs,» says Terry Feuerborn, director of the University of California's office of technology transfer.

Lady Warsi said the prime minister had lost moral authority, undermined the national interest and deprived Britain of its historic role as an honest broker in the Middle East by refusing to condemn the aggressive Israeli response to the Hamas rocket attacks as disproportionate.

Would he lose his great moral authority by getting down to the hurly - burly of negotiations?

He can speak with moral authority on the issue: In his state, a gunman killed 20 young children, as well as six adults, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012.

The atheist by saying condecending crap like «atheists don't claim to have ultimate moral authority over other people from a magical man in the sky, while Christians do.»

«Pope Francis brings great moral authority to this matter,» said Mann, who in 2007 was among scientists awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their work on climate change.

First, Aristotle has in mind, under the heading of «witnesses» (martures) not narrators of things seen so much as moral authorities appealed to by the orator.

All the while the Productivity Commission remains silent, no corrections, no letters to the editor, no op eds; and so it lends moral authority to the media nonsense and damages its reputation for credibility and independence.

Your personal attacks on my character not with - standing, I am still interested in how you can justify defending a church that makes claims of absolute moral authority while protecting ped - ophiles.

Yet earlier prophets aided and abetted kings in their wars and later prophets predicted that Yahweh would use war to punish rebellious Israel and to assert moral authority over all nations, the great powers as well as the people of God.

What moral authority does the Catholic Church have after molesting so many generations of children?

The Islamic secondary schools that we visited unquestionably possess moral authority, which, paradoxically, is why they allow students more intellectual freedom.

It is also a very unstable position today because it effectively cedes moral authority to the whims of the entertainment industry and popular media.

And 3) In today's world, where social media feeds moral outrage (think Dr. David Dao being dragged off a United airplane), leaders need moral authority to succeed.

Who has the most moral authority?

If the first task of resistance, then, is to see things as they really are, to stop dreaming and to stand together, the second step is to claim moral authority for one's cause.

My lesson on conscience follows on from this lesson Objectives To identify the meaning of the term Natural Law (Aquinas) To be able to explain how Natural Law is evidence of God's goodness To evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of Natural Law as a source of moral authority Please leave a review if you find it helpful.

Originally established to uphold moral authority and political - religious power, this venue offers a new context for Maclean's work, to question notions of truth, conscience and power in the 21st century.

In this work, Geers effectively questions moral authorities, investigating how concepts of vice and virtue have been inscribed into our cultural code.

This is a question Garvey does not seem to ask nor answer, yet wants to draw moral authority from, as though it had been answered.

He worried about what he saw as US moral authority having been eroded.

Francis is the leader of a billion Catholics and is the single most respected moral authority in the world.

Written by Laurie Goodstein, it worried that the bishops may have been too responsive, that by caving so completely to media pressure they had lost even more of the little moral authority they had left.

There is little real moral authority because no ultimate Authority is known or acknowledged.

The titans of old Madison Avenue may not have been model citizens, but they were smart enough to realize that their businesses — indeed, the whole idea of marketing — depended on cultivating moral authority.

But unlike other Russian oligarchs, Khodorkovsky now enjoys an exceptional moral authority for surviving years in Russia's dismal penal system and waging legal battles in a corrupt and troubled justice system.

«It's going to be very difficult for this president to lead if, in fact, that moral authority remains compromised,» Scott said.

Toward that end the Oversight Board, which has substantial moral authority, needs to provide real leadership by stressing that reform and support are mutually reinforcing.

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?