casuistry

Next day, the casuistry of politics has turned them inside out.

The casuistry had already gone beyond him; he gave up.

He must not allow them to use casuistry in the interpretation of his questions.

The Minister was engaged in nothing more or less than casuistry.

For more information on this type of reasoning, see: Casuistry.

The moral law had been covered with casuistry and hypocrisy.

Modern casuistry makes no great trouble for the believing public official.

Casuistry was for them a form of charity, an attempt to make the moral law human.

Nor did it descend to the same depths of casuistry.

I choked on the casuistry but rendered it as required of me.

As a case of casuistry, this presents many points of interest.

What are we discussing, a test case in casuistry or my personal complexity of habits?

The rest of the letters are mainly an attack on Jesuit casuistry.

Rather than using theories as starting points, casuistry begins with an examination of cases.

It took some casuistry to make this happen.

I'm no hand at casuistry, but I can't break my word to a modern pessimist.

The Bush team indulges in casuistry to perpetuate its image of political steel.

Casuistry, it is often charged, expressed and promoted the devolution.

This led the Holy See to condemn casuistry in 1666 and 1679.

Your entire argument is nothing more but pitiful Casuistry.

They consider it to border on dishonesty and casuistry of the worst kind."

As a recent study has observed: "Rhetoric and casuistry were mutual allies.

Surely Harold would not succumb to casuistry of that ilk.

Casuistry does not require practitioners to agree about ethical theories or evaluations before making policy.

Casuistry is prone to abuses wherever the analogies between cases are false.