Sentences with phrase «moral failings of others»

The writer then laid out his book's portrait of Mr. Cuomo: descended from a community of clannish and secretive Italians, the product of a demanding yet absent father, a lawyer with questionable business dealings who ascended in politics due to the moral failings of others — Bill Clinton, Jeanine Pirro, Eliot Spitzer, David Paterson — a man «wounded, resentful and angry.»

We're all familiar with our tendency to evaluate our own moral failings more leniently than the moral failings of others.

Yet what on earth have the moral failings of others to do with what he himself pursues with all his heart?

Not exact matches

Then the same pastors suggested that we know what caused the attack and why we deserved it: either we, as a country, had failed to rid the world of poverty or, on the other side of the political ledger, we had tolerated lax moral standards.

OR, might God choose to reveal truth through the experiences of a people who tried to be true to him, certain moral principles, failing again and trying again, people looking for universal truths and communicating them to their children generation after generation, orally and through writing things down, organizing themselves into communities and societies, aiming for justice, teaching each other, defending their families, lives, cities, and governments.

On the other hand, the chief problem with the view of the new reformers is that it fails to recognize that a sexual self, liberated from undertakings that have a moral claim upon it prior to any of its particular intentions and choices, has no satisfactory way to make moral judgments about what it intends, chooses, promises, and then undertakes.

The CENTURY addressed other personal sins and moral failings, regularly speaking to the problems caused by lax divorce laws, and occasionally writing about the evils of gambling, tobacco, and the «sex consciousness» that would accompany the «vociferous demand for the teaching of sex hygiene» in public schools.

Niebuhr said that moral pride «is revealed in all «self - righteous» judgments in which the other is condemned because he fails to conform to the highly arbitrary standards of the self.

He also told them to «clean up» themselves of drunkenness, profanity, drugs, crime and other moral failings.

5 Cause for automatic excommunication also exists in regard to priests who culpably fail to teach the Word of God in its fullness, especially when having been advised of the deficiency and continues to refuse to correct the fault — a clear grave sin of omission the other sacraments a legal priest fulfills legal requirements and has the moral duty to appropriately council, admonish, instruct and approve or disapprove.

«Not all who try to follow the Bible in detail as well as outline are fundamentalists,» says Wright, «nor are they all guilty of those cultural, intellectual, and moral failings which North American (and other) liberals perceive in North American (and other) conservatives.

However, speaking at a rally in Ablekuma North constituency in the Greater Accra region Tuesday, President Mahama said Bawumia and others have no moral right to describe him as such because as Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana in the Kufuor administration they failed to disclose the cost of the cedi redenomination exercise in 2007.

The NPP's flagbearer Nana Akufo - Addo who has failed in all moral aspects of life at the Sunyani congress, in flagrant display of chutzpah stated mischievously among others that «there is no place for moles in my NPP» insinuating against Chairman AFoko and Kwabena Agyepong.

More than a few times, an author contract has been cancelled before publication not because of a moral failing or some other contractual problem, but because the publisher could not resolve a theological disagreement with the author and their manuscript.

I don't know if Ackman and other value investors failed to cut Valeant losses because they fell in love with the company or because they were unable to see or acknowledge their mistake, but the moral of the story is that concentrated investors watching the basket closely can still make costly mistakes.

Games like Metal Gear Solid explicitly position killing the faceless, nameless mooks that populate game worlds as a sort of moral failing, and other games like Chrono Trigger, Ni No Kuni, and Shining Force occasionally show the «wild» monsters you kill as being somewhat intelligent.

As far as this particular shitstorm goes, I suspect it a lot of it is generated not by some allegedly heinous moral breach on Steve's part, but by a genuine [and mostly undisclosed] desire by other people to see him and his colleagues fail.

There are likely other causes for this failure of human perception, intellectual integrity and moral courage, but I would like to ask the Dot Earth community to consider one rather obvious failing.

Many label this effect a «moral hazard» — echoing the economists» explanation of why «too - big to fail» banks happily took excessive risks with other people's money.

The primary myth: small business owners filing for bankruptcy is a sign of a moral failing and should be undertaken only as a last resort after all other avenues have been exhausted.

If the moral or mental developments of a minor or his health are seriously endangered and other measures to avert this danger have failed

The primary myth: small busi - ness owners filing for bank - ruptcy is a sign of a moral failing and should be under - taken only as a last resort af - ter all other avenues have been exhausted.