Sentence examples for a greater wrong from inspiring English sources

The passionate indignation with which he lied was (in my opinion) rooted in a conviction that it would be a greater wrong for his nomination to be rejected on account of some boorish but judicially irrelevant private behavior than for him to defend himself by indulging in a bit of, to use a stock phrase from a later scandal, lying about sex.

We stopped a greater wrong, we said.

In other words, disrespecting a state's dignity would be a greater wrong than executing an American citizen in violation of his federal rights.

Furthermore, while patriarchal marriages are one of the great wrongs perpetrated upon women, Wollstonecraft argues that a greater wrong is women's lack of independence.

Whatever their color, all tribes subscribed to the rule of justice by retaliation, meaning - punish a wrong with a greater wrong.

In the case of danger to a mother's life, abortion is thought to be wrong, but it is a greater wrong for a fetus to be the cause of a mother's death.

A great wrong has been done by this movement.

Dickens told a friend afterward that "it is better to suffer a great wrong than to have recourse to the much greater wrong of the law".

Keneally writes: "The religiously devout Trevelyan considered murder a great wrong.

"We are called upon to right a great injustice, a great wrong that has been put upon the American people".

The Diallos, he adds, "were dealt a great wrong and deserve to be compensated," but through civil liability, not prosecution.