Sentences with phrase «moral backbone»

In your ignorance and lack of moral backbone you will destroy a cornerstone of our democratic freedom.

I'm very impressed with this manifesto, it's always good to know that a business is being operated with a strong moral backbone to guide its future.

It is not because they have some sense of moral backbone.

While the country reels in horror at the lack of moral backbone from the power elite at PSU — putting their «image» above the safety of young boys — the pastor of this church allows himself to be pushed into an act of moral (and Christian) cowardice by the sinners in his midst.

Without a good moral backbone America is doomed.

This is a sensationalist fantasy, exploiting stereotypes while masquerading as a film with a serious social and moral backbone underneath.

In those early seasons, the strength of the show was in the warm the family relationships with John Schneider and Annette O'Toole as his rock steady, salt of the Earth adoptive parents, who balance moral backbone with just a touch of modern sexiness, and the tension with his Kryptonian father Jor - El (voice of Terence Stamp).

There are a lot of students and alumni who aren't satisfied by the trustee response, and we will keep pushing Reed to display a fiduciary and moral backbone by divesting from the fossil - fuel industry that is degrading, if not destroying, our future and our children's futures.

Robards plays one of Peckinpah's most nuanced characters and de Havilland is a quiet force of moral backbone.

For society to flourish we must have a moral backbone.

The pastor should have the the moral backbone to have told the church members he would marry the couple or replace him.

Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, also asked if asked if the prime minister would have «have the moral backbone to tell [Trump] he is wrong on climate change» when she visits him in Washington.

«Serious questions exist about the moral backbone of those running the financial service sector, while they find it acceptable to ignore the misery working people face with our economy in turmoil.

With its moral backbone providing the foundation for interconnecting stories, one might consider CONVERSATIONS another attempt to replicate MAGNOLIA, but there's actually much more of an somber intellectual persuasion employed, recalling Lawrence Kasdan's GRAND CANYON than anything else.

In reality, the child will be Capernaüm's protagonist, tasked with shouldering the film's sweeping emotional pull and providing its moral backbone.

At the end, some vastly overreaching tripe posing as a moral backbone is unleashed, making an already excruciating film downright intolerable, It does answer the question on many people's minds about whether Schneider (Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, 50 First Dates) or Spade could actually make worse films than they already have.

I have to say, however, that as simple as these points sound, it takes a tremendous amount of commitment, trust and moral backbone (and Francy!)