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Example sentences for "public morality"

  • In order to pile absurdity on absurdity it claims that this is done in the cause of "public morality.

  • He took the matter up to the Court of Appeal, but his petition was dismissed, the Court being of opinion that "to grant relief in such a case was not in the interest of public morality.

  • It would be idle to contend that it is of any great service to public morality in the higher sense, but is certainly of considerable advantage as a safeguard to public decency and decorum.

  • The censorship of the stage in England to-day does not pretend to be a guardian of public morality.

  • It is true that the Judiciary may abuse its power (since power is nearly always abused) by interpreting social reform, let us say, to be "opposed to public morality.

  • The right of free expression of opinion as well as the right to assemble peaceably and without arms, and to form associations or unions is guaranteed for purposes not opposed to public morality.

  • Article 9 of the Constitution protects the right of free expression of opinion, the right of free assembly, and the right of forming associations not opposed to public morality.

  • No doubt the abolition of judicial torture was at one time regarded as a mark of absurd sentimentality; and the opinion has already been expressed that a vast amelioration of public morality is in store for the new age.

  • In a perfect state of public morality he would always be doing so: and in a hundred years' time he will certainly be more often worthy of public thanks than he is now--he will be less often seeking to impose or defend a wrong.

  • I hold that the legislators of a nation are the guardians of public morality, the teachers of what is right and just.

  • I shall always lay it at the door of our legislators--that they have not only caused me to suffer many outrages, but, with those same laws, they are sapping the very life essence of public morality.

  • The German people has no subjective notion of public morality and no ethical ideal for public morality.

  • A recent German writer on the history of public morality[1657] says of the moral development of the German people that one cannot bear to contemplate it, because the people face the facts with absolute indifference.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    public acts; public breakfast; public career; public confession; public disputation; public duty; public elementary; public expense; public funeral; public institutions; public morals; public officer; public ownership; public penance; public prayer; public reception; public right; public scandal; public sentiment; public square; public subscription; public trust; publicly perform; waste time; what seems; when reduced