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Extreme ideas offer an alternative compass to disoriented souls like Mohammed Bouyeri, van Gogh's suspected murderer.
Indeed, it is virtually impossible to resolve the current mess without some kind of compass pointing to where the future system lies.
Journalism is democracy’s compass; we must find a way to recalibrate it.
The team arguing against the motion focused on the personal attributes usually associated with effective leaders: a moral compass, balanced reasoning, and a disciplined and principled approach to decision-making.
Paraphrasing Katherine Hepburn in the movie The African Queen, religion allows us to rise above wicked old Mother Nature, handing us a moral compass.
For example, because atheists supposedly lack a moral compass, they should be guided by pure self-interest and walk by the drowning child.
By what compass, toward what horizon?
After 1989 China seemed to lose its moral compass.
Yes, Silicon Valley is still admired as a source of invention and creative destruction; but it is also widely viewed as having lost its ethical compass.
China could boast technological wonders - the compass, navigational abilities, the printing press, fireworks and explosives - that barely touched the rest of the world.
I fear that it stems from the fact that we Europeans are so materialistic, so devoid of a moral compass.
Putin and Merkel are fixed compass points not only in Europe.
While other countries have pursued global political and economic strategies, we Europeans have relied on our shared history, democratic traditions, and moral compass in the service of fitful regional integration.
Under Trump, a man with no moral compass whatsoever, the Republicans’ policy priorities have remained the same, but any remaining semblance of “values” has all but vanished.
Fortunately, this coldly “realist” US foreign policy slowly gave way to one with some moral compass and global concern.
When one is being buffeted by a storm of this magnitude, the worst thing one can do is lose one’s compass.
But we must use that compass to chart a new course toward an economic model that placed human and environmental sustainability at its center.
When debating with Republicans, I could see that they had a genuine commitment to their ideas and were following a moral compass.
The market economy is a powerful force that needs direction, and regulators and market participants themselves are the ones holding the compass.
The question now, of course, is whether Johnson has a plan – or at least a compass – for navigating the chaos he helped unleash.
Europe needs a plan – a political compass – and our citizens expect one, too.
Similarly, the EU’s recently launched European Green Deal, Industrial Strategy, and Just Transition Mechanism are acting as the motor and compass for the €750 billion ($888 billion) “Next Generation EU” recovery fund.
Are we going to use this crisis as an opportunity to call some of the mistakes of recent years by their name, and adjust our trajectory at last to the compass of reality?
You're familiar with some of them, such as the thermometer, which gives the temperature inside the Nautilus; the barometer, which measures the heaviness of the outside air and forecasts changes in the weather; the humidistat, which indicates the degree of dryness in the atmosphere; the storm glass, whose mixture decomposes to foretell the arrival of tempests; the compass, which steers my course; the sextant, which takes the sun's altitude and tells me my latitude; chronometers, which allow me to calculate my longitude; and finally, spyglasses for both day and night, enabling me to scrutinize every point of the horizon once the Nautilus has risen to the surface of the waves."
The compass still showed our heading as east-northeast, the pressure gauge indicated a pressure of five atmospheres (corresponding to a depth of fifty meters), and the electric log gave our speed as fifteen miles per hour.
"And I'll be able to visit those famous islands where the Compass and the Astrolabe came to grief?""If you like, professor."
Captain Nemo never took his eyes off the two concentric circles of the compass hanging in the cabin.
Moreover, to renew our air supply, the submersible rose to the surface of the waves only at night, and relying solely on compass and log, it steered by dead reckoning.
I wanted to consult the compass.
There my eyes fell on the compass.
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