Moreover, their moral high ground has been undermined by the dismal state of their own business.
He grew up on the left and assumed that the left stood on the moral high ground.
By closing Guantanamo, we can regain the moral high ground in the battle against these terrorist organizations.
Both national security priorities and the moral high ground demand such a regime be confronted, not accommodated.
Tata, more than anyone else, stands on a stronger moral high ground to speak out loud against Ambani.
To the end, he wanted it all ways: he wanted the moral high ground, the celebrity, the money.
He also used the leaking of the report as an excuse to aim for the moral high ground.
He may occupy the moral high ground, but most often he's the one picking himself out of the dust.
And a new cast of transatlantic characters makes it harder for the British to claim the moral high ground.
If you believe money has a strangle hold over the entire political system this is ceding the moral high ground.
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Since the Great Depression advocates of big government have occupied the moral high ground when it comes to debating issues.
Unlike Mr Kabila, he holds the moral high ground, indeed all the ground, since there is no other viable government.
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It still likes to think of itself as occupying the moral high ground won by having displaced General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.
And has PM Manmohan Singh, the soft-spoken technocrat with a clean image, lost the "moral high ground", as a critic says?
Politics and morality are inescapably intertwined and few politicians head for the moral high ground with greater alacrity than the prime minister.
NGOs, and appropriate the moral high ground while pursuing low economic ends.
"This is not a simple issue and I don't think anybody is trying to claim moral high ground on this at all, " he said.
By the mid-1990s, after the bankrupt Barings bank deserted its bondholders, he declared that the City could no longer claim the moral high ground.
His government has the moral high ground for the moment, but claims by Mr Bashir that it is backing his enemies are hard to disprove.
Romney receives a massive federal subsidy to campaign for president, but so does Obama, so neither candidate holds the moral high ground on that point.
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Perhaps, if we put ourselves on a course of financial prudence, we will have the moral high ground to demand it of our government and corporations.
While we may have had the moral high ground, we were up against the whole force of the state machinery, and it was an uneven contest.
But before anyone starts claiming moral high ground, it is worth appreciating why some of the things happening on Wall Street are unlikely to happen here.
He grabbed a bit of moral high ground by reminding Shaun Woodward that he - in contrast to his Labour predecessor - had met Geraldine Finucane.
Nor does the government have the moral high ground from which to call for an end to exactly the same strategy that it adopted when in opposition.
The more this approach is articulated to grasp the moral high ground in the years ahead, the less the wicked will be missed when they are gone.
Ironically, the one area where Perry is clearly on both pragmatic and moral high ground is where his supporters are turning their backs on him the quickest: immigration.
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"We are men and leaders who want to make a difference and we have decided that the time has come for us to choose the moral high ground, " he said.
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