moral behaviour
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmoralandbehaviour
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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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behaviour
noun
uk/bɪˈheɪ.vjər/us/bɪˈheɪ.vjɚ/
the way that ...
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(Definition ofmoralandbehaviourfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The selling of the goods provided income and ostensibly coincided withmoralbehaviour.
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Impairment of social andmoralbehaviourrelated to early damage in human prefrontal cortex.
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Thus, teaching respect andmoralbehaviourthrough pension sharing becomes an undertaking with almost political overtones.
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In this discussion, he assumes that the main motive tomoralbehaviouris our desire for the approval of others.
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The close link between these andmoralbehaviouris clear.
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Vernacular literature was to limit itself tomoralbehaviourand to the teaching of proper religious practices, especially the sacraments, and first and foremost confession.
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Moralbehaviourwill often mean promoting some kind of order, but actors may still have to make choices between different sorts of order.
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Such a fix would greatly reduce the significance ofmoralbehaviourin this life, contrary to a key presupposition of the system.
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But he worries about the implications of this for the stability ofmoralbehaviourin a fameoriented society and invokes some considerations designed to allay that concern.
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Althoughmoralbehaviouris not a matter of fame, it may still attract esteem and it may still be supported by people's desire to be esteemed.
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True religious belief, deeply wedded tomoralbehaviour, makes the subject fun.
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It affects their moral outlook, theirmoralbehaviourand their conduct in general.
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I know that there have been frequent complaints about the degeneration ofmoralbehaviour.
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It is not right to accept different standards ofmoralbehaviourbecause of environmental circumstances.
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It does not considermoralbehaviour, effects or anything like that.
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Some even tell us how we should think, and some dictate ourmoralbehaviour.
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You simply cannot takemoralbehaviourfor granted and it needs redefining, re-exploring and nurturing again and again.
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There is a philosophical distinction between themoralbehaviourof individuals and the behaviour of social groups.
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Policies are designed to influencemoralbehaviourwhere it is in the national interest that they should do so.
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Currently, for instance, demands are being made for strictmoralbehaviouron the part of public figures.
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Notably, early, often religious-based, notions of honour and honourable behaviour were reproduced under liberal, anti-clerical governments in the nineteenth century as codes formoralbehaviourand honourable reputation.
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Thus,moralbehaviouris sustained by the value of reputation, which in turn depends on there being a network of associations, so that contraventions of morality become generally known.
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These are the very real problems we are setting before youth when we relax our laws governing social obligations and standards ofmoralbehaviour.
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It is all the more difficult, therefore, to control them, because we cannot appeal to a generally accepted and honoured code ofmoralbehaviour.
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