Mr. Trump's behavior isn't governed by moral standards; he doesn't seem to believe objective moral standards even exist.
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He told me that a decade ago the drug market's moral standards were low, but that it still had moral standards.
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They also indicate trust and adherence to high moral standards.
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Legal standards, however, are not the same as moral standards.
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"Servants' libraries" endeavored to instill moral standards in the lower classes.
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They were very good people, with high moral standards — but very repressed.
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High ethical and moral standards to win the battle of ideas, but no.
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It's ahistoric to judge figures from the past by our own moral standards.
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"The Buckley-era establishment self-confidently enforced intellectual and moral standards," Brooks writes.
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"This behavior is unacceptable and contradicts our moral standards," Syverud said in the statement.
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"This behavior is unacceptable and contradicts our moral standards," he said in a statement.
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And Superman, whose inhumanly high moral standards got him into some very human problems.
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"Judeo-Christian moral standards are the ultimate utilitarian rules for human conduct," he said.
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"She is a woman of absolutely scrupulous moral standards," says her old friend, Pasternak Slater.
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It drives people crazy that conservatives and liberals are often held to different moral standards.
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"By moral standards, he was a self-righteous landfill of angry garbage," Mr. Colbert added.
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But most Chinese people, with their current moral standards, would still be unable to accept it.
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And bring around people who are decent and have some form of moral standards, you know?
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But he said Clinton lost ground to Trump on questions that measure moral standards and honesty.
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America was, and must once again be, a serious nation responsible, ultimately, for setting global moral standards.
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Clinton is viewed as being more ready to be president, being smarter and having higher moral standards.
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He wrote books on morality and virtue and what he viewed as declining moral standards in America.
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"Find an accountability person with integrity and high moral standards who also values relationships over success," Ferretti said.
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"It's easy to say we shouldn't judge figures from the past by the moral standards of today," says Bell.
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They've all earned a few demerits, after all, and popes are known to have almost impossibly high moral standards.
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Second, Trump and the other populists have overturned the traditional moral standards for how leaders are supposed to behave.
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" On relations with the U.S.: "We share the same values and moral standards and we share the same interests.
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Film is a repository of societal beliefs — it authenticates experience, archives cultural memories, and suggests aesthetic and moral standards.
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To them, these people can't be expected to adhere to Western moral standards, especially since those standards are fundamentally flawed.
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We would not be at the mercy of Facebook and Google's shifting moral standards if they were not virtual monopolies.
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One solution is to agree upon a set of steadfast moral standards that are independent of short-term market considerations.
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It's clear that Facebook's adherence to a rules-based, reactive formula for assessing speech sets few if any meaningful moral standards.
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I tormented myself for compromising my moral standards, for failing to do my duty as a son, a brother a friend.
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We cannot help watching, but our regular consumption of the details of a lascivious man risks eroding our own moral standards.
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Brooks's contention that the early GOP "enforced moral standards" only makes sense if you exclude anti-racism as a moral value.
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The Lanham Act empowers bureaucrats to approve of marks "aligned with conventional moral standards" and to reject "those provoking offense and condemnation".
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"The takeaway for 125 years now is the church favors a market economy but one that operates within moral standards," he said.
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WeWork's cofounder Adam Neumann said tech firms needed to "agree on a certain level of moral standards" when quizzed about Saudi Arabia.
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It was once the useful role of conservatives to resist these sorts of trends — to stand athwart declining moral standards, yelling Stop.
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On MetroNews 'Talkline,' Manchin called Kavanaugh 'a very fine person of high moral standards' with a lot of career judicial opinions to review.
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Not only did Evenson refuse to be kowtowed by someone else's interpretation of moral standards, he did not take the admonishment lying down.
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The government convicted and imprisoned people on charges of apostasy, blasphemy, violating Islamic values and moral standards, insulting Islam, black magic and sorcery.
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The rich achieve their dreams and the poor often don't, many lacking the educational ammunition to achieve and the moral standards to succeed.
