Example sentences of "moral and political [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His willingness to prostitute himself to the worst instincts of the electorate makes Neil Kinnock look like a beacon of moral and political rectitude . |
| 2 | There we have infinite moral and political problems . |
| 3 | Crime is a moral and political category . |
| 4 | From the time he left New York , Michael Joyce regarded his United States citizenship as a moral and political incubus . |
| 5 | The communiqué also called for increased support for the Palestinian intifada in the Israeli-occupied territories , and for material , moral and political assistance for the reconstruction of Lebanon . |
| 6 | Integrity therefore fuses citizens ' moral and political lives : it asks the good citizen , deciding how to treat his neighbour when their interests conflict , to interpret the common scheme of justice to which they are both committed just in virtue of citizenship . |
| 7 | RELIGIOUS , MORAL AND POLITICAL EDUCATION |
| 8 | As repulsive as this junking of the UN Charter is the moral and political hypocrisy of the US and its allies . |
| 9 | Permitting management to use their discretion to run a company for the public benefit may be tantamount to encouraging them to run it according to their own moral and political views about what constitutes the public benefit . |
| 10 | The result , however , would be the same : the strength of the principle of interpretation , in effect denying the statute any application at all , would reflect the scale of the affront to the moral and political values we accept as fundamental … |
| 11 | How to win a vicious guerrilla war without compromising the moral and political values that France claimed to represent ? |
| 12 | Even if we believed that the public interest could perhaps be equated with goals supported by a broad social consensus so that the spectre of management indulging its own personal moral and political preferences under the guise of pursuing socially worthwhile goals no longer haunted us difficulties would still remain . |
| 13 | Yet Nizan is insistent that ideology and aesthetics are not necessarily mutually exclusive provided that the problem of their unification is viewed dialectically : that is to say , provided that literature is not perceived as a static object but the site of a dialectical process involving writer and reader in a moral and political adventure . |
| 14 | The rhetoric was still aggressively populist but suddenly ‘ hippy social workers ’ and ‘ machiavellian middle class communists ’ began to figure alongside ‘ twisted nazis ’ as the enemy who seek to make moral and political capital out of ‘ authentic ’ working class youth . |
| 15 | Dicey thus identifies the growth in power of the party machine as the source of the problem : ‘ Coalitions , log-rolling , and parliamentary intrigue are in England diminishing the moral and political faith in the House of Commons . ’ |
| 16 | It does not reject morality , or even moral and political rights . |
| 17 | The need for metropolitan government intervention of a swift and direct kind and its ideological justification were contained in this moral and political marginalisation of the West Indians . |
| 18 | A ruling class enjoys hegemony if it is capable of exercising moral and political leadership , thereby achieving the consent of the masses . |
| 19 | The Government is ostensibly looking to Parliament to confer not just statutory enactment of what it negotiated at Maastricht , but moral and political assent . |
| 20 | It is precisely because prisoners are shut away , lacking legal , moral and political respectability , held at the mercy of , and dependent on the goodwill of , the State , that a case can be made for vesting special positive rights in prisoners . |
| 21 | All it required was the moral and political will , and control of the physical means . |
| 22 | In contrast to this robust concern for liberal ideals in the classical rules , modern developments in the law of contracts rest upon uncertain and doubtful moral and political principles . |
| 23 | Two highly respected writers and commentators have recently supported the Gulf war project as a moral and political necessity : Hans Magnus Enzensberger , the poet and critic , and Fred Halliday , Professor of International Relations at the LSE and a noted authority on Middle Eastern politics . |
| 24 | Comte 's view of the arts was primarily an instrumental one ; they were to be harnessed to , and take inspiration from , the new scientific , moral and political order he proposed . |
| 25 | Ambivalence poses the crucial problem of enforcement for regulatory agencies and their field staffs , because their authority is not secured on a perceived moral and political consensus about the ills they seek to control . |
| 26 | And consequently their history consisted of events and lives which carried moral and political precept : of incidents loaded with an interpretation . |
| 27 | It confronts a range of moral and political issues arising from this relationship , and acquaints students with the various arguments , theories , principles and concepts which help to explain and evaluate these issues . |
| 28 | The momentum engendered by the moral and political appeal of ‘ a family for every child ’ was very strong . |
| 29 | The nature , and application , of the legal rules that define crime , together with the moral and political debate that their consideration inevitably involves , is as important for correctionalism as for any other criminological enterprise . |
| 30 | There are moral and political implications that follow on such a stance . |