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moral restraint

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meanings of moraland restraint


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moral
adjective
uk /ˈmɒr.əl/ us /ˈmɔːr.əl/
relating to the standards of good or bad behaviour, fairness, honesty, etc. that each person believes in, rather than ...
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restraint
noun
uk /rɪˈstreɪnt/ us /rɪˈstreɪnt/
calm and ...
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Examples of moral restraint


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Malthusian theories (specifically "moralrestraint") were popularly characterized as irreligious and as a threat to conventional domesticity.
The most notable change in the second edition was the introduction of "moralrestraint" as one of the checks to population.
Malthus's emphasis on "moralrestraint" and the images of domestic misery that result from overpopulation challenged early-nineteenth-century models of domesticity.
Children, as in much literature, circulated as moral innocents, and hence, moral weakness; the child's invocation of moralrestraint, "spare our precious lives," cannot check transgressive violence.
I know there are many rebels against just law and wholesome moralrestraint who have masked their caprice under the name of "liberty".
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Family not only served as an economic asset, but also as a means of moralrestraint.
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His concept of egoistic property not only rejects moralrestraint on how own obtains and uses "things", but includes other people as well.
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In transaction cost economics, opportunism means self-interest seeking with guile, involving some kind of deliberate deceit and the absence of moralrestraint.
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His concept of egoistic property not only rejects moralrestraint on how one obtains and uses "things", but includes other people as well.
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Malthus held that in order to prevent widespread suffering, from famine for example, what he called moralrestraint (which included abstinence) was required.
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There is a need for moralrestraint.
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Many of its supporters held that feeble mindedness was of particular concern because it weakened moralrestraint more than physical capability and was therefore connected with criminality, poverty and promiscuity.
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