Sentences with phrase «take the moral high ground on»

Thanks for giving us an opportunity to be proactive and Thank You for taking the moral high ground on behalf of Science and Reason in the debate, which has been reduced to a sophomoric diatribe.

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How many Newts pervade the GOP who disgustingly take the moral high ground by campaigning on «family values» then turn around and abandon a wife with cancer?

I was slightly taken aback about this initially, but her point — that focusing on the moral high ground as leaders in the teaching profession will only yield limited outcomes (as most of us are already there)-- seems fair.

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.

What people like me didn't like was people like you taking the moral high ground, on slender evidence at best, and insisting that everyone should change their lifestyles — because you are right.