Studying moral elevation led me to study feelings of awe more generally, and before I knew it, I was trying to understand a whole class of positive emotions in which people feel as though they have somehow escaped from or "transcended" their normal, everyday, often petty self.

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Its exact form is not yet clear, but it seems likely that legislation will be approved later this year, against approving background noise from politicians lamenting the moral decline that has led to widespread abuse of the old bankruptcy law.

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Documents were submitted to the judiciary in May 2011 and it was the Bank of Italy's "moral suasion" that led to the ousting of Monte dei Paschi's management last year as the central bank did not have the powers to dismiss managers, the people said.

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Worldwide capital flight and the moral condemnation that accompanied it led to the dismantling of apartheid in the early 1990s.

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In Honduras, "Rodriguez has long led the pack in terms of moral authority and social influence, " Allen wrote i n a profile ahead of the papal election, or conclave.

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That sense of connection, that sense of empathy, that moral compass, that conviction of what is right is what led the National Association of Evangelicals to shoot short films to help people grasp the challenges facing immigrants.

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The lack of moral compass, in combination with a lack of effective regulation, has led to this deep and long-lasting crisis.

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The Arizona state senator who sponsored SB1070, Russell Pearce, is also Mormon, which has led to speculation that this is why the Mormon Church has not yet expressed a moral opinion on the matter.

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