I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a moral code
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Children acquire their parents’ moral code.
a moral conscience (= an idea of what is right and wrong )
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At what age do children develop a moral conscience?
a moral duty
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She felt it was her moral duty to treat everyone equally.
a moral evil (= a bad thing in relation to principles of what is right and wrong )
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Mental or physical torture is a moral evil, and it can never be justified.
a moral judgment (= based on what you think is right )
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People are always making moral judgments about weight loss.
a moral objection
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He has expressed moral objections to this type of research.
a moral vacuum (= a lack of moral standards )
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Many children are growing up in a moral vacuum.
a moral victory (= when you show your beliefs are right, even if you lose the argument )
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The victims’ families claimed the verdict as a moral victory.
a moral/ethical dimension
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The book discusses the ethical dimension involved in genetic engineering.
a moral/ethical question (= one relating to principles of what is right and wrong )
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This area of medical research poses serious ethical questions that doctors alone cannot answer.
a moral/ethical/political etc dilemma
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Doctors face a moral dilemma over how long to prolong someone's life.
a moral/legal/social obligation
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We have a moral obligation to take care of our environment.
high moral principles
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a man of high moral principles
moral corruption
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Some people see television as a cause of moral corruption in young people.
moral courage (= the courage to do the right thing )
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He said his faith gave him the moral courage to survive his ordeal.
moral high ground
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Neither side in this conflict can claim the moral high ground .
moral imperative
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Sharing food is the most important moral imperative in Semai society.
moral majority
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Smokers today are often made to feel like social outcasts by the moral majority.
moral outrage
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a sense of moral outrage
moral principles
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Criminal law should be used to protect and reinforce moral principles.
moral scruples
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a man with no moral scruples
moral turpitude
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laziness and moral turpitude
moral values
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She had her own set of moral values.
on moral/legal/medical etc grounds
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The proposal was rejected on environmental grounds.
sb's moral/ethical outlook (= beliefs about what is right and wrong )
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Their ethical and moral outlook concerning terrorism is the complete opposite of mine.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
authority
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Although delays were mitigated and judicial efficiency improved, the courts continued to exercise little moral authority .
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He wielded real moral authority , to my eye.
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But we have to admit that Mr Clinton has preserved much more moral authority and effectiveness in office than ever seemed possible.
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When she stood, though, she projected physical power and moral authority .
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Sincere spirit and moral authority count, not quick and easy money.
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In 1945 Rhee possessed moral authority and commanded deep respect, even among those antagonistic to his conservatism.
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The one thing he takes seriously is Buddhism: this anchors his fiery imagination, giving it a species of moral authority .
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I recognize no human moral authority outside my existential self.
career
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Then one's moral career as an adult begins.
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For the women this involved a distinct moral career .
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But there are good reasons for examining how self-realisation and moral careers are developed within civil society.
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Goffman has described how institutions offer individuals a framework for a moral career .
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Underlying the behaviour of an apparently undifferentiated and chaotic mass of hooligans are distinct rules and moral careers .
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Such knowledge and classification represents subjugation of the rest of the population, and the regularisation and standardisation of moral careers .
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Here Jock is recounting a moment in his moral career .
claim
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A national election victory gives a stronger moral claim to rule than a local election.
code
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She emphasised the status of housework as a moral code rather than a logical practice.
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Luther is, after all, true to his own weird moral code .
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He will not voluntarily do anything which conflicts with his personal moral code , nor can he be induced to do so.
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The comedia lacrimosa champions a new moral code founded on friendship, tolerance, humanity and charity.
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This is fairly obvious with a relatively abstract form such as a moral code .
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His parents, he knew, had followed a simpler moral code .
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Anyway the moral code prevents him from taking her back whether he wants to or not.
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Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code ....
dilemma
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His moral dilemmas now appear in novels such as Schindler's Ark, his 1982 Booker prizewinner.
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Snipes gives a brilliant performance as a man caught in a moral dilemma .
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Different moral considerations might apply for different people in the face of similar moral dilemmas .
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When a clinical situation poses a genuine moral dilemma , by definition no right answer exists.
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The boy presented me with a moral dilemma .
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There are plenty of moral dilemmas .
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It takes no account of the moral dilemmas of human life.
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Dante wrote that the hottest room in hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral dilemma .
duty
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The duty to compensate the defamed person is itself a moral duty.
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Though not under a legal liability to maintain his illegitimate child, the father is under a moral duty to do so.
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One person might consider it his moral duty to fight and another to desist from fighting.
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No violation of moral duty is involved.
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And the same may be said of most other merely moral duties .
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It manipulates the environment, and it is able to enforce moral duties on those who are inclined to disregard them.
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In their view serving the state was the highest moral duty and no state had external obligations.
education
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Traditionally it has meant some form of moral education to encourage pupils to develop attitudes of cooperation and concern for justice.
