moral code

Example Sentences

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has called for a soft approach on those defying the country’s moral code for now.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

Catholicism is the faith I was baptized in, the one I embraced as a teen and that’s the bedrock for my moral code of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2025

Spain's moral code still confuses composure with virtue.

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2025

“It doesn’t preach a certain religion, but it definitely shows what a moral code we all should live by is.”

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2024

He measured himself and those around him by an impossibly rigorous moral code.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer