I.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a moral code
▪ Children acquire their parents’ moral code.
a moral conscience (=an idea of what is right and wrong)
▪ At what age do children develop a moral conscience?
a moral duty
▪ She felt it was her moral duty to treat everyone equally.
a moral evil (=a bad thing in relation to principles of what is right and wrong)
▪ Mental or physical torture is a moral evil, and it can never be justified.
a moral judgment (=based on what you think is right)
▪ People are always making moral judgments about weight loss.
a moral objection
▪ He has expressed moral objections to this type of research.
a moral vacuum (=a lack of moral standards)
▪ Many children are growing up in a moral vacuum.
a moral victory (=when you show your beliefs are right, even if you lose the argument)
▪ The victims’ families claimed the verdict as a moral victory.
a moral/ethical dimension
▪ The book discusses the ethical dimension involved in genetic engineering.
a moral/ethical question (=one relating to principles of what is right and wrong)
▪ This area of medical research poses serious ethical questions that doctors alone cannot answer.
a moral/ethical/political etc dilemma
▪ Doctors face a moral dilemma over how long to prolong someone's life.
a moral/legal/social obligation
▪ We have a moral obligation to take care of our environment.
high moral principles
▪ a man of high moral principles
moral corruption
▪ Some people see television as a cause of moral corruption in young people.
moral courage (=the courage to do the right thing)
▪ He said his faith gave him the moral courage to survive his ordeal.
moral high ground
▪ Neither side in this conflict can claim the moral high ground.
moral imperative
▪ Sharing food is the most important moral imperative in Semai society.
moral majority
▪ Smokers today are often made to feel like social outcasts by the moral majority.
moral outrage
▪ a sense of moral outrage
moral principles
▪ Criminal law should be used to protect and reinforce moral principles.
moral scruples
▪ a man with no moral scruples
moral turpitude
▪ laziness and moral turpitude
moral values
▪ She had her own set of moral values.
on moral/legal/medical etc grounds
▪ The proposal was rejected on environmental grounds.
sb's moral/ethical outlook (=beliefs about what is right and wrong)
▪ Their ethical and moral outlook concerning terrorism is the complete opposite of mine.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
authority
▪ Although delays were mitigated and judicial efficiency improved, the courts continued to exercise little moral authority.
▪ He wielded real moral authority, to my eye.
▪ But we have to admit that Mr Clinton has preserved much more moral authority and effectiveness in office than ever seemed possible.
▪ When she stood, though, she projected physical power and moral authority.
▪ Sincere spirit and moral authority count, not quick and easy money.
▪ In 1945 Rhee possessed moral authority and commanded deep respect, even among those antagonistic to his conservatism.
▪ The one thing he takes seriously is Buddhism: this anchors his fiery imagination, giving it a species of moral authority.
▪ I recognize no human moral authority outside my existential self.
career
▪ Then one's moral career as an adult begins.
▪ For the women this involved a distinct moral career.
▪ But there are good reasons for examining how self-realisation and moral careers are developed within civil society.
▪ Goffman has described how institutions offer individuals a framework for a moral career.
▪ Underlying the behaviour of an apparently undifferentiated and chaotic mass of hooligans are distinct rules and moral careers.
▪ Such knowledge and classification represents subjugation of the rest of the population, and the regularisation and standardisation of moral careers.
▪ Here Jock is recounting a moment in his moral career.
claim
▪ A national election victory gives a stronger moral claim to rule than a local election.
code
▪ She emphasised the status of housework as a moral code rather than a logical practice.
▪ Luther is, after all, true to his own weird moral code.
▪ He will not voluntarily do anything which conflicts with his personal moral code, nor can he be induced to do so.
▪ The comedia lacrimosa champions a new moral code founded on friendship, tolerance, humanity and charity.
▪ This is fairly obvious with a relatively abstract form such as a moral code.
▪ His parents, he knew, had followed a simpler moral code.
▪ Anyway the moral code prevents him from taking her back whether he wants to or not.
▪ Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code....
dilemma
▪ His moral dilemmas now appear in novels such as Schindler's Ark, his 1982 Booker prizewinner.
