It is harder for Mr Blair to defend the war's strategy than its morality.

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Gone are the old planters, who rejected capitalism and its morality of voluntary business relationships.

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It rejects the aspiration of political liberalism to neutrality among conceptions of morality while simultaneously retaining its spirit by sectioning off social morality from other normative domains.

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If Mr Harding's analogy is correct, the hacking story may also spread beyond the shocking and possibly criminal antics of a few, to engulf popular journalism generally, with probing questions about its behaviour, integrity and morality.

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The backlash was censorious, strict in its views on the family and personal morality, and predominantly suburban.

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The broader questions of the wisdom and morality of the assault would be beyond its mandate.

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After the Iran-Iraq war, the Basij returned to its role as an internal security force to enforce Islamic morality.

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But morality has little to do with the relationships that the federal government builds with its cooperators.

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