"They appear to upset your moral balance, but there's no point in them going to waste."

There is that robustness, for instance, so often the sign of good moral balance.

No mere mortal could be put beside Jesus on a moral balance scale.

Now that he had lost his steady moral balance, and had caught the infection of my enthusiasm, I loved him better than ever.

It's time to bring a moral balance to Mars, and show them what an individual stands for, and what our rights really mean.

As far as I can see, that tips the moral balance heavily onto the side of the angels."

As his men worked quietly around him, he looked inward, searching for the moral balance that guided so much of his actions.

If we refuse to lift a finger to defend Bosnia, at least the sanctions slightly redress the moral balance.

"I beg to suggest this exchange is no tawdry bargain, but a just restoration of a moral balance.

Haidt has also described the liberal emphasis on care as "one foundation morality", contrasting with the conservative moral balance.

As Miss Lewis suggests, the compulsion to acquire vast amounts of money has pushed the American social and moral balance out of tilt.

"It All Starts Today" strikes a difficult and necessary moral balance, refusing to succumb to hopelessness but also refusing to rule it out.

The moral balance between the Ancients and the Ori clearly echoes that of the Goa'uld and the Tok'ra.

This is a crude moment, but otherwise the filmmakers succeed in finding an appropriate and tricky moral balance as they take sides in a fight between two dictatorships.

In philosophy the concept of moral balance exists in various forms, one of them is the golden mean, which has virtue being between the extreme and the lacking.

Isabelle Huppert's performance is mesmerizingly icy and exquisitely precise, and the director uses her brilliantly heartless characterization to strike a delicate moral balance.

When we feel threatened by enemies and/or criminals, we have little problem striking a moral balance on the leeway granted to the police and the military in these areas.

Considering the unredeemed malevolence of Big Tobacco, as the story's four leading companies are called, one wonders how Mr. Grisham will sustain any moral balance in his plot.

Yes, though my own view is that patriotism has been so ridiculed and has been so out of fashion that spiritual and moral balance require an emphasis on patriotism as a good thing.

When the exploiter goes beyond what is regarded as moral, the exploited feel that they have the right to take steps to reestablish the moral balance, and these steps sometimes involve riots and revolt.

The framers were tough-minded practical men who respected religion for the moral balance it con- tributes to society, but the structure of govern- ment they devised was pragmatic rather than religious, and it worked.

Mr. Chow's mission as hero becomes not one of capturing the thieves but of working for both the police and the thieves to create a new moral balance, which itself is shot to pieces by the film's end.

She or he would short-circuit the shows' delicate moral balances, in which love, death, art and family are suitable subjects, but not "She disgusts me" or - the ever-popular adolescent version - "I disgust myself."

But Three just looked at me--stared, really, as if he had seen the Mogrund itself, a phantasmal creature from Cardassian myth that occasionally returns from the spirit world to correct the moral balance of our world.

The concept has a beguiling simplicity, and the movie's thesis is that the rippling out of what a popular bumper sticker calls "random, senseless acts of kindness" might tip the world's moral balance and make it a better place.