Sentences with phrase «moral case»

And regardless of whether medical self - defense should be recognized as a constitutional right, the arguments given above should offer a strong moral case for the legislature's respecting such a right.

Yes, you do make a good moral case to pay what you owe.

It was a remarkable triumph for a long campaign by the small island states, proving that even tiny nations, armed with a powerful moral case, can change the world.

Sunder: In the interests of intellectual strictness I have qualified the comment about the lack of intellectual and moral case against PR to refer specifically to the two lines of argument featured in the post.

It was richer also in the way it wove that evidence together with principled reasoning and brought forth a compelling moral case for the law to provide protection for that offspring developing in the womb.

You're not going to do well arguing that kind of moral case with the Chinese — they'll make chopsticks out of you.

In that way, students will be given the best opportunity not only to appreciate the strength of the Catholic moral case, but also the weakness of other positions which very often seem to be accepted uncritically by students and teachers alike.

«The same moral case never appears twice in the world.

He made a far better moral case for free enterprise than anyone before him; he had a penetrating insight into the American idea and the dangers besetting it; he probed the depths of both religious experience and secular nihilism with precision and compassion.

Since December 2015, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has made the constitutional, political, economic, and moral case against the Paris Climate Treaty.

There is a compelling moral case that Arsene Wenger, out of respect for past glories and general achievements, should be allowed to do whatever he wants with Arsenal, for as long as he wants.

The moral case may vary from leader to leader as companies change leadership, but the business case is self - perpetuating.

Both continue to highlight the moral case for acting on climate, and are looking forward to Pope Francis driving home that point on June 18, when he delivers his much - anticipated encyclical on the environment.

«Usually the moral cases don't hold up very well in the shareholder resolution arena because most investors are looking at the bottom line,» Welsh said.

Significant US evangelicals such as Wayne Grudem have made a moral case for voting for Donald Trump.

Paul Johnson, the British journalist - historian, recently wrote that Michael Novak has probably done more than anybody since Adam Smith to advance the moral case for market economies.

The best single article I've seen on the moral case for parental choice in education is «School Choice as Simple Justice,» published in First Things (April 1992) and written by Prof. John Coons of the law school of the University of California, Berkeley.

But the moral case standing on its own is not enough to persuade the majority of voters.

The moral case is focused on the plight of the disadvantaged, especially the urban underclass, mainly black and Latino, in our larger cities.

«There is no better place to find the moral case for capitalism and individualism,» he told the pro-Rand Atlas Society in 2005, «than through Ayn Rand's writings and works.»

The American founders and Lincoln understood that the case against slavery was grounded in nature, and the moral case would be the same in all «cultures» where that nature remained the same.

I doubt the journal would have published a moral case for slavery, or one for race - based hierarchies, not matter how well - argued.

The intellectual / moral case is so straightforward.

In this instance, Thompson utilised the prism of public figures making the case for war and how pressure acting upon them to make the moral case as well as the pragmatic case for war has led to a warping of the debate over foreign policy.

At some point after the wars have ended, the spirit of the law will get lost, and the moral case for adhering to anything but the letter of the law will become muddied, blurred.

But there is a moral case against taxation too — and a surprisingly strong one.

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What is strange, however, is that so many voices within Israel perceive this moral case to be internally coherent and justified when a brief analysis finds it woefully lacking in both logic and foundation.

«The lesson of Damian McBride's memoirs is that Labour is the Nasty Party Main Politics is about more than maths - Conservatives must make the moral case for welfare reform»

He claimed that there was a «moral case» for cutting welfare and insisted that the government's reforms would give people «hope» for the future.

«The moral case for keeping the promise to halve child poverty by 2010 is now matched by the economic urgency of giving our ailing economy a cash boost through family purses.

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This week Mr Clegg outlined the moral case for benefits reform.

«There's always been a moral case for stopping slavery,» he writes.

But amidst the search for a kinder and gentler education politics, research demonstrating the positive effect of these New York City strategies makes the moral case clear for an incoming President and for states and districts rethinking education policies: The American education system presents intolerably long odds to low - income children attending persistently struggling schools, and sometimes the most appropriate response to dramatic failure is dramatic intervention.

Speaking in Indianapolis before a friendly audience of school voucher proponents, she instead laid out a moral case to dramatically transform American education — and improve young people's prospects — by expanding school choice.

«Usually the moral cases don't hold up very well in the shareholder resolution arena because most investors are looking at the bottom line,» Welsh said.

Given the growing and now flagrant discrepancies between prediction and observation that we have revealed here for the first time, the moral case for defunding the profiteers of climate doom and redeploying the money to give coal - fired light and heat to the world's poorest people is overwhelming.

The strategy marks an important shift in communication focus, as Obama and allies make the moral case for action on climate change and in the process morally stigmatize their opponents.

They seem to be advocating action to mitigate climate change on the basis that a correlation between CO2 and global temperature is sufficient to make the political and moral case.

Bear in mind that in the 1860's, it took this country five bloody years to turn back the moral case for slavery.

He started with what struck me as a «moral case for fossil fuels» inspired confession: «I'm guilty.

It is part of a larger effort to boost the moral case for action by drawing attention to what McKibben calls global warming's «terrifying new math.»

Although the moral case for divesting from coal is a powerful one, the economic case for doing so is equally compelling.