▪ Snipes gives a brilliant performance as a man caught in a moral dilemma.
▪ Different moral considerations might apply for different people in the face of similar moral dilemmas.
▪ When a clinical situation poses a genuine moral dilemma, by definition no right answer exists.
▪ The boy presented me with a moral dilemma.
▪ There are plenty of moral dilemmas.
▪ It takes no account of the moral dilemmas of human life.
▪ Dante wrote that the hottest room in hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral dilemma.
duty
▪ The duty to compensate the defamed person is itself a moral duty.
▪ Though not under a legal liability to maintain his illegitimate child, the father is under a moral duty to do so.
▪ One person might consider it his moral duty to fight and another to desist from fighting.
▪ No violation of moral duty is involved.
▪ And the same may be said of most other merely moral duties.
▪ It manipulates the environment, and it is able to enforce moral duties on those who are inclined to disregard them.
▪ In their view serving the state was the highest moral duty and no state had external obligations.
education
▪ Traditionally it has meant some form of moral education to encourage pupils to develop attitudes of cooperation and concern for justice.
▪ It abhors all violence and relies upon moral education, love and sympathy to secure human progress.
▪ Many other themes concerned with moral education could be given.
▪ As both emphasize, moral education can not proceed effectively in an economically unjust society.
▪ The attempt to use the theatre for purposes of moral education, still practised in Schiller's time, was soon discredited.
▪ Bradwell also claimed that the issue highlighted conflicting rights of parents and school over the moral education of the children.
fibre
▪ But now I shall leave you with one final anecdote which impinges on both issues of morale and moral fibre.
▪ Even when he was trying to be a criminal, the low moral fibre shone through.
▪ The Zeitgeist has proved more powerful than her own undoubted moral fibre and the historical influence of her own Church and family.
▪ Some people believe that the effect of the Zeitgeist is invariably to weaken moral fibre and signal the downfall of the nation.
▪ The problem does not arise merely through lack of moral fibre.
▪ It isn't just lack of moral fibre which leads to a rising divorce rate.
ground
▪ Even the most loyal officials found it increasingly difficult to defend serfdom on moral grounds.
▪ The argument on moral grounds is not so easy.
▪ Lehman Brothers, the investment banking firm handling the sale, went to Harvester and objected on simple moral grounds.
▪ Many providers remove groups on moral grounds, or to avoid controversy.
▪ Having gained the high moral ground, I was reluctant to quit it right away.
imperative
▪ None the less, the moral imperatives that are intrinsic to the student role will always reassert themselves.
▪ Are moral imperatives stronger than political power?
▪ If we proceed from prudential to moral imperatives, will the conditions of the choice be fundamentally changed?
▪ But it is also a moral imperative.
▪ Sometimes there's a moral imperative and you feel everything building up behind you that you have to do it.
▪ If there are no absolutes or eternal values, then the moral imperative behind such movements evaporates into thin air.
▪ That the moral imperative was not a sufficient condition has already been remarked upon.
▪ Ending discrimination against older consumers may be regarded as a moral imperative, but it also makes sound economic sense.
issue
▪ There's a difference between moralising and opening up moral issues.
▪ Teachers can engage students, even at the preschool level, in discussions of moral issues.
▪ But they do have a gut feeling that abortion is a moral issue.
▪ He favored letting the moral issues be resolved by communities governing themselves at the local level.
▪ But he's not prepared to compromise on what he regards as a moral issue.
▪ Despite the term, it is not a moral issue, it is simply a question of economic incentives.
▪ Nor a question of manners, or a moral issue concerned with how those who serve the public behave.
▪ Part of the reason our poverty keeps growing is related to the economy, and part of it is a moral issue.
law
▪ It is not that I have no reason to submit to the moral law and can do as I please.
▪ But the moral law of the Old Testament retains eternal validity.
▪ This moral law includes the ten commandments.
▪ The moral law had been covered with casuistry and hypocrisy.
▪ Kant answers the first questions by contending that we can not strictly speaking know that there is such a moral law.
▪ Most people agree that the moral law protects the weak.
objection
▪ Aides had denied she had any moral objections but said she had longstanding private engagements to fulfil.
