To some this will suggest that we have lost our moral bearings.

Strategists for both political parties now describe an unease in the nation caused by a strong public sense that the country has lost its moral bearings.

"My dad, unfortunately, and not out of choice, has had no influence on our upbringing, on our religious or social or moral bearings."

Nora may, in the play's famous last scene, claim that her sheltered life has left her with no moral bearings, but the audience knows better.

Will it lose its power, like Samson, or its moral bearings like the missionary?

But what makes these letters rise above inanity is the portrait they provide of a wartime capital cut adrift from moral bearings.

Webster refused to lose sight of our moral bearings.

I don't believe that Americans lost all their moral bearing just because Donald Trump's book was a best-seller.

Or is the government so intent on proving that it's tough on terrorism that it has lost its moral bearing?

Men fall into ten classes with regard to merit and demerit, and their religious and moral bearings.