moral sanction

I do not place my moral sanction upon a murderer's wish to kill me.

I have no moral sanction for what I do, only my share of the human experience.

A guilt complex isn't an indiscriminate supply of moral sanctions.

And it is such a departure from the norm that leads to corresponding moral sanctions.

The statement did not mention moral sanctions that some denominations hold against homosexuality and drug use.

There was no right to compound interest, which might be warranted to express a moral sanction.

The naming of relationships marks the beginnings of moral sanctions.

Today, McKinley would be charged with giving moral sanction to a racist cause.

"I think that the guidance you provide certainly strengthens the moral sanctions against obliterating some part of the archaeological record."

This simple answer seemed to throw the Moral Sanction Committee into some sort of confusion.

How many lives would have to be demonstrably saved before such intimidation and punishment achieve a kind of moral sanction?

"It is still an eye-sore and an abomination," one of the Moral Sanction men said.

Campbell argues that religion is necessary for civil order and happiness because it provides moral sanctions that political laws cannot.

They are a virulent poison, giving the numbing illusion of moral sanction to every depravity ever hatched.

They will not subscribe to a "moral sanction" that succeeds only to the extent that it makes others, not them, suffer.

Longman argues that both Catholic and Protestant churches helped to make the genocide possible by giving moral sanction to the killing.

I gave them that priceless possession which they had missed, had longed for, yet had not known they needed: a moral sanction.

State-sponsored gambling gives moral sanction and fresh impetus to bookies, numbers racketeers - and the Mafia.

Goods and services of specific types are relegated to distinct value categories, and moral sanctions are invoked to prevent exchange between spheres.

Yet I doubt that any liberal or progressive would countenance a revision that removed moral sanction from racial hatred expressed in any form.

In particular, she warned against committing any troops to Italy's conflict with Ethiopia, though she did support economic and moral sanctions against Rome.

Latterly, particularly in the US and UK, it has become very unfashionable to apply moral sanctions - to stigmatise disapproved conduct.

The Fellowship of Order ruled, through the Imperial Order, with the necessary collaboration of brutes to whom they gave moral sanction.

When one deals with irrational persons, where argument is futile, a mere "I don't agree with you" is sufficient to negate any implication of moral sanction.

But they were terribly against the judge's stated doctrine that ancient rules devised to keep blacks-in a subservient position had somehow acquired moral sanction, forever preventing their amendment.