He grew up on the left and assumed that the left stood on the moral high ground.
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.
Unlike Mr Kabila, he holds the moral high ground, indeed all the ground, since there is no other viable government.
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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.
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.
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.
"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.
If the only way he can force you to give 'em up is through scorn and ridicule, he's more than willing to do it, even as he claims the moral high ground.
Economists said Berlusconi commanded neither sufficient political authority to push through spending cuts nor the moral high ground to squeeze more taxes out of Italians while he faced trial on various charges.
And has PM Manmohan Singh, the soft-spoken technocrat with a clean image, lost the "moral high ground", as a critic says?
But writing in the Daily Mail, Lord Carey - who was Archbishop of Canterbury between 1991 and 2002 - said the bishops "cannot lay claim to the moral high-ground".
It should mean a better deal for taxpayers, and a more efficient commission, even if the spectacle of the European Parliament seizing the high moral ground takes some getting used to.
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By tackling the issue now it could regain the high moral ground (at the same time as forging ahead in the clean-energy business, which Europe might otherwise dominate).
In a most Silicon Valley touch, Google started a public policy blog, where its employees tried to stake out the high moral ground.
Clearly, Jolie has chosen the high moral ground of trying to save lives by publicizing the procedure and stating that she feels as beautiful as ever.
The resort to this sinking moral high ground is made by people properly concerned with the human ill of racism, but so preemptively concerned with it that they now layer that racial consciousness over the evidence of other features of reality.
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And, if that's the argument, then on what moral high ground do Latinos stand to also push -- as we should -- for Latino actors and actresses to be considered for generic and mainstream roles that could have gone to white actors?
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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Moreover, their moral high ground has been undermined by the dismal state of their own business.
We are a nation that stands on high moral ground and are in the position to help others have the same.
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.
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