You would expect the home of St. Francis to be not only a haven for birds but also a moral beacon.

Going along to be left alone is the response you or I might make to totalitarian pressure, not the response of a "moral beacon."

The Michauds are moral beacons among the rampaging selfishness all around them.

He argues that Israel is a moral beacon which should not return any territory to Arabs or even negotiate with them.

The Cowboys have not exactly been a moral beacon.

More than that, a diplomat said today, "He is a moral beacon."

From that moment, she believes, any hope the organization might become a moral beacon for the world was dashed.

This week is about highlighting Israel as a moral beacon.

We should at least want respect, for example, for similar standards to those which are, for us, a kind of moral, ethical and political beacon.

They are "the moral beacons of our movement, not the combat commanders," a young lawyer recently said of the dissidents.