The transformation of a culture is slow, arduous work, requiring material support as well as moral and intellectual renewal.

Professor Sandel makes the case for a moral and civic renewal in democratic politics.

The militants promise moral renewal and efficient government in an Islamic state.

It can be good, that is, if it provides the basis of personal accountability and moral renewal, he said.

The King also said the tragedy "must become an occasion for moral renewal and for profound change in the country."

"Our first priority is to bring values back and give them pride of place in our moral and economic renewal," he said.

For the recovery that Britain must pursue in 2012 is not just economic: we need a moral renewal, too.

In a tribute read tonight on Soviet television, Communist Party leaders and cultural figures said his craftsmanship "affirmed the moral renewal of mankind."

Perhaps we are no longer looking for moral renewal in the won-lost column, finding it instead in religion and politics.

It is not only financial aid and the much-praised market economy that are needed, but above all moral renewal and ethical principles.