The humanists have written their own code of morality.

He professed to believe in a strict code of morality, yet he was involved continually in acts that caused him enormous guilt and shame.

Depicting their closed society from within and thus on its own terms, it ascribes to these gangsters a highly developed code of morality.

The colonists abhorred private property, practised a rigid code of morality, strict vegetarianism and nudism.

They merely accept the code of morality to which modern society still conforms.

They were formed by people of humble origin, usually from the field, under the leadership of a chief who imposed their own concept of morality, honor, justice and piety.

They wish to develop in a way that still respects their local concepts of morality and their relationships with nature and with each other.

It can refer to, and be used synonymously with, the concepts of morality, self-righteousness, and superiority complex.

The debate between centralism and non-centralism revolves around the relationship between the so-called thin and thick concepts of morality.

The year's best adventure book, another painstaking piece of reportage, disguises its morality tale beneath the plot of a high-octane thriller.

Hardly surprising, then, that we turn every sport into a morality tale.

Instead, there was a morality tale — the good soldier versus his smart-talking persecutor — plus a whiff of uncertainty as to who was the better fighter.

This action thriller thus doubles as a semi-serious morality tale — a blend judged to perfection by the director.

This couldn't have been a more perfectly structured morality tale.

But surely, these awards are about football ability, not personal morality.

Crusading can easily become a dodge for facing up to one's lack of personal morality.

This was not a question of personal morality but of betrayal.

Consider the area of personal morality.

When part of your pitch to the public involves trumpeting high standards of personal morality, you can hardly complain when the public seeks to hold you to them.

They see them as a threat to public morality.

Another calls on the state to 'safeguard ethics and public morality'.

It's about medical ethics, big money politics and public morality.

As the new medium took hold, cinema was quickly seen to be endangering public morality.

His sanctimonious reaction to criticism was to pose as an arbiter of public morality.

What goes on in the characters' heads becomes, in the sphere of conduct, a question of morality.

Ultimately, the problem stems from a refusal to take the question of morality seriously.

Tax has become a question of morality as well as of money.

It has been a fraught few months for the question of morality in sport.

It's not a question of morality it's a question of good public policy.