There is a good case for opposing tough mandatory sentences merely on moral grounds.
While U.S. support for Tibet is usually defended on moral grounds, this an issue where idealism and realism are aligned.
Among other things, it gave cover to Republicans who otherwise would have felt compelled to oppose the bill on moral grounds.
It should crank up defence spending, and denounce China on moral grounds.
It was interesting to see just how far the boundaries could be pushed with an idea which, initially, seemed completely unmarketable on moral grounds.
Some, like Charles Lane, are criticizing teachers on moral grounds for trying to take money from taxpayers and allegedly not caring about the children.
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Nor, on moral grounds, would the serviceman in charge kill him.
Quayle lost no time in going after Clinton on moral grounds.
Though the case for liberalisation seems to be making headway in most liberal democracies, there are still many who oppose, on moral grounds, anything that smacks of official sanctioning of sex for money.
This is the most dangerous of all these illusions, because it treads on moral grounds and arguably lulls citizens and hence public opinion into a sense of heightened righteousness and false security.
In one of the best of these, "Crime and Punishment, " from 1991, he rejected the idea that punishment must always serve utilitarian purposes (rehabilitation, deterrence) and defended, on moral grounds, the concept of retribution.
Tripathi demanded Mr. Srinivasan's resignation on moral grounds.
Equally important is the fact that unless healthcare providers are able to defend, on moral grounds, their right to profit from their activities, they will be unable to resist any wage controls, price controls, or forced participation in government healthcare programs that may be placed upon them.
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But even as some degree of liberation descends upon the Egyptian film industry, there are reminders about the boundaries of tastes - a lesbian kiss in Khaled Youssef's latest film "Until Things Get Better" brought calls for the director and both actresses to be jailed on moral grounds.
Whether on tactical or moral grounds, Mr Ahern has privately told the pro-referendum camp, including four conservative independents who usually vote with his government, of his understanding and sympathy.
The risks and costs of maintaining a clandestine underworld are too great, and covert action cannot be justified on either pragmatic or moral grounds.
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After the Montesinos scandal broke, the opposition gained control of Congress for the first time in eight years and dismissed Mr Fujimori on grounds of "moral incapacity".
But in the odd way that criminals sometimes are, the Krays are revered on moral, as well as aesthetic, grounds.
As rich countries become more health-conscious, it makes both business sense and moral sense for the tobacco industry to defend its activities on the grounds of some such liberal balancing of freedom and restraint.
By popular moral standards, this sort of discrimination would be considered objectively wrong, on the grounds that it is unfair.
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If President Bush allows such lemonade to be made by those who really remain on the other side in this nation's fight against terror, he risks undermining the moral grounds necessary to maintain popular support for his war effort.
The choice for those who truly care, is either to stand passively by on the edge of a very slippery slope and watch legitimate rights continually eroded by floods of activists claiming moral superiority and ever-expanding executive privilege, or to stand defiantly, and aggressively defend them on sound legal grounds.
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