moral crisis
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmoralandcrisis
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moral
adjective
uk/ˈmɒr.əl/us/ˈmɔːr.əl/
relating to the standards of good or bad behaviour, fairness, honesty, etc. that each person believes in, rather than ...
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crisis
noun
uk/ˈkraɪ.sɪs/us/ˈkraɪ.sɪs/
a time of great disagreement, confusion, ...
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(Definition ofmoralandcrisisfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Great changes are under way in this region in all areas of social life and under conditions of severe economic andmoralcrisis.
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For a variety of reasons, the population crisis was believed to be as much a biological andmoralcrisisas one of voluntary reproductive parsimony.
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I have been commenting on those issues since well before the recent media coverage of the allegedmoralcrisisthat we face.
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I begin by this brief reflection on the nature of the political andmoralcrisisfacing the country.
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It was said during an economic andmoralcrisissimilar to the one through which we are passing to-day.
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These things add up to amoralcrisiswith which it is our function as leaders of opinion to deal.
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It is a spiritual andmoralcrisisand must be won in the hearts of men.
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Global capitalism is headed for amoralcrisisif it transpires that the origin of the food crisis lies with stock market speculators.
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Today, we have to face up to the challenges of an economic andmoralcrisis.
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This is only part of themoralcrisisin which we are all involved.
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It is meeting amoralcrisisnot by negative proscriptions but by seeking to provide postive good for people's minds and thoughts.
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Amid our superficial prosperity, the country is close to crisis—amoralcrisis.
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As a result, apart from the financial crisis, we also have amoralcrisis.
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He reminded his readers that we in modern times are faced much more with a cultural than amoralcrisis.
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In respect of all those matters, the nation is facing amoralcrisis.
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A different kind of crisis can come over an economic system: it is not so much an economic crisis as amoralcrisis.
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What you are facing is not an economic crisis; it is amoralcrisis.
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The world is confronted with amoralcrisis.
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Secondly, there is themoralcrisis.
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Themoralcrisisin that country, a tendency to trivialise death, dehumanisation, relativism and vanishing values are to blame for the fact that this problem is not taken seriously.
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