moral climate

collocation in English

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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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climate
noun
uk
/ˈklaɪ.mət/us
/ˈklaɪ.mət/
the general weather conditions usually found in a ...
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(Definition ofmoralandclimatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A higher score indicates that respondents felt themoralclimatehad declined.
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However, cultural competency efforts do not guarantee amoralclimate, particularly in the face of systemic inequities and other roadblocks.
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In the degradedmoralclimateof the city, secrets were easily translatable into commodities.
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Alternatively, (and for all the talk about permissiveness and an easiermoralclimate) young women still find it embarrassing to go in search of contraceptive information.
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It is constantly at work, fashioning opinion and determining even the country'smoralclimate.
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First, there has been a fundamental change in themoralclimateof the country.
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Themoralclimatethat it breeds must be damaging to the sense of integrity of the nation as a whole.
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The wholemoralclimatetoday is a disincentive to the controls which are essential if marriages are to last.
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How it would affect themoralclimateis clear, but what about the legal and practical situation?
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The omission is due to the technical rather than to themoralclimateof the day.
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Themoralclimateof society depends upon the behaviour of good neighbours to one another.
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Themoralclimateof a society at large is the ultimate determinant of social and anti-social behaviour.
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Perhaps a small start on improving themoralclimatecan be made by recognising the underlying moral value celebrated in lifelong learning.
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We have moved into amoralclimatewhere it is tempting to call evil good.
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It is necessary that we develop amoralclimatein which we all know that all income should properly be taxed.
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We need to change the political andmoralclimate.
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First—and this is adverted to most frequently by every self-styled moralist—there is the question of themoralclimateof the community.
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I also do not agree with him in his insistence that themoralclimateto-day is so terribly bad.
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We live in a strange, mixed upmoralclimate.
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However, we are debating in amoralclimatewhich must be understood.
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