moral dilemma
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmoralanddilemma
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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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dilemma
noun[C]
uk/daɪˈlem.ə/us/daɪˈlem.ə/
a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two different things you ...
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(Definition ofmoralanddilemmafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The wish that grandparents had that their adult children would re-partner could lead them into anothermoraldilemma.
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Let us begin by asking what a person facing amoraldilemmaought to do.
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Perspectives billing practices, this could be a realmoraldilemma.
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It only says that the person facing amoraldilemmais not faced with a logical problem, whatever else he faces.
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A genuinemoraldilemmawas identified during the ethical evaluation of screening for fetal abnormalities.
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When the new financial villains become aware of their self-deceit, theirmoraldilemmaplays out larger problems of the magicality of paper fictions.
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To put those questions into stark relief, let us consider anothermoraldilemma, again involving an invasion decision.
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These children also were able to struggle with alternative outcomes to resolve amoraldilemma.
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Amoraldilemmais created if a high-risk patient seems to be willing to accept the risk of a bad outcome and presses for transplant.
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The case where prescriptive predicates cannot be obeyed leads to amoraldilemma.
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That's the heart of themoraldilemmahere.
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How exactly does this help us with our original inconsistency, the one that we had before we embedded the conflict of rights in amoraldilemma?
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Shaw's acting excluded any melodramatic manifestations of 'suffering', thus emphasizing the character'smoraldilemmaand tragic circumstances.
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I thus faced an unusualmoraldilemma.
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Appeals to liberty and equality, led in part by slaveholders, brought into political focus the relationship between the individual and the state and themoraldilemmaof slavery.
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Slim then examines the question of who is to blame for amoraldilemma, arguing that moral responsibility lies with who creates a certain bad state of affairs.
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Animal testing is a highly controversial and emotional area which does involve amoraldilemma.
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Let us be perfectly straightforward and honest: this new clause presents us with a practical andmoraldilemma.
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Thismoraldilemmahas led me into the most awful difficulties.
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