If you preach absolute moral values, you will be held to absolute moral standards.
Indeed, he thought the end result would be higher moral standards and more common sense in Congress.
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We respect our partners but ask them to respect Russia's cultural traditions and ethical, legal and moral standards.
The former implies that companies, like people, should be held to moral standards.
By popular moral standards, this sort of discrimination would be considered objectively wrong, on the grounds that it is unfair.
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Asked about the legalisation of same-sex marriage and adoption in France, he said other countries should respect Russia's "moral standards".
Extramarital affairs aren't illegal in China, but they run counter to the party's stipulation that officials must uphold high moral standards.
The dirty cash group showed the lowest moral standards, demanding less money for unfair and harmful acts than the clean money group.
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It simply aims to be a place for men (and women, too) to come and talk openly about their lives without imposing moral standards.
If they violate the law of chastity and the moral standards of the church, then they are subject to the discipline of the church.
And in what will be a papacy guided by conservative moral standards on most issues, his past suggests that the fight against poverty will take a primary role.
While we applaud the ingenuity, the motives are certainly below traditional moral standards, but this certainly isn't the first (nor the last) criminal offense involving DAPs.
Instead, it must come from donors, who should be made to see the virtue of holding their alma maters, their children and themselves to higher academic and moral standards.
The earlier children are introduced to these teachings, he believes, the sooner they will acquire mental maturity, improved concentration and stronger moral standards, such as filial piety and respect for teachers and elders.
In the election that followed, Lincoln was trounced in the city by a Democratic opponent, Stephen Douglas, who championed a more nuanced approach to slavery that let states set moral standards of their own.
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Since conservatives constantly shout themselves hoarse about the dangers posed by moral relativism, and constantly re-iterate that they are in favor of absolute moral standards, this would seem to be a bit odd, even contradictory.
Some moral arguments about standards hide an anti-foreigner sentiment.
But, if the main objective is to draw all European countries into dialogue, that will not in practice be compatible with the maintenance of uniformly high moral and political standards for membership.
The Notre Dame fan base is a proud though sensitive lot that clearly would take offense to anyone suggesting that the Fighting Irish lower its moral and ethical standards just for the shear enhancement of pigskin glory.
Those who practice them are racist bigots who have replaced liberal values that hold everyone to the same moral and criminal standards with illiberal values that judge people's morality and criminality by the identity group with which they are most readily associated.
The American commander in Iraq is ordering his troops to get training in moral and ethical battlefield standards.
When combined with Federal Housing Administration guarantees and easy money from the Federal Reserve, mortgage lenders were induced to lower their standards in a moral surrender that spread beyond the subprime market.
Guarantees create moral hazard and foster poor lending standards.
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But he insisted the market economy was the most successful system yet devised for improving living standards, and that there was a moral imperative to create wealth.
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