moral condemnation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmoralandcondemnation
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moral
adjective
uk/ˈmɒr.əl/us/ˈmɔːr.əl/
relating to the standards of good or bad behaviour, fairness, honesty, etc. that each person believes in, rather than ...
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condemnation
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌkɒn.dəmˈneɪ.ʃən/us/ˌkɑːn.dəmˈneɪ.ʃən/
the act of condemning something ...
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(Definition ofmoralandcondemnationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The final (missing) step is the premise that the criminal law is just a vehicle formoralcondemnation.
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In contrast, seriously intendedmoralcondemnationraises the ante and if it is accepted it retains its power to shock.
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This is not because of lack of interest or absence ofmoralcondemnation, quite the contrary.
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Finally, the overall strategy followed was one of institutionalized de-confrontation in which the mediators coupledmoralcondemnationof the wrongdoers with appeals to compromise for the sake of social harmony.
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Explicitmoralcondemnationis perilous and should properly be felt to be so.
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It is there thatmoralcondemnationis passed, and it is only at that point, clearly, that any question of criminal procedure can possibly arise.
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There is a greater concern with what we are trying to achieve, but there is a strong element of simple indignation, of puremoralcondemnation.
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There may be some regimes that are impervious to themoralcondemnationof the international community, even given the most stringent methods of implementation.
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We need to ensure that there ismoralcondemnationof the concept of drinking and driving.
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That is a form of ex-communication, and ex-communication implies somemoralcondemnationof the nation concerned.
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The danger seems to me that out of this welter ofmoralcondemnation, the natural reaction of many people is entirely negative.
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There is not necessarily any greatmoralcondemnationabout these matters, but the fact is that if people do them habitually, they will cause accidents.
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Moralcondemnationby the peoples of the world would, he thought, provide a most effective means of control.
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Other offences of the character of malicious damage may involve an element of seriousmoralcondemnation.
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The truth is that when public opinion, world opinion, is sufficiently strong and unanimous to pronounce a firmmoralcondemnation, sanctions are not needed.
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This is no sort ofmoralcondemnation, because there are masses of things to do —housing, roads, schools, hospitals—and there will be many more things to do.
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Its final stanza is amoralcondemnationof worldly decadence, but the tone of the whole is unfailingly courtly.
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The statement included both a rejection of a scientific basis for theories of racial hierarchies and amoralcondemnationof racism.
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