Some people blame the politicians, claiming that the scandal over their expenses undermined public morality.
Since it is an indicator of public morality, or economic success, it is less important in a foreign-policy election.
Besides, Mr Santorum's thinking on public morality highlights a division in his party.
Although such sinful baths were the exception, bureaucrats of the time fretted that sento posed a threat to public morality.
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Most importantly, he managed the peaceful transition from a pretty bleak Communist state towards a reasonably functioning democracy, elevating public morality not to mention political worldliness to the Czech political agenda.
But then this modern, Western store would probably not have been sanctioned by the powerful religious authorities without involving the religious police to check that public morality was being upheld.
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Many people would like to require the accountants to be watchdogs of public and business morality.
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Imraan Hosany, the editor of the Mauritian Sunday Times, is charged with outrage against public and religious morality.
The paper's editor Imraan Hosany was later arrested and charged with outrage to public and religious morality for publishing the photographs.
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"The prosecution does not call any witness to support the charge of outrage against public and religious morality, " he told the court.
Although there has been little public discussion of the morality of suicide, philosophers have always been fascinated by the subject.
If a public debate about the morality of suicide were to develop out of the euthanasia debate, how might it proceed?
Although pressing ahead with reforms started by his right-wing predecessor (revamping the health service, streamlining the armed forces, promoting morality in public life, and so on), he has so far come up with few of his own.
Christians are often pilloried for imposing private morality on the public.
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The public debate focused on the morality of cloning whole animals, and so it conjured up sci-fi images of a society in which everyone has identical faces, and cloned bodies are grown in vats.
When he was elected less than a year ago, he promised voters a government that would promote morality and integrity in public life.
He had promised voters morality and integrity in public life after what were nicknamed the "bling-bling" years of his conservative predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy.
By disassociating morality from actions, a person can wholeheartedly support the public figure without being subject to self-reproach.
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Like most governments that try and restrict public access to the internet, Pakistan is doing so on the grounds of decency, morality, and an effort to stamp out blasphemy.
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