The agency had no scruples about dealing with unsavouries like Abu Hassan Salameh, Arafat's right-hand man.
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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Greek churchmen have few scruples about stirring up feeling against Muslims, whether they be Bosnians or Kosovars.
When drafted in 1942, he overcame his pacifist scruples and joined the navy as a junior officer.
The target in "The Interpreter, " Edmund Zuwanie, is a fictional African tyrant with the scruples of Idi Amin.
They will not, however, constrain any party whose legal scruples are less powerful than its desire for chemical weapons.
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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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Because he is a man who has no scruples, no morality, no reservations about killing civilians to achieve his perverted ends.
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Men with the scruples of the off-screen President in Wag the Dog, who is caught in a scandal with an underage girl.
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.
Those who objected to the development as an affront to their Marxist scruples were quickly purged by forces under the direct control of Kim Jong-Il.
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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Years of diplomatic and economic isolation have left Myanmar under the influence of a giant northern neighbour with no scruples about doing business in the resource-rich country.
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.
These underground travel agents use the World Wide Web to act as middlemen between deathly ill patients in wealthy countries and hospitals in developing countries where ethical scruples about organ sources don't rise to Western levels.
By naming and shaming transgressors, they believe that a new norm will be created which even such countries as Russia and China, with few scruples over whom they supply arms to, will eventually be forced to take seriously.
Now with a new Democratic President and a crisis to use as a lever for a sweeping expansion of government, they aren't about to let an old warhorse with scruples about the costs of regulation interfere with their moment to govern.
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.
It was his eloquence, weighed against the scruples of conscience-bearing peaceniks, that persuaded most Labour members to support a national-unity government led by the veteran hawk who provoked the current Palestinian uprising and which includes at least two members whose views break the far-right barrier of acceptability.
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