▪ He knew the sort of people he was addressing and he knew the sort of moral objections they found most satisfying.
▪ We make a big show of our moral objections, but what really puts us off are the technical ones.
▪ There were moral objections to children being blown out of sleep to death on a filthy street.
▪ Apart from any moral objections, researchers are scared that they will be deprived of fame and fortune by military secrecy.
▪ There were moral objections to house lizards being senselessly butchered by madmen.
▪ This is quite apart from any moral objections that might arise.
▪ And moral objections to people spending their lives shooting scag.
obligation
▪ Poor rates mounted, and many magistrates and overseers continued their moral obligations but in a spirit of growing hopelessness.
▪ If evolution has hard-wired into us a belief that there are objective moral obligations, then we will believe that there are.
▪ After all, you're under no moral obligation to them.
▪ But what would transform it from an externally enforced to a moral obligation?
▪ It is much easier to bury a problem than to consider whether our moral obligation lies elsewhere.
▪ First, do states in fact have moral obligations?
▪ They have a moral obligation to build a path.
order
▪ Law bolstered the moral order of society and judges, as custodians of those values, were deserving of respect and trust.
▪ The imposed moral order held precedence over the claims of both truth and love.
▪ More particularly, different aspects and different consequences of this previous moral order are identified.
▪ Historically, however, such facts are now in question; hence, the moral orders, too, that they support.
▪ One stresses that a rational and moral order can be created from a universally valid set of moral principles.
▪ When individual desires go beyond the moral order then people become dissatisfied with life and social cohesion begins to break down.
▪ Industrial societies can not be run by an absolute moral order-the final imposition of righteousness on earth.
▪ The other main strand in nineteenth-century feminism accepted the idea of women as the natural guardians of the moral order.
outrage
▪ Whatever the topic under discussion, they automatically began with some resentful expression of moral outrage.
▪ However, such public condemnation and the associated moral outrage can, on occasions, be strangely muted.
▪ Regional officers had lived for many years with successive waves of moral outrage about the scandalous conditions within the asylums.
▪ Media reports of child abuse cases often express this sense of moral outrage.
▪ And moral outrage at the use of simple expedients can still run high.
panic
▪ Acid House comes a close second to football fans in the tabloids' top ten of moral panics.
▪ This has led to the creation of a moral panic on campuses.
▪ Indeed notions of moral indignation, moral panic or moral conflict are not used in this perspective at all.
▪ Societies appear subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic.
philosophy
▪ Kant Kant's moral philosophy is sharply opposed to the moral sense approach of Hutcheson and Hume.
▪ Smith began to teach logic and moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow.
▪ Any verdict we pass on punishment must be soundly based on an acceptable general moral philosophy.
▪ He had just been appointed professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow.
▪ It is plain from all of this how moral philosophy is taken to depend on natural philosophy.
▪ I am surprised that he did not cite as evidence in support of his case the moral philosophy of his own Monklands District Council.
▪ Of course, not everyone is well versed in moral philosophy.
▪ Both theories are exercises in analytical moral philosophy which aspire to provide rational principles to support particular conceptions of just social arrangements.
principle
▪ A sanitary code which sought to evade fundamental moral principles could never ultimately succeed.
▪ Two, can you come up with some moral principle, some ethical issue that is so important it justifies deception?
▪ One stresses that a rational and moral order can be created from a universally valid set of moral principles.
▪ They would rather get beaten on their moral principles and convictions than be corrupted by political deals.
▪ To some there may be occasion to place a moral principle above a legal one.
▪ By the mid-nineties, many adolescents had no answer when asked what moral principles might apply to a particular circumstance.
▪ I do not think that we should be against such moral principles.
▪ There is no single moral principle which is sole and supreme and can never conflict with any other.
problem
▪ They see it as a scientific rather than a moral problem.
▪ It certainly is not the most important moral problem that betrays our honor and diminishes our possibilities for self-esteem.
▪ The feminist response to abortion as a moral problem has been ambivalent.
▪ Almost immediately the new coalition began to question the criminal law approach to moral problems.
