moral standard
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmoralandstandard
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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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standard
noun
uk/ˈstæn.dəd/us/ˈstæn.dɚd/
a level ...
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(Definition ofmoralandstandardfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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If social institutions fail by the external moral standards of justice, they must be revised even if they excel by any other externalmoralstandard.
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A society that claims to have amoralstandardhas the obligation to provide adequate care for its members.
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In the first example, discrimination is assessed in relation to amoralstandard.
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The problem with this doublemoralstandardis how it impacts the vulnerable population, especially poor women and teenagers.
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Thus, the law can incorporate amoralstandardrelating to promise keeping, but only by formal promulgation that has the appropriate social pedigree.
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Cultural competency is an antidote to both cultural imperialism (alleging superiority of some cultures over others) and moral relativism (asserting no universalmoralstandard).
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When the courts fail to be just, they fail by their own internalmoralstandard.
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Armed with only amoralstandard, such as distributive justice or "fair" rent, people may be unable to make correct judgments because they do not have enough economic facts.
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On his view, insofar as a judge sincerely attempts to decide a case according to somemoralstandard, her decision-making process cannot be characterized as unconstrained.
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The cases are interesting because each involved a statute whose purpose was claimed, at least in part, to be to enforce some type ofmoralstandard.
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Obligation refers to a social claim on private agents to act properly - a normative imperative that may be defined by law but could be just amoralstandard.
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So, if themoralstandardis viewed as exemplary, but in a way that is free from blame and guilt, would this be damaging and harmful?
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It was a horrible idea and, in his private opinion, work in which no one with amoralstandardshould be asked to engage.
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In our democracies we want a very much highermoralstandardas well.
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It is a moral disease, and there is only one way in which you can protect the children; that is by a singlemoralstandard.
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So long as you have one law for men and another for women an equalmoralstandardis quite impossible to attain.
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How can we raise themoralstandardof the people, themoralstandardthat is really the greatest of all safeguards against delinquency and crime?
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We have to raise themoralstandardof the people.
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That is a most serious injury to themoralstandardof the country.
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It is to be born into a society with a very highmoralstandard.
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