Voorbeelden van scruple

• The left with its scruples about the world's first socialist country and its fear of providing grist to the right's mill.

• They must have had some scruples about it.

• I have no scruples whatsoever in that connection.

• He is stubborn, ruthless, intelligent and devoid of moral scruples—the most dangerous kind of opponent.

• He was of a shy and retiring disposition, and he had some scruples about using violence to meet violence.

• Obviously that is an exaggeration, because many doctors, even if they did not respect the law, have religious scruples about doing anything of the sort.

• Many of these wrecked cars get into the hands of back-street repairers who have no scruples.

• If a person does that he does not bargain; he does nothing except insist that his scruples shall be respected.

• Her own innate scruples make her loath to occupy this all-providing, all-deciding, monolithic role among responsible, civilised mankind.

• A nation that denies those freedoms to its own people will have few scruples about denying them to others, agreements or no agreements.

• We do not have these scruples for magistrates' courts.

• Indeed, it is very important for someone with the scruples that he has to make that bold statement and demonstrate by example.

• What we have to do, apparently, is to throw over our moral scruples.

• I have tried hard to put out of my mind any trivial and foolish or affected scruples in this matter.

• The media picture themselves as the upholders of rectitude, but many members of the media have neither principles nor scruples.