(Some cases, however, particularly those involving moral offenses like drinking and gambling, were initiated by the grand jury of its own accord.)

In a time when the range of moral offenses has shrunk considerably, the covenant has become an especially permissive license.

One of The Todd's patients is a 16-year-old girl getting breast implants, and Turk takes moral offense to this.

But he clearly felt what many Americans felt as well-that dogfighting was a moral offense of a different order.

What is a moral offense?

Our great constitutional precedents mark impeachment as a remedy for political, not moral, offenses of the first importance.

Chrysler's moral offense was in thinking it was all right to hide the facts and pretend the cars were undriven.

But the secretary's ultimate moral offense is her claim that our interrogations have saved innocent European lives.

I thought first about the blood, then realized the circumstances-birth-and rated the moral offense zero.