moral commitment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmoralandcommitment
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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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commitment
noun
uk/kəˈmɪt.mənt/us/kəˈmɪt.mənt/
a promise or firm decision to ...
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(Definition ofmoralandcommitmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Normative theories of multiculturalism, on the other hand, are instructive because they have grappled with themoralcommitmentof recuperative identity politics.
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These kinds of reasons are encapsulated interest,moralcommitment, and commitment from character.
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Two of these -moralcommitmentand character - are dispositional reasons, and the other - encapsulated interest - is a reason from interests.
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In other words, "sacredness" won't be intelligible in the naturalist ontological worldview, and so the worldview and themoralcommitmentwill be inconsistent.
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Only three specific examples are offered, and these only as vehicles to engage the moral imagination andmoralcommitmentof our hypothetical leaders.
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Their understanding would be seriously incomplete, of course, but theirmoralcommitmentmight still be perfectly sincere.
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Tragedy, which, by challenging certitudes, required themoralcommitmentof liberal writers, became, in this context, anachronistic.
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The answer is that his most fundamentalmoralcommitmentis to the 'free development of individuality' as 'one of the leading essentials of well-being'.
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Weak as the narrative of compassion andmoralcommitmentmay be, it is infinitely stronger than it was only fifty years ago.
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Better education will reinforce amoralcommitmentto patients' rights, equal access to healthcare, quality of care, solidarity, and protection of vulnerable populations, as well as promote general well-being.
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Effective action to improve the quality of governance, and thus of economic performance, can come only from a variety of factors that include a widespreadmoralcommitmentto this goal.
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I agree that my country has failed in its specialmoralcommitment.
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It is not just a political commitment, but amoralcommitment.
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It is both a specific and amoralcommitment.
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It is designed to turn what has been described as a specific andmoralcommitmentinto a specific, moral and legal commitment.
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Having, therefore, made amoralcommitmentin loose legislative form, it was financially impossible for them to fulfil their commitment.
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But what we can do here is to accept the fact that we have a totalmoralcommitmentin this matter.
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We are looking for a fair middle way, with a broadmoralcommitmentto civic improvement.
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But when boys qualified, they had amoralcommitmentand nothing more to serve the industry for two years.
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