He has no scruples about lying.

And oldfashioned boys have oldfashioned scruples.

Your scruples do you credit, my dear cousin.

Not only don't you have any scruples, you don't have any brains. I don't get you.

I ignored it, and went on combating what I assumed to be the scruples of an exaggerated delicacy.

Perhaps these offences might have been overlooked, had not your pride been hurt by the confession of the scruples long prevented my forming serious design on you.

Necessity may also lead to reducing or even eliminating sovereignty when a government, whether from a lack of capacity or conscious policy, is unable to provide for the basic needs of its citizens. This reflects not simply scruples, but a view that state failure and genocide can lead to destabilizing refugee flows and create openings for terrorists to take root.