Instead of overwhelming fear or paralyzing self-doubt, the attacks were met with defiance, unity and a sense of moral purpose.
Quite apart from a sense of moral and religious affinity for the Jewish people's struggle to survive in their ancient homeland, most of us recognize that it is in the United States' strategic interest to stand with Israel.
Money usually wins, leaving the reader with a comfortable sense of moral rectitude, and an uncomfortable sense that he might be a lot richer if he had been a little more ruthless.
Family life, as Hoggart understood, thus provides a basis for a form of social responsibility that extends beyond contractual rights and obligations to a sense of shared moral and affective commitments.
Any trade advantages a nation might temporarily receive from the devaluation drug are overwhelmed by the repercussions -- domestic inflation, higher interest rates and the social and political consequences that erupt when a societys sense of moral order is disrupted.
That'll cause confusion for a president whose sense of moral clarity doesn't always appreciate ambiguity.
This has created an oligopoly that lulls users of their ratings into a false sense of security and spreads moral hazard: investors tend to rely on the ratings rather than making credit judgments of their own.
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We need to believe that people have a sense of duty born of moral and ethical principle rather than the law.
Although he maintains his innocence, Odeh has admitted to the FBI that he felt a moral sense of responsibility for the Kenya bombing because he belonged to al Qaeda, the Islamic militant organization run by bin Laden.
Nine out of 10 cited high moral character, pleasant personality, a sense of humor and intelligence.
It means that, in a moral sense, all of our fates are bound together.
Surely our sophisticated European friends would appreciate our sense of Realpolitik in ensuring that they don't make a moral hazard of our guarantee of their security.
Introspection and imagination might have been foreign to him, but he had his own moral code and a strong sense of purpose.
There is a sense of dismay in these films, a pervasive moral revulsion that we haven't felt in American cinema since the Watergate era.
If we are a nation of promise breakers who borrows with no sense of the moral imperative to repay, our IOUs become worthless.
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In that sense, not only is forgiveness of underwater mortgages a "moral hazard, " it's also cruel policy by the government for weighing on our individual ability to chase the best economic opportunities irrespective of locale.
This is the most dangerous of all these illusions, because it treads on moral grounds and arguably lulls citizens and hence public opinion into a sense of heightened righteousness and false security.
Much opposition to the ivory trade is grounded in a moral sense that it is wrong to trade in elephants even though doing so is the best means of preserving the species.
People are willing to obey morals that make sense to them - the "moral relativism" deplored by some traditionalist Christians - and are also proving willing to compose a sense of the religion itself that makes sense to them.
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