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It abhors all violence and relies upon moral education , love and sympathy to secure human progress.
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Many other themes concerned with moral education could be given.
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As both emphasize, moral education can not proceed effectively in an economically unjust society.
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The attempt to use the theatre for purposes of moral education , still practised in Schiller's time, was soon discredited.
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Bradwell also claimed that the issue highlighted conflicting rights of parents and school over the moral education of the children.
fibre
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But now I shall leave you with one final anecdote which impinges on both issues of morale and moral fibre .
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Even when he was trying to be a criminal, the low moral fibre shone through.
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The Zeitgeist has proved more powerful than her own undoubted moral fibre and the historical influence of her own Church and family.
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Some people believe that the effect of the Zeitgeist is invariably to weaken moral fibre and signal the downfall of the nation.
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The problem does not arise merely through lack of moral fibre .
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It isn't just lack of moral fibre which leads to a rising divorce rate.
ground
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Even the most loyal officials found it increasingly difficult to defend serfdom on moral grounds .
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The argument on moral grounds is not so easy.
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Lehman Brothers, the investment banking firm handling the sale, went to Harvester and objected on simple moral grounds .
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Many providers remove groups on moral grounds , or to avoid controversy.
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Having gained the high moral ground , I was reluctant to quit it right away.
imperative
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None the less, the moral imperatives that are intrinsic to the student role will always reassert themselves.
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Are moral imperatives stronger than political power?
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If we proceed from prudential to moral imperatives , will the conditions of the choice be fundamentally changed?
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But it is also a moral imperative .
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Sometimes there's a moral imperative and you feel everything building up behind you that you have to do it.
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If there are no absolutes or eternal values, then the moral imperative behind such movements evaporates into thin air.
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That the moral imperative was not a sufficient condition has already been remarked upon.
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Ending discrimination against older consumers may be regarded as a moral imperative , but it also makes sound economic sense.
issue
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There's a difference between moralising and opening up moral issues .
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Teachers can engage students, even at the preschool level, in discussions of moral issues .
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But they do have a gut feeling that abortion is a moral issue .
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He favored letting the moral issues be resolved by communities governing themselves at the local level.
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But he's not prepared to compromise on what he regards as a moral issue .
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Despite the term, it is not a moral issue , it is simply a question of economic incentives.
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Nor a question of manners, or a moral issue concerned with how those who serve the public behave.
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Part of the reason our poverty keeps growing is related to the economy, and part of it is a moral issue .
law
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It is not that I have no reason to submit to the moral law and can do as I please.
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But the moral law of the Old Testament retains eternal validity.
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This moral law includes the ten commandments.
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The moral law had been covered with casuistry and hypocrisy.
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Kant answers the first questions by contending that we can not strictly speaking know that there is such a moral law .
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Most people agree that the moral law protects the weak.
objection
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Aides had denied she had any moral objections but said she had longstanding private engagements to fulfil.
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He knew the sort of people he was addressing and he knew the sort of moral objections they found most satisfying.
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We make a big show of our moral objections , but what really puts us off are the technical ones.
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There were moral objections to children being blown out of sleep to death on a filthy street.
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Apart from any moral objections , researchers are scared that they will be deprived of fame and fortune by military secrecy.
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There were moral objections to house lizards being senselessly butchered by madmen.
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This is quite apart from any moral objections that might arise.
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And moral objections to people spending their lives shooting scag.
obligation
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Poor rates mounted, and many magistrates and overseers continued their moral obligations but in a spirit of growing hopelessness.
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If evolution has hard-wired into us a belief that there are objective moral obligations , then we will believe that there are.
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After all, you're under no moral obligation to them.
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But what would transform it from an externally enforced to a moral obligation ?
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It is much easier to bury a problem than to consider whether our moral obligation lies elsewhere.
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First, do states in fact have moral obligations ?
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They have a moral obligation to build a path.
order
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Law bolstered the moral order of society and judges, as custodians of those values, were deserving of respect and trust.
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The imposed moral order held precedence over the claims of both truth and love.
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More particularly, different aspects and different consequences of this previous moral order are identified.
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Historically, however, such facts are now in question; hence, the moral orders , too, that they support.
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One stresses that a rational and moral order can be created from a universally valid set of moral principles.
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When individual desires go beyond the moral order then people become dissatisfied with life and social cohesion begins to break down.
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Industrial societies can not be run by an absolute moral order-the final imposition of righteousness on earth.
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The other main strand in nineteenth-century feminism accepted the idea of women as the natural guardians of the moral order .
outrage
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Whatever the topic under discussion, they automatically began with some resentful expression of moral outrage .
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However, such public condemnation and the associated moral outrage can, on occasions, be strangely muted.
