Sentences with phrase «moral grounding»

The moral argument is persuasive to anyone recognizing the need for objective moral grounding.

There is a serious lack of integrity and moral grounding in this country.

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

It's unfortunate because in the privacy of their own homes, religious people find comfort and peace and moral grounding for their families.

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.

This time, the researchers used «moral licensing» on half of the participants, a technique in which people are primed to feel on solid moral ground by recounting the good deeds they had done.

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

May's reluctance to condemn and take stronger action against transgressors and enduring mystery when her status as only the second woman prime minister and a female prime minister surely offers the vicar's daughter firm moral ground from which to preach.

Mission, therefore, is implicitly questioned on moral ground as its understood goal is aiming at the ceasing of other religions.

Those who share the therapeutic attitude embrace pluralism and the uniqueness of the individual, and conclude that there is no common moral ground and no publicly relevant morality.

Success, likely is a speaking point of proponents of open markets in the US, despite the clear implications of such (that is why the always use moral groundings, which points back to the irony, and social models discourse).

They would be on much better intellectual and moral ground if they just allowed for the fact that yes, the religious Jews had Jesus killed so that they could protect their authority, but that as much to do with modern Jewish people as the Romans killing the Maccabees has to do with modern Italians — it's utterly irrelevant.

They proclaim moral ground where they stand and attribute much of it to their religion, yet their actions in leading this nation are 180 degrees the opposite.

We reject slavery as absolutely immoral — such rejection of slavery on moral ground clearly has its roots in the Bible, yet is far beyond the way slavery, as a moral issue or a social and economic institution, is discussed in the Bible.

The inclusive well - being of the human race, its realization of the good - in - common, is therefore the needed moral ground of this self - consciousness coming - to - be within history.

If we can respectfully acknowledge that a majority of todays» generation of believers are taught into the faith by their parents, we reluctantly must conclude that the theology base of * a lot * of these believers is not upon careful reflection and personal choice upon the fervent divulgence of the Scriptures, but rather a hodge - podge compilation of «feel good» thoughts that have no biblical or moral grounding other than vague references.

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

I am certain that in the spirit of ethics and command of hired moral ground, Democrat Boss Jacobs will demand that Mr. Cuomo return all of the conflicting contributions that he has amassed to date.»

With some members of the crew now afraid for their safety, Lewin found himself on hazardous moral ground.

Mark and Natasha form a bond that crosses moral ground.

Passages that at first seem tangential eventually link together, leaving a chilling impression: these are intelligent characters whose moral ground is eroding, and whose ideas seduce by appearing to be logical, even as those same ideas remain essentially repugnant.

Director Bill Condon's Kinsey, a biopic scheduled for release this fall and starring Liam Neeson and Laura Linney, has already drawn fire from critics concerned that it will glorify a man whose pursuit of knowledge led him onto some shaky moral ground.

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

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.

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

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.

We moderns, on the other hand, with our profoundly materialistic bias — a bias which leads many influential intellectuals to deny the very existence of a self or a soul — can not reject the world, irrespective of its evil, for we would then have no metaphysical or moral ground on which to stand.

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.

So what is the moral grounding for the assertion that a human being should be conceived by a married mother and father in a conjugal act?

The church can not call gambling a menace, he says, and then give away the moral ground by accepting gambling as a solution to Native American poverty.

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.

But if these events have not set off alarms, it is even less likely that people would be sensitive to that subtler shift of power that runs to the root of the American regime itself: In one issue after another touching the moral ground of our common life, the power to legislate has been withdrawn from the people themselves, or the «consent of the governed,» and transferred by the judges to their own hands.

But even hospitable relatives will stand their moral ground when their own flesh and blood shows up pregnant out of wedlock.

I say again, there is no moral ground to defend the systematic protection of known ped - ophiles within the Church.

My concern was that Wilson could not establish the moral ground of his position; that he ran the risk then of fostering confusion among his own allies about the ground of their opposition to abortion; and that the allies who made themselves suggestible to his arguments were risking a serious erosion in the conviction that they summoned to this issue.

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.

As the moral ground shifts, will moral positions remain the same?

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

When we speak of «justifying,» showing the rightness or justice of a law, we speak about nothing less than establishing its moral ground.