Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Closing out the weekend, his match provided a moral victory around which the team can now rally. The two schools meet again at EIWA's in several weeks and next time, Adeniyi-Bada and his Quaker team might not be so lucky...
Tobin maintains that our society should discount religious belief in favor of "legal argument or moral reversal." I presume that since the death penalty is legal in the state of Missouri, Tobin does not mean that the governor should have invoked a law as justification for the commuation of Mease's sentence. Instead, I can only assume that she meant that the death penalty should be repealed in Missouri. As long as the First Amendment exists, I suggest that any point of view (even religious) could be used in such a "legal argument"--a debate...
...sounding like just another humble fixer with friends at the top. White House counsel Nicole Seligman called the technique "context," and it poked enough holes in the managers' tapestry for the 44 Democrats who already voted for dismissal to get a good night's sleep. (Isn't there a moral in the fact that, on several occasions, the two sides used the same clips?) His trial may still have a week to go, but the President -- whom 70 percent of Americans are eager to let off the hook -- already knows no moving van will come for him this year...
...admirable. But the Pope also opposes abortion and is at best weak in his support of the rights of women and gays. Gov. Carnahan made the wrong decision as a politician when he allowed himself to be influenced by a religious leader instead of by legal argument or genuine moral reversal. As a country, we'll be making the wrong decision if we allow the trend shown in the Princeton poll to continue. Church and state are separated with good reason--and women should know that better than anyone...
...Virtue, who has come to complain about the indignities she has had to suffer in the world below. Between them sits Mercury, a finger to his lips, telling her, in effect, to shut up and back off: Jupiter is too busy painting to worry, for the time being, about moral issues...