Trouble is, few people disagree with the moral imperative of a war grounded in humanitarian principles.
More strategists with the moral conviction of Professor Richard Quinn could no doubt eliminate the need for whistle blowers in the corporate world.
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It supplies you with the moral and intellectual ammunition to stand up to those claiming to own a piece of you--family, community and state--and take control of your own destiny.
By suggesting he is uncomfortable with the moral dimensions of capitalism, Pope Francis has created a mini-furor among both free market types who are offended, and neo-socialists seeking support from the most powerful spiritual leader in Christianity.
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Instead of evaluating the meritorious careers of the candidates on the ballot by thoroughly studying their statistical achievements and contributions, the Baseball Writers Association of America is now wrestling with the moral conundrum of sifting through a laundry list of confirmed, accused or rumored cheaters by using the subjective criteria of sportsmanship, integrity and character.
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"The larger issue is how to attract quality candidates with the right moral compass and improving ballot access for those people, " Sleight said.
Disclosure goes to the heart of the truthfulness with which a nominee engages the American people, and it assures us that he in fact has comported himself before the election with the high moral character we associate with a future president.
The remake muddies the waters with self-consciousness: Scorsese and the screenwriter, Wesley Strick, have loaded the movie with apparent moral ambiguities, facile ideas about guilt and redemption, and explicit attempts to portray the scuzzy villain as a mythic nemesis.
Liberty may be a mandatory whistle-stop for Republican presidential aspirants, who come to deliver commencement addresses and grab photo ops with the founding father of the Moral Majority.
So with the scourge of moral and strategic blindness rampant not only in Europe and America, but within his own government, Netanyahu rapidly approaches his moment of truth.
Romney is less likely to be satisfied with the state of American moral values than Obama.
"Anything that is done will be with full respect to the moral hazard that would be created, " he added.
It portrays Mr Ivanishvili as a saintly figure with the work ethic of Bill Gates and the moral fibre of Gandhi.
If we are a nation of promise breakers who borrows with no sense of the moral imperative to repay, our IOUs become worthless.
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In the grand scheme of things, though, why even worry about whether being a champion at banging a tiny ball around with a stick wipes the moral slate clean of prior sins?
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The problem with this line of argument is that both the prime minister and the chancellor invested the government's pragmatic attempts to stem tax avoidance with the rhetoric of a moral crusade.
"We're at the level of infants in moral responsibility, but with the technological capability of adults, " he says.
The choice of white privilege as the denominator in this idea is a decision to accuse, not just of advantage or even immunity, but also of the due expectation of prerogative, and thus to charge with complicity, to impugn the natural moral consciousness, against proof to the contrary, of those so designated, simply by the color of their skin.
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Her baseless testimony, he realizes, has been wrung from her under torture, and the ardor of this sequence, with its blaze of moral anguish, makes the rest of the movie, for all its mountainous trials of endurance, feel a little flat and stretched out.
And has PM Manmohan Singh, the soft-spoken technocrat with a clean image, lost the "moral high ground", as a critic says?
Jerry Seslowe, managing director of a holding company that Anschutz founded with the Pritzker family, recalls Anschutz's moral outrage in the early 1980s after taking his wife to see Pippin.
Jerry Seslowe, the managing director of a holding company that Anschutz founded with the Pritzker family, recalls Anschutz's moral outrage in the early 1980s after he took his wife to see Pippin.
The setting is a sunshiny suburban town that seems to have been scrubbed with a strong moral disinfectant, and the picture features the usual quarrels, flirtations, and pranks, culminating at the prom.
Meanwhile, the banker chosen by St Paul's Cathedral to head a group looking to reconnect "the financial with the ethical" has warned that the market economy has "managed to slip its moral moorings" with "disastrous consequences".
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Mullen also talked with her local pastor about the moral implications of her spearheading the effort.
Conservatives like to contrast what they see as a Confucian stress on social harmony and moral rectitude with the West's emphasis on individual rights.
But, if the main objective is to draw all European countries into dialogue, that will not in practice be compatible with the maintenance of uniformly high moral and political standards for membership.
Those with moral objections to the nature of this debt should consider whether the Irish authorities should have rejected a deal that reduced the burden of the debt because of the absence of an unattainable deal.
Through its regulation of the private investment firms among which personal account investors can choose, the government can limit and control the risks workers can take on with their personal accounts, preventing moral hazard from the guarantee.
The other was guilt by association with a substance which became the focus of an American moral anxiety.
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