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question and moral
Leaving aside the choice of unilateral cessation of tests as neither sane nor clearly moral, the question must arise as to why resumption of atmospheric tests on our part would not be a good choice.
There is a great deal of thought being given to the question of moral education in the schools.
She had always been able to ignore the moral question because there had been no choice.
A more specific question could be: " If someone else can make better out of his / her life than I can, is it then moral to sacrifice myself for them if needed?
The philosophical question of whether morality is absolute or relative leads to questions about the nature of evil, with views falling into one of four opposed camps: moral absolutism, amoralism, moral relativism, and moral universalism.
" This is a deep moral and political question.
This is more common when the misdemeanor is related to the privilege in question ( such as the loss of a taxi driver's license after a conviction for reckless driving ), or when the misdemeanor involves moral turpitudeand in general is evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
The question then arises: what role does reason play in motivating moral behaviour?
" It also states that political and moral debates over the integration of gays and lesbians into the mainstream of American society have obscured scientific data about changing sexual orientation " by calling into question the motives and even the character of individuals on both sides of the issue.
He answered the question of whether it could be cured in patients who were moral and determined “ mit einem runden Ja !“ (“ with a round Yes !“).
The rights in question are neither political nor moral, however, but intellectual.
The question, however, is not what we usually do, but what we ought to do, and it is difficult to see any sound moral justification for the view that distance, or community membership, makes a crucial difference to our obligations.
The rapid German advances in the opening weeks of the invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, created a mood of euphoria among the Nazi leadership, which began to take a view of the " solution " of the " Jewish question " increasingly freed from moral or ethical restraints.
I can answer the question without hesitation, bearing in mind the fact he had, as will easily be believed, the strongest possible feeling about the sanctity of treaties and international engagements, and the moral obligation to observe them ... from the moment when the Germans violated the neutrality of Belgium, he would ... have been for immediate war ".
As for the probability — to be sure that might admit some question — but I told her that in my judgment the poem had moral, and that too openly obtruded on the reader, It ought to have no more moral than the story of the merchant sitting down to eat dates by the side of a well and throwing the shells aside, and the Genii starting up and saying he must kill the merchant, because a date shell had put out the eye of the Genii's son.
Here, the relevant question is whether the action is moral or not, but more broadly whether a moral theory is correct that says morality is determined solely by an action's consequences ( See Consequentialism ).
' The tale is moral and pathetic, but the truth of it may very fairly be called in question.
The meaning of all these terms extend to all customs of proper behavior in a given society, both religious and profane, from more trivial conventional aspects of costume, etiquette or politeness-" folkways " enforced by gentle social pressure, but going beyond mere " folkways " or conventions in including moral codes and notions of justice-down to strict taboos, behavior that is unthinkable within the society in question, very commonly including incest and murder, but also the commitment of outrages specific to the individual society such as blasphemy.
In one scene, Gekko scoffs at Bud Fox's question as to the moral value of hard work, quoting the example of his ( Gekko's ) father, who worked hard his entire life and died in relative mediocrity.
Gray argues that their problem is class consciousness: the working classes can act in a vulgar way, and the upper class can be silly ; but the middle class is or at least considers itself the moral backbone of society — a notion whose validity Coward did not really want to question or jeopardise, as the middle classes were Coward's principal audience.

question and duties
In each of the ten " main meetings " ( kuriai ekklesiai ) a year, the question was explicitly raised in the assembly agenda: were the office holders carrying out their duties correctly?
He wrote, " The question both of our right and our power to prevent it, if necessary, by force, already obtrudes itself upon our councils, and the administration is called upon, in the performance of its duties to the nation, at least to use all the means with the competency to guard against and forfend it.
Under German law, a violation of these duties by a managing director will not affect the validity of a contract with a third party, but the GmbH may hold the managing director in question liable for damages.
The Martin-Robertson ministry had involved itself in a petty squabble with the colony of Victoria over a question of border duties, and Parkes effectively threw ridicule on the proceedings.
Lyrical duties are split between all three band members, usually with the person who wrote the lyrics singing the song in question.
A somewhat different view was expressed by John Roemer who used the term nondiscrimination principle to mean that " all individuals who possess the attributes relevant for the performance of the duties of the position in question be included in the pool of eligible candidates, and that an individual's possible occupancy of the position be judged only with respect to those relevant attributes.
Her duties are to deliver highlights and to question analysts about sports topics.
In effect, this banned the practice by which younger sons of noble families would be appointed to a bishopric or other high church position and live off of its revenues without even moving to the region in question and taking up the duties of the office.
Although initial BBC reports claimed that, under French law, it was illegal even to mention the conviction, the prohibition in question only applies to French officials in the course of their duties.
When McGuinness was sacked in December 1970, Busby briefly returned to his managerial duties, but there was never any question of his returning as manager permanently.
Countervailing duties in the U. S. are assessed by the International Trade Administration of the U. S. Department of Commerce which determines whether imports in question are being subsidized and, if so, by how much.
This culminated in 1994 when Bryce faced an HREOC hearing after being accused of discriminating against Proudfoot – and ended when the commission found in Bryce's favour and dismissed the complaint, stating that the behaviour in question " did not reflect on the way Ms Bryce discharged her duties ".
Away from his duties he was known to be quite sociable ; and within the parliamentary party ; few bore him ill. A major faultline lay over the question of introducing protective tariffs on imports as a prelude to negotiating a customs union within the British Empire.
In East Asian and Western traditional families, fathers were the heads of the families, which meant that his duties included providing financial support and making critical decisions, some of which must have been obeyed without question by the rest of the family members.
In East Asian and Western traditional families, fathers are the heads of the families, which means that their duties include providing financial support and making critical decisions, some of which must be obeyed without question by the rest of the family members.

