They imply that lawyers' objections are motivated by self-preservation as much as by ethical scruples.
One problem with reporting on an opaque country such as Russia is that journalistic scruples can backfire.
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When drafted in 1942, he overcame his pacifist scruples and joined the navy as a junior officer.
He and his scruples didn't sit well with plenty of pols and contractors.
"It would make porous distribution mechanisms and our dependence on the moral scruples of the bureaucrats redundant, " he says.
The steel raja's scruples are rather more quixotic: the coalescence of the industry.
The voiceover then explains that law enforcement seemed to have had no such scruples when it came to Spitzer himself.
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Never mind that the secret fund-raiser video or the paparazzi snapshots were done by individuals who likely have the scruples of a Doberman Pinscher.
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Clooney, looking a little haggard, gives a lovely performance as a smart man who has a few too many scruples to be a winner.
"She is a woman of few moral scruples, " Miss Etherton said.
He's trying to stay one step ahead of the landlords and bill collectors, so, at first, you think Murray is just a loser schmuck with no scruples.
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This would be followed by sage lamentations about how a "Christianist" military had indicted a patriotic Muslim-American simply for having religious scruples about the justice of our wars.
That's too much for Otho, who isn't completely without scruples.
At such moments, the reader starts developing a few scruples of his own, one of which is: a passage like this is neither good fiction nor meaningful historical writing.
That judgment is too kind to the ECB, which could afford to have scruples about the medium term because other central banks were taking more care of the present.
Here was a woman with scruples less developed than her own, someone who had chosen to be not frightened but entertained by her new neighborhood, someone who soldiered on with her elective surgery even when her best friend got a diagnosis of cancer.
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