The intervention in Libya was invoked as an act of moral, not just strategic, leadership.
The freedom to act and a stern moral obligation to act in certain ways were seen as two sides of the same American coin.
Social processes act like a moral fog that envelops all the characters and lets them choose what to do in certain situations.
Last week, Switzerland's justice minister publicly apologised to the victims of administrative detention, saying the apology should be seen as an act of "moral reparation".
In a democratic society, this frees us to push our lawmakers to act in a moral fashion, without having to worry that the reforms we are pushing for will harm our financial interests.
He said: "We have a moral obligation to act on climate change and influence others worldwide to do the same".
"The U.S. has a moral duty to act ... we are waiting for the next steps, " he told The Associated Press by phone from Istanbul.
In 1956 Clinton Rossiter, a political scientist, wrote that Americans wanted their president to make the country rich, to take the lead on domestic policy, to respond to floods, tornadoes and rail strikes, to act as the nation's moral spokesman and to lead the free world.
Lucky for us, American visual artists have a law, the Visual Artist Rights Act (VARA), which grants moral rights to visual artists.
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Even more important is the strong moral case against the Affordable Care Act.
She asked the court to reduce the charge to common theft or illegal possession, saying Gabriele had high moral motives although he had committed an illegal act.
No one can know for certain if this senseless act could have been prevented, but we all know we have a moral obligation -- a moral obligation -- to do everything in our power to diminish the prospect that something like this could happen again.
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The second failure in insurance markets is moral hazard: a person who is insured has less incentive to act carefully than an uninsured person.
Since the book is a key reason my kids were able to go to the colleges of their choices, the moral seems clear to me: Get as much input from your customers as you can and act on it.
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