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"It doesn't matter what he does, they don't expect him to conduct himself by the same moral standards that bind ordinary people," Hermann said.
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Only by electing virtuous leaders with high moral standards dedicated to the public good can confidence in self-government fulfill the promise of 1776.
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In this book, I was also trying to look at not just physical-attractiveness standards — we're also expected to uphold much higher moral standards.
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"The moral standards of the Church did not change with the recent release of the General Handbook or the updated Honor Code," Johnson wrote.
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The Navy, insisting that it has a responsibility to maintain professional and moral standards, is forging ahead to remove Chief Gallagher from the unit.
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Elite has employed thousands of people over the past 21 years, insists on the highest moral standards from our employees and regrets this isolated incident.
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As Steinem honors Watson's high moral standards and relentless activism, I ask her if there's a risk of becoming, well, annoying to the general public.
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But by denying women autonomy over their bodies and sexual choices, they often ended up dehumanizing women who didn't live up to their moral standards.
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When Brebeuf defied the Archdiocese's demand, I thought of the "grad at grad" moral standards that Brebeuf is living out and which the Archdiocese sorely lacks.
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Long before I had personal reasons to cherish Yeats's "A Prayer for My Daughter," I marveled at the poem's balancing of tenderness, judgment and moral standards.
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AL GREEN, D-TEXAS: This president has made insightful statements that are hurtful and harmful to this country and to our moral standards in the world.
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"Were we to use my moral standards, the line for calling people and words racist in this country would have been crossed decades ago," he writes.
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Clinton is viewed by voters as being smarter and having higher "moral standards," while Mr. Trump is seen as being a better leader and more inspiring.
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Principles of a just war have been derived from classical and religious scholarship and form the basis for present day international law and contemporary moral standards.
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All students, when enrolling in the university, agree to moral standards of conduct, and agree that the standard is a condition for remaining at the university.
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God's moral standards are absolute, and all the sins Sodom and Gomorrah were committing, like blowjobs and mixing fabrics, are still going down all the time!
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"It's unfair to project the moral standards of today onto those earlier generations," said Robert W. Hasbrouck, 85, a ninth-generation descendant of an original settler.
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"IDF troops, our children, adhere to high moral standards as they bravely fight blood-thirsty murderers in tough operational circumstances," he told his cabinet in broadcast remarks.
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Too many times throughout our history we have failed to uphold the highest moral standards, and too many times we have looked back on those decisions with shame.
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Here are three examples of stories deemed to be "untrue" by the Chinese Government, according to the NYT: • The decay of moral standards in villages in northeastern China.
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Even if China were to open its borders though, it remains unclear how U.S. companies could faithfully apply the law of China while maintaining their own moral standards.
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Only about a third of those polled said Moore, a former district attorney, former Alabama state Supreme Court justice, and strong proponent of Christianity, has higher moral standards.
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Since the Hippocratic oath, physicians have also sought to act professionally, to follow very high moral standards and respect privacy and confidentiality, partly to gain and preserve patients' trust.
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Those photos were later sent to the local news media, after which supporters of a petition to remove him questioned whether he fit the "moral standards" of the city.
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The poll found that voters in each state believe Clinton to have higher moral standards, to be more intelligent, and to be better prepared than Trump to be president.
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I ended up getting a job at Manresa in Los Gatos, which was great because their moral standards are even higher than mine and they knew more than I did.
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"If he compares Mao Zedong to Hitler, putting aside legal issues, I think he has violated the 'social order' or 'moral standards' of the Seven Bottom Lines," Mr. Zhu said.
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While men get to make an ass of themselves on Monday and show up to work on Tuesday with their reputations intact, women are always held to higher moral standards.
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They are both friends of mine and I respect them both and I think that they are really effective senators, and I think they're both people of high moral standards.
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Just as violence should not be directed towards noncombatants and other vulnerable individuals for our military personnel, violence against innocents is a violation of the moral standards of law enforcement officers.
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The case, brought by Mary Whitehouse, a prominent campaigner for moral standards, alleged that Graham Ross-Cornes, her solicitor, had spied an exposed erect penis during a performance of the play.
