private morality
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprivateandmorality
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private
adjective
uk/ˈpraɪ.vət/us/ˈpraɪ.vət/
only for one person or group and not ...
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morality
noun
uk/məˈræl.ə.ti/us/məˈræl.ə.t̬i/
a set of personal or social standards for good or bad behaviour ...
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(Definition ofprivateandmoralityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Furthermore, individual liberation andprivatemoralityare not mutually exclusive ideals.
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But nevertheless, we think it may have blinded us to the different way it works inprivatemorality.
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In doing so, it identified a sphere ofprivatemoralityand immorality that is, as was claimed in the report, not the law's business.
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I am sorry that public morality is so far belowprivatemorality.
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Unless it means that an examination is to take place intoprivatemorality, it is meaningless.
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It has been that we are legislating for social conditions and notprivatemorality.
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This is a difference between public andprivatemoralitywhich cannot be ignored.
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One must always take into account the difference betweenprivatemoralityand public morality.
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I do not accept that this is merely a matter ofprivatemorality.
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The worst that could happen would be for questions ofprivatemoralityto be the subject of party controversy.
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First, this is a debate about the public interest and not about our private values andprivatemorality.
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It is public recognition that, as inflation is theft, state morality is quite as important asprivatemorality.
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You shade the difference between breaking the law and twisting the law and you shade the difference between public andprivatemorality.
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It should be self-evident that the criminal law should have no role in matters ofprivatemoralitywhere consenting adults are concerned.
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If it means anything, it means apparently that there is to be an inquest into theprivatemoralityof people who take public office.
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Its consideration leads us straight away into very difficult discussions about the relationships between the law and what is calledprivatemorality.
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One of the first things they are told is to urge upon them thatprivatemoralityand public morality should be on the same footing.
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It finally came down with an argument which it regarded as crucial—namely, the freedom of choice which society ought to give in matters ofprivatemorality.
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It was the decisive authority in matters of public andprivatemoralityand the government would turn to it to obtain civil servants when laymen were not available.
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