Sentence examples for a minor evil from inspiring English sources

Overcrowding in the dressing-rooms is a minor evil.

There was an unwritten rule that state policies aimed at the cultural assimilation of minorities should be ignored as the "minor evil" with regard to the rights enshrined in the Minority Treaties when those policies were seen as guaranteeing the internal stability of the state concerned.

The encouraging factor is the growing consensus among the Gulf states to root out this (minor) evil.

Expected or not, these minor evils would not make much of a case against the existence of God.

One kind of reply to the objection given is to argue that the objector has taken the data of the argument from evil – typically horrendous evils – and replaced them with some relatively minor evils.

But opponents say expensing options is a minor form of evil.

First a monk, then by 423 bishop of Cyrrhus, near Antioch, Theodoret evangelized the region and contended with Christian sectarians in doctrinal questions giving rise to several treatises on apologetics, the systematic exposition of Christian faith, one of which, Therapeutikē ("The Cure for Pagan Evils"), has become a minor classic.

Mean-spirited, obnoxious and indiscriminately hostile comments are a necessary online evil and will always be a (minor) part of the technology-based global conversation.

"I'm a minor".

First, a minor quibble.

This was a minor annoyance.