moral guidance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmoralandguidance
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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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guidance
noun[U]
uk/ˈɡaɪ.dəns/us/ˈɡaɪ.dəns/
help and advice about how to do something or about how to deal with problems connected with your work, education, or ...
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(Definition ofmoralandguidancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We must be among the leaders of the world to whom all instinctively turn formoralguidanceon what is the proper thing to do.
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I do not accept that there is no time formoralguidancein our schools.
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Setting our expectations of attainment at appropriate levels, combined with essentialmoralguidance, enables individual children and parents to become achievers.
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In all the struggles between the various war societies there was still available independentmoralguidance and spiritual leadership, until nationalist movements usurped all authority.
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We must not say that, because the young cannot get anymoralguidancefrom it, the people who wrote it had no moral inspiration.
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The former were given for ordinarymoralguidanceand are thought to be part of general revelation.
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The result was a moral vacuum produced by the marginalization of two traditional sources of medicalmoralguidanceand authority.
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Perhaps the courts can be a source ofmoralguidancein this area.
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Considerations of autonomy alone are silent on the range of agents to whom an ethical theory should provide adequatemoralguidance.
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Themoralguidanceon offer from nature is available only to those with the correct method (careful observation) and the right attitude (sympathy).
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These collections were meant for seriousmoralguidancerather than scholarly or literary edification.
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A full explanation of facts about adequatemoralguidancerequires more than the autonomy condition, however.
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We can explain central facts about adequatemoralguidance, and their relevance to ethical theory, by appealing to certain forms of autonomy and fairness.
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The prevailing gender ideology required not only that the man protect his angel from the world but that he submit to her heavenlymoralguidance.
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Because of the need for such guidance, there was a cultural demand for moral practitioners, persons in authority to providemoralguidancefor healthcare decisions.
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A rather different type ofmoralguidancemade a lasting impression on a woman during her first week of art school, more than half a century ago.
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Similarly, an ethical theory may provide better or easiermoralguidanceto some persons than others without being unfair, so long as it provides good enough guidance to everyone.
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It seems that they receive little help ormoralguidanceon what will be the most important decision they ever make: parenthood.
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People of all ages are seeking spiritual andmoralguidance.
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If we are looking to that report for clearmoralguidanceon this matter, we simply will not find it.
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