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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of moralise.

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  • Apart from stating his belief that Europe should be more involved in shaping a new economic order where financial capitalism should be 'moralised' - which he sees as a justification for further political integration on an European level - Sarkozy also managed once more to give Turkey the cold shoulder treatment.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • Apart from stating his belief that Europe should be more involved in shaping a new economic order where financial capitalism should be 'moralised' - which he sees as a justification for further political integration on an European level - Sarkozy also managed once more to give Turkey the cold shoulder treatment.

    Meanwhile in Brussels (and beyond)... 2009

  • Romanorum_ in which the monkish compiler has curiously "moralised" the actions of three noodles:

    The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies William Alexander Clouston 1869

  • _Gesta Romanorum_, a collection of moral tales (or tales "moralised") which were read in Christian churches throughout Europe during the

    Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers William Alexander Clouston 1869

  • It's not about him being a totalitarian monster, but sadly this mindset * is*, I think, at the very heart of his moralised antipathy.

    An Open Letter to John C. Wright Hal Duncan 2009

  • And then I sat down and moralised upon the fair years and fat, which had made my skin soft and brought the nerves close to the surface; for the singlet was rough and raspy as a hair shirt, and I am confident that the most rigorous of ascetics suffer no more than I did in the ensuing twenty-four hours.

    THE DESCENT 2010

  • Andrew Marr asked him the following: If we are to have a re-moralised politics, a new kind of citizenship, gives us some indication of where politically this new morality or ideology is going to come, what it feels like.

    OPEN THREAD.. 2009

  • There is a danger of becoming quite literally a de-moralised society, where nobody will tell the truth anymore about what is good and bad, right and wrong.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • As it happens, I have been banging on for the past two decades about our de-moralised society, the way morality has been turned into a dirty word through non-judgmentalism and moral relativism which have inverted right and wrong, good and bad, truth and lies, and the terrible damage to individuals and society which has resulted from the collapse of moral responsibility.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • They say this because Christians have over-moralised HIV.

    Healing the Church through a Pandemic: Ecclesial Reflections on the Scriptures 2008

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