Nevertheless, the trials did promote a desire for a new international morality.

It could indeed be argued with some force that international morality was tending to improve slightly during this period.

Wilson's triumph was as a teacher of international morality to generations yet unborn.

I oppose taking these islands by force and fraud, for there is such a thing as international morality."

It would be absurd to make high claims for the international morality of the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Wilson, however, spoke for a genuinely new international morality:

But so sadly often they flush in embarrassment at the idea of international morality, like an atheist caught reading the Bible.

From the beginning to the end our course was straightforward and in absolute accord with the highest of standards of international morality.

Fundamental philosophical differences over human nature, international morality and the viability of socialism run too deep for a grand new consensus to emerge.

Time we practiced the international morality we preach?

Why does pointing out this double standard of international morality draw the accusation of being pro-Soviet?

"We shall strive for the total elimination of ideology from interstate relations, which does not mean that we reject international morality," Mr Skubiszewski said.

This call to serve principle and international morality is ennobling, but if no oil were at risk would we really be putting armies and navies into Arabia?

His political doctrines, based on high international morality and the respect of the law of nations, influenced many Belgian personalities such as Pierre Orts.

And so he waits for others to push him into taking the military steps to save refugee lives that NATO credibility and international morality urgently require.

But not even Grover Cleveland frightened Wild Whip Hoxworth: "To hell with his mealy-mouthed nonsense about international morality.

Every consideration of international morality and expediency, of duty to the Panama people, and of satisfaction of our own national interests and honor, bade us take immediate action.

Besides the questions of national and international morality and legality, there are serious contradictions, hypocrisy and probable dishonesty in portraying the war on Iraq as synonymous with the war on terrorism and Al Qaeda.

Extolling the reggae king Bob Marley as a messenger of "peace, brotherhood, African unity and international morality," a Federal appeals court yesterday upheld a verdict that Marley's lawyer and accountant schemed to defraud his estate of millions of dollars.

The regime of the Shah received overwhelmingly positive coverage, but that did not prevent him from charging the Western media with a "double standard for international morality: anything Marxist, no matter how bloody and base, is acceptable; the policies of a socialist, centrist, or right-wing government are not."

That until that day / The dream of lasting peace, / World citizenship / Rule of international morality / Will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, / But never attained / - Now everywhere is war - / War.

In an article titled "India, The Aggressor", The New York Times on 19 December 1961, stated "With his invasion of Goa Prime Minister Nehru has done irreparable damage to India's good name and to the principles of international morality."

Upon the conclusion of the Treaty of Versailles in early 1919, Article 227 expressly provided for the prosecution of Wilhelm "for a supreme offence against international morality and the sanctity of treaties", but Queen Wilhelmina refused to extradite him, despite appeals from the Allies.