▪ The applied ethics strand is represented by a unit concerned with moral problems relating to conflict between persons, groups and societies.
▪ It is essentially a technical rather than a moral problem.
▪ Yet even with this verdict, moral problems still remain.
▪ Sitting furtively with my contraband, I ruminated on whether addiction itself is considered the moral problem.
question
▪ I think that soaps and crime series are two of the few arenas where moral questions are debated.
▪ But those are moral questions as well as psychological questions.
▪ It is a moral question at root.
▪ Ed gave his typical response to a loaded moral question.
▪ The basic anti-abortion argument boils down to a moral question.
▪ Whether a particular accused should be acquitted because his conduct was not dishonest appears to me to be a moral question.
responsibility
▪ Put briefly, there developed an idea of the pervasive religious and moral responsibility of the ruler.
▪ These ties bear hardest on those who tend to accept moral responsibility for caring roles.
▪ This meant that man has an inescapable moral responsibility for his own actions.
▪ The real priority was a greater stress on moral responsibility in the education of the sons of the upper class.
▪ Philosophers and psychologists alike have eroded all our old assumptions of free will and moral responsibility.
▪ We are interested now in the question of moral responsibility.
▪ The company accepted moral responsibility for the disaster, but claimed that the plant was sabotaged by a disgruntled employee.
▪ Will he exercise influence on the Soviet Union to accept its moral responsibility?
right
▪ I have heard of chaps being accused of asserting their conjugal rights, but asserting moral rights is obviously something else.
▪ He is willing to fight for his social and moral rights.
▪ In like manner the suffrage of women prior to 1918 was a claimed moral right.
▪ This led several members of the Congress to question the Assembly's moral right to initiate political reforms.
▪ The penal system wields power over its subjects, but its moral right to do so has been coming under strong attack.
▪ Theyconvince themselves that they have some moral right to their victim's coin collection.
▪ The new Act also covers moral rights.
sense
▪ Individuals, except in an ultimate moral sense, are unequal. 6.
▪ Are we free to modify Our moral sense by rational reflection and conscious goal-setting or not?
▪ Kant Kant's moral philosophy is sharply opposed to the moral sense approach of Hutcheson and Hume.
▪ She treated her crisis as a literary event; she lost her moral sense, her judgment, her power to distinguish.
▪ One loses one's moral sense when lust becomes dominant.
▪ Only a theory that is completely certain should be allowed to undermine this moral sense.
▪ My moral sense has been dulled by too many years here.
▪ Enabling people not just to keep alert but to feel they are still learning and growing makes economic as well as moral sense.
standard
▪ Stone also emphasizes the extent to which women accepted the double moral standard.
▪ He feared that in the absence of moral standards, workers could be abused and exploited.
▪ Religions frequently fail to live up to their high moral standards.
▪ He has dumped several party members for violating his personal moral standards.
▪ The need to survive, which always dictates the moral standards of society, once more underlined the role of the women.
▪ High moral standards and all that.
▪ The central concern for all these groups is with what they perceive to be declining moral standards.
▪ By the moral standards of some of the bargainers the claims of some of the others may be immoral.
superiority
▪ Pip now falls into a snobbish habit of connecting high social status with moral superiority.
▪ Underlying this hostility was a profound belief in the ethical and moral superiority of collective welfare provision.
▪ Serving large helpings, I ate nothing myself and my abstinence was only another proof of my moral superiority.
▪ Pleasure will be an adult privilege, a mark of economic power, class status and moral superiority.
▪ In one area, however, she does come into her own, since she has spiritual strength and moral superiority.
▪ Of Canon Wheeler's moral superiority to herself she was unconvinced.
▪ The preservationists, pinning their faith to moral superiority and persuasive argument, were beaten back every time.
support
▪ Voice over Finally, Dawn came here, where she's been given practical and moral support.
▪ When a baby is newborn, friends, family, and even strangers deluge us with moral support and advice.
▪ I don't believe Wellington stayed to give De Gaulle moral support.
▪ I want you there not just for moral support but to have a witness present.
