Sentences with phrase «on scruples»

When I was a struggling actor in New York, I worked as a temp typist, and remember going to Crown Books to do some work on the Scruples project.

Missionaries had to pay attention to the faith as it was transmitted to and appropriated by new believers rather than rely on scruples that stemmed from the doctrinal disputes of Europe.

Not exact matches

Augustine writes, «This heavenly city, then, while it sojourns on earth, calls citizens out of all nations, and gathers together a society of pilgrims of all languages, not scrupling about diversities in the manners, laws, and institutions whereby earthly peace is secured and maintained, but recognizing that, however various these are, they all tend to one and the same end of earthly peace.

As far as I'm concerned, it would have been better if he'd gone on to his «heaven» and let someone else with actual scruples fill his position.

She dogs Jesus and his followers with her cries; she does not scruple to use Jewish flattery she has no right appropriating («Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me!»).

Why can't they just get on with their good works and forget about their conscientious scruples?

A couple of pages back one of them is defending John Travolta??!! I know there must be gay people with scruples... just not on this blog

Because of religious scruples, Major Taylor refused to ride on Sunday.

I suppose after the Tories misled voters at the general election with a manifesto that could be filed on the fiction shelf, impersonation is an obvious principle - free option for Conservatives without scruples.

It's the krugers, boylands, etc. who are either pigs with no scruples or some poor jerk who can't live on the 79 grand the job pays....

Natural disasters have this annoying habit of putting things in perspective and summoning our hidden scruples: People lost their homes and lives last night; over six million people on the East Coast don't have power right now.

On the First Date, no scruples and no interest in anything but your money.

So says professional killer Jackie Cogan at one point in Killing Them Softly, the third film by New Zealander Andrew Dominik - and considering the filmmaker's efforts to establish a connection between the events in the movie and the economic crisis started in the late 2000s thanks to the greed and lack of scruples of Wall Street, it is easy to see Cogan as an ordinary employee of any company complaining about the lack of vision of his bosses and, on the other hand, the big bankers as Armani - dressing versions of the violent mobsters who inhabit the crime section of the newspapers.

Embry has the lack of scruples of a working - class man with no attachments, not hesitating to leap at Colin's first monetary dares before Craig can even figure out what is going on.

The code name of this awful new stuffed shirt is C — and Bond does not scruple to make crude innuendo on that score.

Dismissing momentary power - to - weight scruples, the team agrees on coffee and strudel at the Hotel Imperial built in 1885, nine years before Emperor Franz Josef I met his German counterpart Wilhelm II on this very same terrace.

Actually, I am finding it distressing that the whole nation is being held hostage by the mindless, led by the gutless, egged on by the clueless, and orchestrated by those who lack scruples, ethics, and morals, but who nevertheless have the necessary greed and money to exercise their total disregard for rational civilized behavior.

Surely I am entitled to observe the irony of the community's scruples against the NCEP reanalysis (undoubtedly deserved) while they remain silent on the continued use of the Graybill bristlecone chronologies under far more dubious circumstances.

As shown in the image on the right, Malcolm Turnbull has said things that indicate he is serious about climate change action, but his lack of action, indeed, his blatant opposition to action on climate change since becoming Australia's Prime Minister suggest that he has put ambition before scruples.

affirmed on those applications that they held deep conscientious scruples against taking part in wars where people were killed.