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Regional officers had lived for many years with successive waves of moral outrage about the scandalous conditions within the asylums.
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Media reports of child abuse cases often express this sense of moral outrage .
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And moral outrage at the use of simple expedients can still run high.
panic
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Acid House comes a close second to football fans in the tabloids' top ten of moral panics .
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This has led to the creation of a moral panic on campuses.
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Indeed notions of moral indignation, moral panic or moral conflict are not used in this perspective at all.
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Societies appear subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic .
philosophy
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Kant Kant's moral philosophy is sharply opposed to the moral sense approach of Hutcheson and Hume.
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Smith began to teach logic and moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow.
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Any verdict we pass on punishment must be soundly based on an acceptable general moral philosophy .
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He had just been appointed professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow.
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It is plain from all of this how moral philosophy is taken to depend on natural philosophy.
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I am surprised that he did not cite as evidence in support of his case the moral philosophy of his own Monklands District Council.
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Of course, not everyone is well versed in moral philosophy .
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Both theories are exercises in analytical moral philosophy which aspire to provide rational principles to support particular conceptions of just social arrangements.
principle
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A sanitary code which sought to evade fundamental moral principles could never ultimately succeed.
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Two, can you come up with some moral principle , some ethical issue that is so important it justifies deception?
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One stresses that a rational and moral order can be created from a universally valid set of moral principles .
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They would rather get beaten on their moral principles and convictions than be corrupted by political deals.
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To some there may be occasion to place a moral principle above a legal one.
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By the mid-nineties, many adolescents had no answer when asked what moral principles might apply to a particular circumstance.
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I do not think that we should be against such moral principles .
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There is no single moral principle which is sole and supreme and can never conflict with any other.
problem
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They see it as a scientific rather than a moral problem .
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It certainly is not the most important moral problem that betrays our honor and diminishes our possibilities for self-esteem.
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The feminist response to abortion as a moral problem has been ambivalent.
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Almost immediately the new coalition began to question the criminal law approach to moral problems .
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The applied ethics strand is represented by a unit concerned with moral problems relating to conflict between persons, groups and societies.
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It is essentially a technical rather than a moral problem .
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Yet even with this verdict, moral problems still remain.
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Sitting furtively with my contraband, I ruminated on whether addiction itself is considered the moral problem .
question
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I think that soaps and crime series are two of the few arenas where moral questions are debated.
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But those are moral questions as well as psychological questions.
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It is a moral question at root.
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Ed gave his typical response to a loaded moral question .
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The basic anti-abortion argument boils down to a moral question .
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Whether a particular accused should be acquitted because his conduct was not dishonest appears to me to be a moral question .
responsibility
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Put briefly, there developed an idea of the pervasive religious and moral responsibility of the ruler.
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These ties bear hardest on those who tend to accept moral responsibility for caring roles.
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This meant that man has an inescapable moral responsibility for his own actions.
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The real priority was a greater stress on moral responsibility in the education of the sons of the upper class.
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Philosophers and psychologists alike have eroded all our old assumptions of free will and moral responsibility .
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We are interested now in the question of moral responsibility .
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The company accepted moral responsibility for the disaster, but claimed that the plant was sabotaged by a disgruntled employee.
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Will he exercise influence on the Soviet Union to accept its moral responsibility ?
right
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I have heard of chaps being accused of asserting their conjugal rights , but asserting moral rights is obviously something else.
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He is willing to fight for his social and moral rights .
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In like manner the suffrage of women prior to 1918 was a claimed moral right .
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This led several members of the Congress to question the Assembly's moral right to initiate political reforms.
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The penal system wields power over its subjects, but its moral right to do so has been coming under strong attack.
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Theyconvince themselves that they have some moral right to their victim's coin collection.
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The new Act also covers moral rights .
sense
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Individuals, except in an ultimate moral sense , are unequal. 6.
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Are we free to modify Our moral sense by rational reflection and conscious goal-setting or not?
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Kant Kant's moral philosophy is sharply opposed to the moral sense approach of Hutcheson and Hume.
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She treated her crisis as a literary event; she lost her moral sense , her judgment, her power to distinguish.
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One loses one's moral sense when lust becomes dominant.
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Only a theory that is completely certain should be allowed to undermine this moral sense .
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My moral sense has been dulled by too many years here.
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Enabling people not just to keep alert but to feel they are still learning and growing makes economic as well as moral sense .
standard
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Stone also emphasizes the extent to which women accepted the double moral standard .
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He feared that in the absence of moral standards , workers could be abused and exploited.
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Religions frequently fail to live up to their high moral standards .
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He has dumped several party members for violating his personal moral standards .
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The need to survive, which always dictates the moral standards of society, once more underlined the role of the women.
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High moral standards and all that.
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The central concern for all these groups is with what they perceive to be declining moral standards .
