(1) Along the spectrum of loyalties lie multiple loyalties and ambiguous loyalties, and the latter, if unresolved, create moral ambiguities.
(2) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(3) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
(4) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
(5) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
(6) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
(7) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(8) This paper discusses the relationship between the psychoanalytic concept of character and the moral considerations of 'character'.
(9) "This will obviously be a sensitive topic for the US administration, but partners in the transatlantic alliance must be clear on common rules of engagement in times of conflict if we are to retain any moral standing in the world," Verhofstadt said.
(10) This continuing influence of Nazi medicine raises profound questions for the epistemology and morality of medicine.
(11) But with the advantages and attractions that Scotland already has, and, more importantly, taking into account the morale boost, the sheer energisation of a whole people that would come about because we would finally have our destiny at least largely back in our own hands again – I think we could do it.
(12) But none of those calling on Obama to act carries the moral authority of Gore, who has devoted his post-political career to building a climate movement.
(13) Fleeting though it may have been (he jetted off to New York this morning and is due in Toronto on Saturday), there was a poignant reason for his appearance: he was here to play a tribute set to Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of house and one of Morales's closest friends, who died suddenly in March.
(14) The government also faced considerable international political pressure, with the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture, Juan Méndez, calling publicly on the government to "provide full redress to the victims, including fair and adequate compensation", and writing privately to David Cameron, along with two former special rapporteurs, to warn that the government's position was undermining its moral authority across the world.
(15) Father Vincent Twomey said that given the damage done by Smyth and the repercussions of his actions, "one way or another the cardinal has unfortunately lost his moral credibility".
(16) This is a moral swamp, but it's one the Salvation Army claims to be stepping into out of charity .
(17) In what appeared to be pointed criticism of increasingly firm rhetoric from Cameron on multinational tax engineering, Carr insisted tax avoidance "cannot be about morality – there are no absolutes".
(18) For an industry built on selling ersatz rebellion to teenagers, finding the moral high ground was always going to be tricky.
(19) A vigorous progressive physical and occupational therapy program producing tangible results does more for the patient's morale than any verbal encouragement could possibly do.
(20) We have a moral duty to conserve them and to educate people about their habitat, health and the threats they face."
Morass
Definition:
(n.) A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was a man who publicly stated: ‘No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical, or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep, burning hatred for the Tory party.’ In today’s political climate, where politicians are careful, tentative, scared of saying what they feel for fear of alienating a part of the electorate; where under the excuse of trying to appear electable, all parties drift into a morass of bland neutrality; and the real deals, the real values we suspect, are kept behind closed doors – is it any wonder that people feel there is very little to choose between?
(2) But Osborne’s opponents are forced to deploy a morass of statistics to demonstrate how, in fact, despite the welcome increase in the minimum wage, the hammering of in-work benefits will drive millions of workers further into hardship.
(3) And into this glorious morass, a new contradiction has recently announced itself: the white people, the privileged Americans, the ones who had the least to fear from the powers that be, the ones with the surest paths to brighter futures, the ones who are by every metric one of the most fortunate groups in the history of the world, were starting to die off in shocking numbers.
(4) Certain that they cannot get out of this morass alone, the two sides look outside.
(5) As one woman with metastatic colon cancer said on a retreat I attended, ‘Maybe I haven’t laughed enough.’” Talking at someone with cancer about what they should do, rather than being with them in a morass with no easy answers, is not you helping them.
(6) I can only see independence as backwards-looking, leading to a needless morass of complications which will leave all parts of the UK diminished.
(7) He said: “In today’s political climate, where politicians are careful, tentative, scared of saying what they feel for fear ... all political parties drift into a morass of bland neutrality and the real values we suspect are kept behind closed doors.
(8) The new show will not be able to use the Top Gear name, which is owned by the BBC, and there is a morass of legal complications around which features from the BBC2 show they can take with them.
(9) A case is described in which a multitude of consultants presented the court with a morass of parent-oriented conflicting testimony.
(10) Recently, the DOJ has been embarrassed mightily by an acidly damning PBS Frontline special that criticized it – among others – for not finding anyone worthy of prosecution in the morass of casual fraud and wrongdoing that was the credit crisis.
(11) It has taken defense secretary Chuck Hagel four months to fill the envoy position, a tacit reflection of how even the most minor aspects of shuttering Guantánamo – a position that had broad bipartisan support before Obama – have proven to be a morass.
(12) No matter that the stadium deal in Flushing, once seen as a prerequisite for a franchise to be awarded, would soon stall in the morass of New York politics, a "Mission Accomplished" banner of sorts could now be hung above the New York project and the talk could again turn to expansion.
(13) The Times and Post also ran detailed stories looking at the inescapable morass into which this war will quickly turn, along with how “success” will likely be impossible given the myriad complexities at play – including the precarious Iraqi government coalition, our supposed enemy Bashir al-Assad in Syria and the double dealing and disinterest of many of the US’s so-called allies in the region.
(14) The Institute of Public Policy’s Condition of Britain report suggests replacing some ill-understood cash benefits with public services, particularly in childcare, where – it says – state nurseries would not only be more loved, but also more efficient than under today’s morass of subsidies.
(15) Yet, despite this, the likeliest outcome remains a much messier hung parliament than in 2010, and an easier path out of the morass for Labour than the Conservatives .
(16) In Eric Kennie’s case, there is no clear way out of the morass.
(17) Gastrointestinal hemorrhage of obscure origin remains a difficult clinical problem, but newer methods of study, particularly endoscopy and angiography, have made inroads into this morass of diagnostic dilemmas.
(18) The head of Bar UK, which represents more than 80 airlines including Virgin Atlantic and British Airways, said the airport security regime had become a morass of regulations.
(19) She played Sammy, the kind, religious single mother, orphaned as a child, trying to pull her younger brother out of his emotional morass.
(20) As they sink into this economic morass, Greeks are being advised to make sure New Democracy, which wants to renegotiate the loan terms, beats leftist Syriza, which intends to discard the austerity measures .