Now some monks are using their moral authority to serve a quite different end.
Moral authority entails a moral hazard: the temptation to abuse political and cultural power.
This gave him the moral authority throughout our company that no mere title can ever bestow.
Consequently, in 1960 the KGB decided to wage a campaign to destroy its moral authority.
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"If we launch a pre-emptive strike, we will lose all moral authority, " he told the crowd.
The Fellowship works inside the halo of moral authority of the only authentic Biblical Samaritans.
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But the moral authority of the man and his method kept its hold on the masses.
With his credibility crumbling, says Mr Margalit, he has no more moral authority to lead.
Possibly Mr Lieberman is right in arguing that the president can reclaim his moral authority.
Now it uses its campaign in Gaza as a means of winning back its moral authority.
His moral authority continues to dictate the path we should take towards peace and development.
The U.S.-Cuba deal isn't the first time Francis has used his moral authority to try to broker international truces.
At all other times the minister for culture, Pramod Navalkar, is the reigning moral authority in Maharashtra.
Representative CHRISTOPHER SHAYS (Republican, Connecticut): I happen to believe we're losing our moral authority to lead this place.
Like Jim Michaels, Peale was a small man with a rock-quarry voice and the moral authority of Moses.
It shows us how political authority can be justified but only by accepting that moral authority limits it.
What about U.S. moral authority to dissuade other goverments from meddling in their markets or indulging industrial policy?
"A country like that has no moral authority to judge generals and political officials in Venezuela, " he said.
Although the president remains the country's most valuable human asset, his moral authority is not what it was.
The most prominent is Johannes Rau, who, as Germany's president, is the highest moral authority in the land.
"A country like that has no moral authority to judge generals and political officials in Venezuela, " Maduro said.
Marxists co-opted the moral authority of the Civil Rights movement propelling what later became political correctness to prominence.
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It gives you moral authority when you think or talk about an issue.
The president's advisers say that the moral authority bestowed by his popular mandate should help bring parliament into line.
Or was he more more directly culpable, as the leader who had final legal and moral authority in Japan?
He said that what stood out was Obama's "strength, moral authority and wisdom".
Indeed, the report's findings claw at the heart of Mr Kagame's moral authority.
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He is using the moral authority of his re-election to push his case.
His ability of mobilizing the masses was due more to his moral authority than to the understanding of his proposals.
There is also no question that Guantanamo set back the moral authority that is America's strongest currency in the world.
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