Indeed, Warburg placed as much emphasis on moral standing as he did on capital or connections.
Who in the world today has the moral standing and the practical ability to take meaningful action?
For the U.S., the appropriate rhetoric is that of Islam itself, pronounced by faithful Muslims with sufficient moral standing.
The greatest damage to the jihadis' moral standing has been wrought not by the global offensive but by their own brutality.
Prince Charles and Princess Diana, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan all improved their moral standing by appearing in public beside her.
But animals have real moral standing, and they're a real responsibility once you've let one into your life, and you can't so casually think about killing a dog.
Historians will likely judge the putative intelligence gains made by abusive interrogation techniques were easily outweighed by the damage they caused to the United States' moral standing.
Add to that a situation where the cooperation is in the context of an unfair persecution of a friend, and the moral standing of the cooperator becomes even lower.
To date, Obama's stewardship of US foreign policy has been marked by gross naivete, incompetence and a marked willingness to demean and weaken his country's moral standing in the world.
Guantanamo has absolutely destroyed America's moral standing in the world and made it easier for terrorists to recruit disenfranchised people to target what they view as the evil and hypocritical America.
Workers are forced to work solely for the sake of a profit (in many but not all cases) because they have no voice through which they can express their moral standing.
Guantanamo Bay also threatens to create new enemies of the state and diminish the country's moral standing in the world, Obama said, revisiting a campaign promise he made before his first term.
Benedict became pope at the height of the molestation scandal involving Catholic priests, with complaints of sexual abuse and lawsuits over the issue tearing at the church and threatening its moral standing around the world.
For example, under Rand's schema would a person who abandons some passion in order to look after an elderly parent have a higher or lower moral standing than someone who doesn't (assuming that the parents are equally worthy)?
They can either say a woman has the right to make a reasonable choice about what to do or say the government has the right to regulate her uterus because an embryo has the same moral standing as any child.
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But moral clarity and America's standing in the world demand that the burden of proof be on those who can find no alternative to torture.
It's going to be increasingly destructive of our resources, our abilities, our standing in the world, our view as a moral and decent democracy.
The moral thrust of doctor-assisted suicide is the equivalent of telling someone standing on the edge of a bridge or building to jump.
And otherwise moral men and women simply ignore evil when they believe their interests are best served by not standing up to it.
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