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By the moral standards of some of the bargainers the claims of some of the others may be immoral.
superiority
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Pip now falls into a snobbish habit of connecting high social status with moral superiority .
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Underlying this hostility was a profound belief in the ethical and moral superiority of collective welfare provision.
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Serving large helpings, I ate nothing myself and my abstinence was only another proof of my moral superiority .
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Pleasure will be an adult privilege, a mark of economic power, class status and moral superiority .
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In one area, however, she does come into her own, since she has spiritual strength and moral superiority .
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Of Canon Wheeler's moral superiority to herself she was unconvinced.
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The preservationists, pinning their faith to moral superiority and persuasive argument, were beaten back every time.
support
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Voice over Finally, Dawn came here, where she's been given practical and moral support .
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When a baby is newborn, friends, family, and even strangers deluge us with moral support and advice.
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I don't believe Wellington stayed to give De Gaulle moral support .
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I want you there not just for moral support but to have a witness present.
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He can also make a point of talking to Mr Yeltsin and other republican leaders to offer them moral support .
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Last year they gave heavy financial and moral support to Democrats.
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The frontiersman heroes such as Davy Crockett no longer excite our moral support .
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Mahdi denies that his movement wants weapons or financing from Washington, saying moral support and diplomatic pressure are enough.
turpitude
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This would lead to a graph of illegalities graded according to moral turpitude .
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This was long before Eastern Airlines fired him for moral turpitude and for making false claims about a medical background.
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There may be no moral turpitude or manipulation as such.
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It kept them from moral turpitude . 21.
vacuum
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Nevertheless the discretion is not to be exercised in a moral vacuum .
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There is no satisfying solution to the moral vacuum that is created when one human being murders another.
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In both cases the result of improvement is a dehumanized landscape and something like a moral vacuum .
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Young people from welfare-dependent single-parent families just aren't artful dodgers ready to graduate into serious crime and a moral vacuum .
value
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As are the author's stern moral values that are reflected on page after page of the novel.
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They include judgment and moral values .
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In another case, though, they lose all moral value and lead only to bookkeeping and arguing.
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Speechwriters are not expected to have the same moral values as other people in political life.
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They have always been unseemly, since they make a mockery of the moral values they purport to uphold.
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Eight percent said a decline in moral values worried them the most.
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Their moral values are a bit intolerant, too.
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If they are to last over time, moral values must contribute to successful human survival.
victory
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Although it saved them substantial costs, these cases were not exactly searing moral victories for the healthcare plans.
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Those are the kinds of moral victories that eluded them in Game 1.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
custodian of tradition/moral values etc
mental/intellectual/moral gymnastics
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I changed into my running clothes and did three miles while I went through the mental gymnastics of getting the case organized.
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None the less, great feats of mental gymnastics were per-formed to make them into atmospheric phenomena.
take the (moral) high road
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Daley has taken the high road in his campaign, trying to ignore Merriam's attacks.
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Instead, I decided to take the high road.
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Read in studio Still to come on Central News, taking the high road.
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She was at least making the attempt to take the high road, only to run into a dead end.
the moral majority
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As moral people, we cannot accept that so many children grow up in poverty.
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Everything that he writes has a high moral purpose.
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Parents are responsible for giving their children moral guidance.
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The company is managed according to strict moral and ethical principles.
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They live according to a deeply held moral code.
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We follow the moral laws laid down by our religion.
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Women have a moral right to work without being sexually harassed.
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You have a moral obligation to help your sister's children.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But as in the 1830s their participation involved a reworking of moral discourse.
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Eight percent said a decline in moral values worried them the most.
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He cautioned, however, that the broadcaster tries to be a moral educator rather than an objective news presence.
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It is also true that moral reasoning does not ensure consistent moral behavior.
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They see it as a scientific rather than a moral problem.
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This is involved in becoming aware of oneself as a self-conscious moral agent.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
loose
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Within Mr Quinn's own party, there will doubtless be those with looser morals than Mr Ashdown's.
public
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The concern of the prosecution in 1960 was with the corruption of public morals .
■ VERB
draw
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But: less fastidious ministers in future may draw the corporatist moral .
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I shall now draw some general morals from this sketch of the structure of Peirce's philosophical thought.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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There was a lot of public debate about the morality of the invasion.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But this putatively happy ending holds no morals for Cal.
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So feel free to fill your children with lessons and morals from this story.
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Stricter morals also were more widely accepted in those days.
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The moral is simple: do not let up until the time-up bell sounds.
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The doctor, whatever her politics and morals, had lovely skilful hands, which Phoebe could not but admire.
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These beautiful new books, filled with morals and happy endings, help us hold on to our storytelling heritage.
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Warning rather than exhortation to virtue is the style of the fabliau morals.
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We repudiated entirely customary morals, conventions and traditional wisdom.