1.   Even the most loyal officials found it increasingly difficult to defend serfdom on moral grounds.

2.   Having gained the high moral ground, I was reluctant to quit it right away.

3.   Lehman Brothers, the investment banking firm handling the sale, went to Harvester and objected on simple moral grounds.

4.   Many providers remove groups on moral grounds, or to avoid controversy.

5.   The argument on moral grounds is not so easy.

6.   The debate on the National Health Service has brought to the forefront very different values with each of the two major parties seeking to capture the high moral ground.

7.   Already some companies have retreated from Burma on moral grounds.

8.   And it said the lack of labeling violated the religious rights of people who did not want to eat such foods on moral grounds.

9.   Another contractor challenged the law on moral grounds.

10.   Both sides have produced a torrent of alarming advertisements and television commercials as they seek to assume the high moral ground in the debate.