But Sherron Watkins was a different story: In the moral sense, an unimpeachable witness, Watkins took the stand in March, claiming that she'd warned Lay and other top execs of impending problems at the firm.
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David Sloan Wilson, of Binghamton University, in New York state, agrees with that point, but reckons the actual moral sense an individual acquires is not arbitrary, as a language is, but is functionally adapted to circumstances.
In the spirit that moved rescue workers and firefighters to charge into darkness and danger that September morning, we see the same sense of moral responsibility that drove countless Americans to give of themselves in the months that followed.
Although he maintains his innocence, Odeh has admitted to the FBI that he felt a moral sense of responsibility for the Kenya bombing because he belonged to al Qaeda, the Islamic militant organization run by bin Laden.
People are willing to obey morals that make sense to them - the "moral relativism" deplored by some traditionalist Christians - and are also proving willing to compose a sense of the religion itself that makes sense to them.
Much opposition to the ivory trade is grounded in a moral sense that it is wrong to trade in elephants even though doing so is the best means of preserving the species.
If we are a nation of promise breakers who borrows with no sense of the moral imperative to repay, our IOUs become worthless.
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As rich countries become more health-conscious, it makes both business sense and moral sense for the tobacco industry to defend its activities on the grounds of some such liberal balancing of freedom and restraint.
Money usually wins, leaving the reader with a comfortable sense of moral rectitude, and an uncomfortable sense that he might be a lot richer if he had been a little more ruthless.
Professor DON KETTL (Political Science, University of Pennsylvania): The sense of hypocrisy of an argument in favor of moral values and then not living up to them in the minds of many voters, but just as important a sense that the Republican leadership was at best asleep at the switch, and at worst complicit in an effort to cover this up for sometime.
Her character leapt off the page: impetuous, pugnacious, fiercely intelligent and irreverent, with an indomitable sense of humour, moral passion and integrity that would never desert her throughout the ordeal that awaited her.
The moral, then, is that people's sense of right and wrong influences the way they feel and behave.
Indeed, he thought the end result would be higher moral standards and more common sense in Congress.
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Quite apart from a sense of moral and religious affinity for the Jewish people's struggle to survive in their ancient homeland, most of us recognize that it is in the United States' strategic interest to stand with Israel.
Instead of overwhelming fear or paralyzing self-doubt, the attacks were met with defiance, unity and a sense of moral purpose.
Psychologists in this area explore our moral sense, looking at how it is instantiated in the brain, how it develops in children, and how it evolved.
" As Eunice said at one point, Special Olympics teaches "that all human beings are created equal in the sense that each has the capacity and a hunger for moral excellence, for courage, for friendship and for love.
Any trade advantages a nation might temporarily receive from the devaluation drug are overwhelmed by the repercussions -- domestic inflation, higher interest rates and the social and political consequences that erupt when a societys sense of moral order is disrupted.
We need to believe that people have a sense of duty born of moral and ethical principle rather than the law.
On the one hand, he epitomized the dogged militancy which has given that tradition its distinctive sense of righteousness and moral passion.
So even though the Constitution favors religious practices over merely moral preferences, constitutional law and American common sense approve of defending shared lifestyle commitments and convictions.
This has created an oligopoly that lulls users of their ratings into a false sense of security and spreads moral hazard: investors tend to rely on the ratings rather than making credit judgments of their own.
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An unshakable sense of one's own moral authority makes it easier to rationalize wrongful actions in the interest of preserving tenuous political and cultural authority.
That sense of connection, that sense of empathy, that moral compass, that conviction of what is right is what led the National Association of Evangelicals to shoot short films to help people grasp the challenges facing immigrants.
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