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READ: The GOP changed around John McCain -- and now he's fighting to get re-elected Clinton, voters in all three states said, is more intelligent and has higher moral standards than Trump.
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If companies like Delta and Bank of America can pull their arts funding because a centuries-old play made a single artistic choice, that sets a problematic precedent for their moral standards.
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Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) to provide a "yes or no answer," Haspel said that she supports the "higher moral standards" that the U.S. has embraced since renouncing the use of the techniques.
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The lesson: To be truly free to enjoy the best things in life, set proper moral standards for yourself and live within them as undeviatingly as Charlie Parker did in his music.
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Shifting standards In the essay, Benedict asserts that the changes in traditional moral standards on sexuality both in society and within the Catholic Church laid the groundwork for the sex abuse crisis.
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" Lest she be outdone by her boss, Ms. Conway subsequently declared that "the president has tremendous moral standards," the evidence for which apparently was that "he has said the allegations are troubling.
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Voters in all three states say that Clinton is more prepared to be president by wide margins, and she carries about a 10-point edge over Trump on who has higher moral standards.
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"Our principles are clear and simple: supremacy of democracy, human rights and freedoms, legal and moral standards," Russia's president, Boris Yeltsin, told the UN in 313, aligning the country with America and Europe.
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For Uber, partnering with a company like Starbucks — known for its high moral standards — is a major win as the ride-hailing service readies itself for a potential initial public offering in 2019.
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That award was subsequently revoked because it apparently violated the CTA's moral standards, and then reinstated after a spate of bad media coverage; the toy was allowed back on the floor this year.
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Clinton lost ground on honesty and moral standards in the poll that showed tight races in Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio, all swing states that could go to either party in November's presidential election.
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For now, until royalty-free music marketplaces translate their written moral standards to real tangible action, punting to YouTube is one of the only ways artists like Malaponti and Opie will see tangible action.
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It's up to them to apply the moral standards onto what they create and to do their best to ensure that the latest products aren't only available to the more affluent sections of society.
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There are also many who prefer not to advertise their membership because they do not want to be held to the party's notionally high moral standards and its irksome principles of thrift and self-sacrifice.
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The phrase is actually a misnomer: there were local censors, in states and cities, almost from the beginning of the movies, and a set of moral standards, promoted by film executives, had existed since 19153.
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Far from the maligned status ascribed to the IDF by a global campaign of delegitimisation, we are satisfied that Israel would act in accordance with the legal and moral standards our own militaries adhere to.
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Hitler's rise, he argued, owed less to the Austrian corporal's personality, his thuggish supporters and brutish ideas, than to his opponents' cowardice and the weakness of Germany's "gatekeepers"—the guardians of its cultural and moral standards.
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The International Committee for the Red Cross has been the leading body in enforcement of the law and ensuring that it is respected and that countries at war or in conflict abide by minimal moral standards.
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Or they could immediately vote to expel him as Senator Cory Gardner, the Colorado Republican who leads the party's Senate campaign effort, suggested Monday, saying Mr. Moore did not meet the Senate's ethical or moral standards.
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Back in the United States, the World Congress of Families' home base, Dodon's proposals could run afoul of the Constitution, because they would ally church and state in imposing religious moral standards and suppressing free speech and association.
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That understanding, however, was rolled back after the Church Educational System, which oversees all BYU campuses, released a statement last Wednesday clarifying that the "moral standards" of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had not changed.
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Moral (and economic) high ground Part of the image the British built up for themselves under the Empire was certainly that of a country which rose above the low moral standards they thought they saw in other parts of the world.
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The festival has faced the ire of nearby residents who, according to the Pune Mirror, believe the festival, "will hamper the environment and lower moral standards," due to its loud music, traffic, tree cutting, and potential consumption of drugs and alcohol.
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Zhavoronkov acknowledged the ethical concerns raised by Longenesis and platforms like it, but he believes that by introducing it slowly—through a pilot, published paper, clinical trial, and then public release—that Insilico and Bitfury can establish responsible moral standards.
