This does not really carry with it a moral injunction: period style is not a set of rules that must be followed, but an instructive avenue.
The religious left - yes, there is such a thing - complains that Mr. Bush ignores the Bible's moral injunctions.
Through the centuries, griots have serenaded the powerful and the rich in West Africa with songs that mingle history, legends, proverbs, moral injunctions and party mandates.
(p197) They define socialism as a set of moral injunctions on poverty, inequality, and democracy.
They are moral injunctions deeply rooted in our religious traditions.
(p. 159) First, various religions make innumerable factual claims about the history of the world and how it works, and those claims are often the basis of moral injunctions.
Speaking at a conference on the protection of coastlines in Paris, she spoke of the "moral injunction" to clean up and protect the environment.
For while their contemporary Christians were drawing moral injunctions from Genesis, certain gnostic Christians seemed to be merely improvising myths on the story of Paradise.
Moreover, as one may not submit to slavery, there is a moral injunction to attempt to throw off and escape it whenever it looms.
Bloch and Parry alternately phrase this for market based societies; where universal money has been introduced, moral injunctions are introduced to prevent its use within the family.