moral restraint
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmoralandrestraint
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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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restraint
noun
uk/rɪˈstreɪnt/us/rɪˈstreɪnt/
calm and ...
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(Definition ofmoralandrestraintfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Malthusian theories (specifically "moralrestraint") were popularly characterized as irreligious and as a threat to conventional domesticity.
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The most notable change in the second edition was the introduction of "moralrestraint" as one of the checks to population.
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Malthus's emphasis on "moralrestraint" and the images of domestic misery that result from overpopulation challenged early-nineteenth-century models of domesticity.
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Children, as in much literature, circulated as moral innocents, and hence, moral weakness; the child's invocation ofmoralrestraint, "spare our precious lives," cannot check transgressive violence.
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I know there are many rebels against just law and wholesomemoralrestraintwho have masked their caprice under the name of "liberty".
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Family not only served as an economic asset, but also as a means ofmoralrestraint.
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His concept of egoistic property not only rejectsmoralrestrainton how own obtains and uses "things", but includes other people as well.
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In transaction cost economics, opportunism means self-interest seeking with guile, involving some kind of deliberate deceit and the absence ofmoralrestraint.
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His concept of egoistic property not only rejectsmoralrestrainton how one obtains and uses "things", but includes other people as well.
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Malthus held that in order to prevent widespread suffering, from famine for example, what he calledmoralrestraint(which included abstinence) was required.
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There is a need formoralrestraint.
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Many of its supporters held that feeble mindedness was of particular concern because it weakenedmoralrestraintmore than physical capability and was therefore connected with criminality, poverty and promiscuity.
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