▪ He can also make a point of talking to Mr Yeltsin and other republican leaders to offer them moral support.
▪ Last year they gave heavy financial and moral support to Democrats.
▪ The frontiersman heroes such as Davy Crockett no longer excite our moral support.
▪ Mahdi denies that his movement wants weapons or financing from Washington, saying moral support and diplomatic pressure are enough.
turpitude
▪ This would lead to a graph of illegalities graded according to moral turpitude.
▪ This was long before Eastern Airlines fired him for moral turpitude and for making false claims about a medical background.
▪ There may be no moral turpitude or manipulation as such.
▪ It kept them from moral turpitude. 21.
vacuum
▪ Nevertheless the discretion is not to be exercised in a moral vacuum.
▪ There is no satisfying solution to the moral vacuum that is created when one human being murders another.
▪ In both cases the result of improvement is a dehumanized landscape and something like a moral vacuum.
▪ Young people from welfare-dependent single-parent families just aren't artful dodgers ready to graduate into serious crime and a moral vacuum.
value
▪ As are the author's stern moral values that are reflected on page after page of the novel.
▪ They include judgment and moral values.
▪ In another case, though, they lose all moral value and lead only to bookkeeping and arguing.
▪ Speechwriters are not expected to have the same moral values as other people in political life.
▪ They have always been unseemly, since they make a mockery of the moral values they purport to uphold.
▪ Eight percent said a decline in moral values worried them the most.
▪ Their moral values are a bit intolerant, too.
▪ If they are to last over time, moral values must contribute to successful human survival.
victory
▪ Although it saved them substantial costs, these cases were not exactly searing moral victories for the healthcare plans.
▪ Those are the kinds of moral victories that eluded them in Game 1.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
custodian of tradition/moral values etc
mental/intellectual/moral gymnastics
▪ I changed into my running clothes and did three miles while I went through the mental gymnastics of getting the case organized.
▪ None the less, great feats of mental gymnastics were per-formed to make them into atmospheric phenomena.
take the (moral) high road
▪ Daley has taken the high road in his campaign, trying to ignore Merriam's attacks.
▪ Instead, I decided to take the high road.
▪ Read in studio Still to come on Central News, taking the high road.
▪ She was at least making the attempt to take the high road, only to run into a dead end.
the moral majority
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ As moral people, we cannot accept that so many children grow up in poverty.
▪ Everything that he writes has a high moral purpose.
▪ Parents are responsible for giving their children moral guidance.
▪ The company is managed according to strict moral and ethical principles.
▪ They live according to a deeply held moral code.
▪ We follow the moral laws laid down by our religion.
▪ Women have a moral right to work without being sexually harassed.
▪ You have a moral obligation to help your sister's children.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But as in the 1830s their participation involved a reworking of moral discourse.
▪ Eight percent said a decline in moral values worried them the most.
▪ He cautioned, however, that the broadcaster tries to be a moral educator rather than an objective news presence.
▪ It is also true that moral reasoning does not ensure consistent moral behavior.
▪ They see it as a scientific rather than a moral problem.
▪ This is involved in becoming aware of oneself as a self-conscious moral agent.
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
loose
▪ Within Mr Quinn's own party, there will doubtless be those with looser morals than Mr Ashdown's.
public
▪ The concern of the prosecution in 1960 was with the corruption of public morals.
■ VERB
draw
▪ But: less fastidious ministers in future may draw the corporatist moral.
▪ I shall now draw some general morals from this sketch of the structure of Peirce's philosophical thought.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ There was a lot of public debate about the morality of the invasion.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But this putatively happy ending holds no morals for Cal.
▪ So feel free to fill your children with lessons and morals from this story.
▪ Stricter morals also were more widely accepted in those days.
▪ The moral is simple: do not let up until the time-up bell sounds.
▪ The doctor, whatever her politics and morals, had lovely skilful hands, which Phoebe could not but admire.
▪ These beautiful new books, filled with morals and happy endings, help us hold on to our storytelling heritage.
▪ Warning rather than exhortation to virtue is the style of the fabliau morals.
▪ We repudiated entirely customary morals, conventions and traditional wisdom.