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The real aim, they say, besides enforcing moral standards on the likes of Mr. Oktar, is to close off a final refuge for the news media and the political opposition as the government widens an already formidable crackdown on dissent.
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STEVE CRESCENZO, Chicago Although President Obama's major policy achievements — passage of the Affordable Care Act and the Iran nuclear deal — are now in danger under a Republican president and Congress, there can be no erasing the moral standards he established.
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I think the only way we&aposre going to solve it is if we come together and agree on a certain level of moral standards, that there are a few things and behaviors we don&apost accept no matter what.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's corruption watchdog recently met 15 newly appointed executives at the national social security fund, urging them to adhere to the law and maintain moral standards and discipline, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said on its website on Wednesday.
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Reed, who specializes in how values shape purchasing decisions, explained, consumers can sometimes find a loophole to feel like they've maintained their moral standards and still buy the item they want by separating the tarnished figure or upsetting incident in their mind.
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Trotter also happened to be an inexperienced business manager; that, combined with his steadfast refusal of any advertising that didn't meet his racial and moral standards (skin lighteners and hair straighteners were forbidden; same for liquor and tobacco), meant that revenue dwindled.
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In "Anomie 2006: Dog Eared," part of a series he said was intended to show "a condition of society marred by the absence of moral standards," a giant ice cream cone and a childlike robot tower over an auto graveyard at sunset.
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A person who conducts themselves in accordance with the moral standards that are highly coveted by their peers is a honorable person in Kohistan; people learn they must the property and social boundaries of others in order to be accepted and protected.
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"The Marcoses -- through Duterte -- are erasing the Filipino people's memory and moral standards by burying the former dictator as a hero," said human rights lawyer Jesus Falcis, who was among those who had petitioned the Philippine Supreme Court to try and stop the burial.
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As I see it, these are the options available to me: I could leave my marriage, break up my family and pursue my own satisfaction, which feels like a blatant betrayal of my children and what I have previously thought to be my moral standards.
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" Ms. Reichlen also spoke of "the high moral standards that were instilled in us when we decided to become professional dancers" and affirmed that "each of us standing here tonight is inspired by the values essential to our art form: dignity, integrity, and honor.
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The ethical and moral standards inside the White House have dropped so low that even on the way out the door, conservatives are painting the comically corrupt former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt as a martyred hero victimized by the hysterical liberal media.
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Over the past few years, a number of excellent writers from or deeply familiar with the evangelical community have been covering these tensions, and have been speaking out about how and why the evangelical community seems to protect those who fall short of its moral standards.
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The Times/CBS poll echoes the finding of a Quinnipiac Poll released on Wednesday that showed Trump pulling just ahead of Clinton in the so-called swing states of Florida and Pennsylvania as the former U.S. senator and first lady lost ground on honesty and moral standards.
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Throughout his book, a consistent strain of his critique is that Francis is moving away from the church's objective moral standards toward suspiciously "situational ethics" (basically, the idea that the right thing to do in some circumstances may not be the right thing to do in others).
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What's most remarkable about this series, even when it feels like it's marking time (as it has here and there, in every season), is how it finds a way to tell stories about the slow wearing down of moral standards in characters whose ultimate fates we already know.
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The persistent refusal of the Adamses to sacrifice the integrity of their own intellectual and moral standards and values for the sake of winning public office or popular favor is another of the measuring rods by which we may measure the divergence of American life from its starting point.
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"While there is no definite link between Clinton's drop in Florida and the U.S. Justice Department decision not to prosecute her for her handling of emails, she has lost ground to Trump on questions which measure moral standards and honesty," said Peter Brown, who ran the Quinnipiac poll.
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Both know what it is like to be raised by a person of whom high, perhaps impossibly high, moral standards are expected, and by someone who has to sort out the bitter quarrels that can often break out within communities of supposed like-minded people, such as parishes.
