Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called Tela Declaration was a gesture that carried all the moral authority of the region's leaders but none of the military force that might be needed to make it stick. Its realization hinges on the "voluntary" cooperation of the contras and assigns responsibility for implementation to the United Nations and the Organization of American States...
...Shaw's heroes are men of moral passion." (English...
...passage in which he fritters away critical and popular esteem while pursuing the good life in Paris, the Riviera and, above all, Klosters, the Swiss ski resort that ^ he and the beautiful, occasionally talented people he drew to him made famous. The ending even produces the kind of Faustian moral that goes down well in popular fiction: the hero achieves a full measure of worldly success but at the cost of his artistic soul...
...United States military, like to see themselves as somehow above the dirty business of terrorism. A prime example of this attitude is the U.S. condemnation of the recent Israeli abduction of Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid, the leader of one of the Lebanese extremist groups holding Westerners hostage. Such a moral stance, while fine in a vacuum, fails to take the reality of the situation into consideration...
...hand we have Moral Reasoning. This year, for the first time in recent memory, a class will be offered on Confucian thought. Clearly, this is a step in the right direction, given that every other Moral Reasoning course is very white, overwhelmingly male and extremely dead...