Sentences with phrase «to claim the moral high ground»

In no way can business seek to claim the moral high ground by simply paying its taxes.

You need to hold yourselves to a higher standard if you have any hope of claiming the moral high ground.

Managing China: Rather than checking China's ambitions, Trump's tariff move will allow Beijing to claim the moral high ground as a supporter of multilateral and open trade.

The mix of politics and policy muddied the minimum wage waters for Cuomo, and made it a little hard for him to claim the moral high ground while pushing for this issue.

China can not claim the moral high ground on trade matters; in fact, there is a strong case to be made that American voters» resentment of China's unfair trade practices is what put Trump in the White House in the first place.

Seeking to claim the moral high ground in his ongoing battle with the Senate Republicans over the renewal of mayoral control, de Blasio skipped a second hearing on the subject held by the conference in Manhattan.

So much gall they can hack dead girls» phones and still claim the moral high ground.

The day is gone when paternalistic oldline Protestant ecumenical advocates could easily claim the moral high ground.

If you will abide pedophilia, genocide, withholding condoms in Africa, etc. without protest you can not remotely claim the moral high ground.

You see... it's difficult to claim the moral high ground when the last Labour leader is such an overtly greedy bastard, for all to see.

While de Blasio is unlikely to be granted a substantial renewal, he is now angling to claim moral high ground over the Senate Republicans.

With few remaining options, de Blasio has opted to repeatedly claim the moral high ground by indicating Senate Republicans are playing politics with the education of over 1 million students.

«On the one hand claiming a moral high ground to get «outside money» out of politics, yet spending $ 40,000 in support of a candidate using said outside money.

But each had the same characteristics as the intellectual - property revolt going on right now: an economically powerful social class with the law solidly on its side; increased enforcement accompanied by increased resistance from an identifiable group claiming the moral high ground; and, ultimately, a complete and often dramatic reversal.

Instead, they try to claim the moral high ground while posting a $ 3 million «For Rent» sign outside their offices.

Rather than checking the country's ambitions, the move will likely increase its confidence and assertiveness on the global stage, allowing Beijing to claim the moral high ground as a supporter of multilateral and open trade.

So, in essence, the NTP is a treaty where the countries who have nukes work together to prevent anyone else to get them, which is perfectly logical from a strategical point of view, but has no right to claim any moral high ground.

De Blasio, seeking to claim moral high ground, explained his absence at that hearing by noting that he had answered nearly four hours of questions — mostly unrelated to mayoral control — at a hearing in Albany in early May.

Don't let him come here and grandstand and claim the moral high ground.»

Spitzer's pathetic attempt to claim the moral high ground is part of the revisionism not only of his disastrous 14 months as governor, but of his entire career.

It's not as simple as saying that truth has become irrelevant, but when neither side is trusted to begin with it's much harder for one to claim the moral high ground.

Once again, Mayor Bill de Blasio is claiming the moral high ground to justify a decision that places a huge sum of taxpayer cash in his pockets.

«People who are not victims of these disorders have claimed the moral high ground.

Either that or he gets annoyed, and she's able to dump him, claiming the moral high ground — «he couldn't handle it!»

Educational leaders shouldn't suggest that only one side of the debate can claim moral high ground, he says.

Opponents of the unions have claimed the moral high ground, accusing the two main national teachers unions — the NEA and the American Federation of Teachers — of protecting teachers» interests at the expense of children, accusations that have damaged its image.

Claiming some moral high ground while they try to legislate themselves a free pass to same things that good, right - minded people earned through hard work.

In the leadup to Copenhagen, the Chinese have made it clear they intend to claim the moral high ground.