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But the rigid religious longing for and insistence on a return of bygone days and ways, coupled with a maddeningly plastic embrace of an irreligious candidate who fails any reasonable test of responsible ethical and moral standards, shows how much harm they can do, not how needed they are.
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In addition to draining our resources and distorting our vision, the war on terror has caused us to undermine our own moral standards regarding torture, indefinite detention, and the use of force around the world, using drone strikes and other airstrikes that often result in high civilian casualties.
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"While there is no definite link between Clinton's drop in Florida and the U.S. Justice Department decision not to prosecute her for her handling of emails, she has lost ground to Trump on questions that measure moral standards and honesty," said Quinnipiac University Poll assistant director Peter A. Brown.
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Mr. McCain, who died Saturday at 81, spent more than a half-century trying to teach us about torture — that it produces faulty intelligence, that "every man has a breaking point," that military personnel derive a motivational pride from America having higher moral standards than its debased adversaries.
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Some women felt new "freedom" during the war; others saw changing "moral standards" as the result of women who had seen their men "swallowed up in that ever-increasing wave of death ..." In continental Europe, where the war was actually fought, conditions on the home front were even more challenging.
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"While there is no definite link between Clinton's drop in Florida and the U.S. Justice Department decision not to prosecute her for her handling of emails, she has lost ground to Trump on questions which measure moral standards and honesty," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University poll.
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While there was much to criticize about the sometimes prudish and hypocritical Motion Picture Production Code that forced actors to keep their clothes on and avoid foul language in films produced from 1930 to 1968, it could be said that films then were mostly not complicit in the lowering of moral standards.
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We could stop getting better at facial recognition, online-tailored advertising, automated romantic partnering, and all other kinds of creepy predictive analytics for the next ten years and simply focus on what kind of moral standards we want our AI to subscribe to and promote, and we'd be better off as a society.
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If colleges and universities teach the young people that are their charge how to think well but not how to act ethically, how to grow a business but not how to do so with moral standards, if they shape the intellect but fail to inculcate integrity, they fail in their ultimate mission.
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Exposing and embarrassing and taking down a powerful man -- and if there's a transgressive woman to take down too, all the better -- transfers a little bit of that power to the rest of us while also allowing us to pretend that we're acting to our own highest moral standards, even when we're most likely not.
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"Def Comedy Jam," which is returning for the second time with a new title, "All Def Comedy," for one episode on Saturday, also faced the same issues that black comics of the era did: being pigeonholed by critics who single-mindedly focused on the profanity and applied moral standards never used for their white counterparts.
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Hollywood is squeezed between a generation that is tired of its rules, and one that refuses to play by them Changing the Academy doesn't just mean forcing the organization to change; it means picking apart the perceived sanctity of the institution itself, so that individuals feel free to take stands that align with their own moral standards.
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"With the world changing — and our beloved institution in the spotlight — we continue to hold ourselves to the high moral standards that were instilled in us when we decided to become professional dancers," Teresa Reichlen, a principal dancer, said as she read a statement that she had written with another dancer, Adrian Danchig-Waring, on behalf of the company.
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So many of us have waited with bated breath, in disappointed and disbelief that Trudeau seemed to have checked his duty to defend our honor, avoided calling out hateful and antagonistic speech, and sidestepped critical moments that could have drawn some kind of line between us and the frightening devolution of political and moral standards in this American government.
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So why should people not conclude that there's no moral code any more, no discipline, no parenting, no backbone, and what's needed is some guy to shake up the system, blow it up, and put some moral standards back and remind everyone once in a while who has the big stick and can use it to keep everyone in their corners?
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Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisEight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report The Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters MORE (D-Calif.) to provide a "yes or no answer," current acting CIA Director Gina Haspel said she supports the "higher moral standards" that the U.S. has embraced since renouncing the use of the techniques.
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Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Warren offers plan to repeal 85003 crime law authored by Biden Sanders leads Democratic field in Colorado poll MORE (D-Calif.) to provide a "yes or no answer," Haspel said she supported the "higher moral standards" that the U.S. has embraced since renouncing the use of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques.
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