question and towards
However, other observers ( like Minxin Pei ) question whether these steps are genuine efforts towards democratic reform or disingenuous measures by the CPC to retain power.
Some scholars question whether Frege's negative review of the Philosophy of Arithmetic helped turn Husserl towards Platonism, but he had already discovered the work of Bernhard Bolzano independently around 1890 / 91 and explicitly mentioned Bernard Bolzano, Gottfried Leibniz and Hermann Lotze as inspirations for his newer position.
During the 1980s, the question of Jersey making an annual contribution towards the United Kingdom's costs of defence and international representation undertaken on behalf of Jersey was raised.
Attitudes of both towards different Protestant groups vary, primarily based upon how strongly Trinitarian the Protestant group in question might be.
Thus we placed our energies at the disposal of the revolution, of the proletariat and its struggles, and defined our attitude towards the colonial problem, and hence towards the colour question.
Edmund of Kent had sided with Isabella in 1326, but had since begun to question his decision and was edging back towards Edward II, his half-brother.
In the same poll, on the question of the PRC government's attitude towards the ROC government, 64. 85 % of the respondents consider the PRC government hostile or very hostile, 24. 89 consider the PRC government friendly or very friendly, while 10. 27 % did not express an opinion.
On the question of the PRC government's attitude towards the people in Taiwan, 45. 98 % of the respondents consider the PRC government hostile or very hostile, 39. 6 % consider the PRC government friendly or very friendly, while 14. 43 % did not express an opinion.
There was the question of opening a second front to alleviate the German pressure on the Red Army, the question of mutual assistance – where both Britain and Russia were looking towards the United States for credit and material support and there was ceaseless tension between the United States and Britain since Washington had no desire to prop-up the British Empire in the event of an Allied Victory.
ka turns a statement into a question, while the other sentence-final particles express the speaker's attitude towards the statement.
Paramount among these is the question of solitude versus loneliness, as embodied by Bemis's moment of near-suicide ; the portrayal of societal attitudes towards books also speaks to the contemporary decline of traditional literature and how, given enough time, reading may become a relic of the past.
The struggle between church and state continued into the spring of 1101, when Baldwin had Dagobert suspended by a papal legate, while later in the year the two disagreed on the question of the contribution to be made by the patriarch towards the defence of the Holy Land.
Lynch's attitude towards the Northern Ireland question and the application of Fianna Fáil party policy to it would eventually come to define his first period as Taoiseach, and would once again show his critics that far from being " reluctant " he was in fact a strong and decisive leader.
Grattan supported the government for a time after 1782, and spoke and voted for the repressive legislation that followed the Whiteboy violence in 1785 ; but as the years passed without Pitt's personal favour towards parliamentary reform resulting in legislation, he gravitated towards the opposition, agitated for commutation of tithes in Ireland, and supported the Whigs on the regency question in 1788.
It is probable that the hesitation of the French court on this question was one of the causes of the enduring personal hostility Palmerston showed towards the French King thereafter, though that sentiment may well have arisen earlier.
As the National Party increased repression in response to increased black pressure and radicalism throughout the 1950s, the ANC, previously committed to non-violence, turned towards the question of force.
* Hostility – Hostility towards the group in question increases, and they become " folk devils ".
Ranta stated that "... medicolegal investigations as scientific analysis of bodies cannot give a conclusive answer to the question whether there was fact a battle the police and insurgents ...", but she leaned towards the victims being non-combatants in part because "... no ammunition was found in the pockets " of the bodies she investigated.
As the colonies moved towards their break with England, perhaps one of the most important discussions of American culture and identity came from the French immigrant J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, whose Letters from an American Farmer addresses the question what is an American by moving between praise for the opportunities and peace offered in the new society and recognition that the solid life of the farmer must rest uneasily between the oppressive aspects of the urban life ( with its luxuries built on slavery ) and the lawless aspects of the frontier, where the lack of social structures leads to the loss of civilized living.
Hachette also manifested great interest in the formation of mutual friendly societies among the working classes, in the establishment of benevolent institutions, and in other questions relating to the amelioration of the poor, on which subjects he wrote various pamphlets ; and he lent the weight of his influence towards a just settlement of the question of international literary copyright.
An elegant and ( despite its subtitle ) not particularly frivolous fiction in the manner of W. H. Mallock's The New Republic, in which the guests at a country-house party find all their conversations turning towards the question: what are the ultimate sanctions, social, intellectual, supernatural, which determine man's behaviour and destiny?

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