I suppose-no, I know-that you're morally entitled to an answer, the best I can provide; but I'm afraid I can't provide a very good one.

Ms. Musser, and many others who help birth parents and adoptees find each other, believe that the laws are unjust, depriving people of basic information to which they are morally entitled.

Shakespearean audiences probably felt that Jessica was morally entitled to some of Shylock's money, in lieu of the dowry he would refuse her if she married a Christian.

I'm morally entitled to it, but I won't claim it.

Kuwait is not morally entitled to independence or the continuation of its preinvasion Constitution any more than Iraq is morally entitled to take the country over.

In his letter, Goodwin said he felt legally and morally entitled to his full pension and Myners had supported his decision to waive 15 months of his salary.

"These are not extras but benefits these men are legally and morally entitled to receive," Ms. Flower said.

When Medicare was established in 1965, it created a powerful political force - a bloc of morally entitled and economically interested voters.

Firstly, I should like to contest in the strongest possible terms the widely held and despicable misconception that a wounded man is morally entitled to surrender.