1.   But most talented people have little incentive to defer to an individual without a strong moral core.

2.   But if the moral core is a muscle, it needs to be toned, strengthened and firmed up.

3.   Despite the unrelenting grimness of its subject matter, it is a film with a definite moral core that deals with extremes of human behaviour.

4.   In a crowded field of conservative contenders, Bauer has a singular claim to the moral core of the far right.

5.   Jackson, who refused to disclose his working budget, said the film has a moral core.

6.   Kellie Martin is wonderful in a show that embodies spunk with a rich moral core.

7.   They form the moral core of the human-services lobbying effort.

8.   They were also pastoral tales with a moral core.

9.   Trese, as a family man in desperate straits, gives the movie its moral core even as he goes along with the crooked scheming.