Sentence examples for a wrongdoer in a from inspiring English sources

High-profile arrests are one thing: actually convicting a wrongdoer in a timely and transparent fashion quite another.

Punishment is the intentional infliction of harm or suffering on a wrongdoer in response to a wrong committed.

Because condoning and other forms of tolerating wrongdoing may involve transcending negative emotions caused by having been wronged, making exceptions to moral rules, or re-accepting a wrongdoer in the wake of a relationship compromising wrong, condonation may to this extent resemble the standard conception of forgiveness.

On this approach, forgiveness involves volitions or efforts of will, as when a victim of wrong tries to overcome angry emotions caused by having been wronged, or refrains from chastising or punishing a wrongdoer, in so doing demonstrating a willingness to let bygones be bygones.

And prosecutors are very resistant to granting such an assurance of (what's called) limited use immunity, lest they somehow inadvertently grant broader immunity than intended, or grant broader immunity to a true wrongdoer in an effort to make a case against a more significant target -- a case that perhaps is not there.

If most people behind bars were serious criminals, such conditions could be partly understood as a pre-civilised desire for vengeance against wrongdoers in a region plagued with violent crime.

President Bush, addressing the wave of corporate wrongdoing that has gripped the nation for months, called for more aggressive policing of big business and longer prison sentences for wrongdoers in a speech on Wall Street.

The monitoring "will provide regulators a critical new tool to surveil the securities markets and pursue wrongdoers, in a much more efficient and effective way than we can today," said David Shillman, associate director of the S.E.C.'s trading and markets unit.

"Last year, we focused on innovative, high impact cases and punished and deterred wrongdoers in a way that sent important messages to the market," said White in remarks to SEC staff in February.

Earlier in the week, she had tweeted an oblique warning that those who do business with a wrongdoer are complicit in his deeds.

And the goal of resentment is to cause appropriate injury in a wrongdoer, not malign injury or revenge that are distinguished from resentment.