How to Use moral authority in a Sentence

moral authority

noun

• This is a man who has much moral authority in Israel due in part to the loss of his own 25-year-old son, Gal, to the war in northern Gaza in December.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2024
• And for the most part, thanks in no small part to the moral authority of the excellent James as the crusading Chicago journalist, Taub pulls it off.
  — Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 18 Apr. 2024
• But each became in his own era a moral authority for the thinking part of Russian society.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 17 May 2024
• Steven has more moral authority than anyone else on episodic TV.
  — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 18 Jan. 2024
• Without faith, there is no greater moral authority than ourselves.
  — WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
• But as a devoted fan of The Hero comics since childhood, Cootie still believes in the character's message that law enforcement is society's moral authority.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 14 June 2023
• The season is similarly probing about the moral authority that can be reflexively assigned to women over men in our fantasies of female vengeance for male aggression.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2024
• With that arrangement, Brussels salvaged internal harmony—at the cost of the moral authority on multilateralism that Europe had worked so hard to maintain during the age of Trump.
  — Chad P. Bown, Foreign Affairs, 28 Apr. 2020
• Yet for all its moral authority, Lange’s work was also a vector for manipulation and propaganda.
  — Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
• But as long as the administration sidesteps the reality of Israeli abuses in Gaza and applies the rules of military assistance selectively, the moral authority claimed by the United States will slip further away.
  — Sarah Yager, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2024
• Our moral authority is often presumed, especially when our children are under threat.
  — Emily Raboteau, The New York Review of Books, 1 Nov. 2020
• The monarch is presented with royal objects, including the Sovereign's Orb, a golden globe mounted with a cross, emeralds, rubies, sapphires, rose-cut diamonds and a row of pearls, which represents religious and moral authority.
  — Conor Murray, Forbes, 6 May 2023
• Baron claims no objective journalist would appoint themselves a moral authority or fail to acknowledge their own limitations.
  — Max Moran, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
• In 2022, his ambitions to become the country’s head of state, a seven-year position usually filled by a figure of unimpeachable integrity and sobriety whose influence flows from moral authority, drew mockery.
  — Rachel Donadio, New York Times, 12 June 2023
• Her intellect and wit are undiminished; her moral authority is overpowering.
  — The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2023
• The accusations that Biden fired then at Vladimir Putin have been ricocheting back, damaging both his own moral authority and international solidarity with Ukraine.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 14 Nov. 2023
• The president, a mostly ceremonial figure, has little executive power, but his voice is meant to be unifying and carries moral authority.
  — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2023
• In contrast, a writer who addresses an individual reader presents himself as someone expert in his métier but in every other way equal with his reader, having no moral authority or special insight on anything beyond his art.
  — Nick Laird, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2023
• The mothers’ moral authority is perceived to endow them with perpetual innocence, and the United States is perceived to inherit its moral authority from Christian founders—rendering both the mothers and the nation incapable of committing injustice.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
• In forgoing obvious luxury, the crown regained its moral authority, and grounded it in a particular vision of masculinity—one that deliberately did away with the ornamentation of old.
  — Hazlitt, 12 May 2022
• But the best explanation that the court itself has provided is that its legitimacy and its moral authority is directly tied to its ability to offer principled justifications for decision making.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
• The poll, which asked respondents to grade current and former presidents on 10 characteristics, including administrative skills, moral authority and economic management, placed him 45th out of all the former U.S. presidents.
  — Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2024
• Diplomats and foreign policy experts suggest this personal and nostalgic approach is not only distinctive but also strategic, enhancing U.S. credibility and moral authority, especially in the wake of the Trump administration.
  — Bo Erickson, CBS News, 11 July 2023
• Each respondent was asked to grade current and former presidents on 10 characteristics, including administrative skills, moral authority and economic management.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024