Sentence examples for acknowledged evil from inspiring English sources

Can we not anticipate the same outcome: the break-up of software's acknowledged evil empire and the emergence of its captive technologies into the world of fair competition?Alan TobeyBerkeley, CaliforniaProsperous or free?SIR – Mr Lee Kuan Yew judges the strength of a country by its economic prosperity ("A rational choice", April 22nd).

Payola, the practice of paying radio DJs money for airplay or pay to play, as it is more colloquially known has been an acknowledged evil in music since the 1950s.

Bloggers are questioning why a new Scholastic Klutz book entitled "Invasion of the Bristlebots" fails to acknowledge Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, who named and popularized the titular toothbrush robots.

I would add that those who refuse to acknowledge evil are doomed to permit it.

St. Thomas said we must acknowledge evil and not ignore it; I am a religious man, and you are evil.

Turning away from reason entails acknowledging evil, and it is here where the subtle shift from Music Has the Right to Children to Geogaddi is most significant.

This new tradition acknowledged that evil was so dominant on earth that only God's cataclysmic intervention could free the world from its grip.

But they are no more than symbolic labels, for while Hitler is universally acknowledged as evil and irrational to the point of insanity, Lenin was the interpreter in practice of the rationalistic tenets of Karl Marx; and as for Einstein he has remained to this day so close to pure reason that his name is already hewn on the gates of Olympus together with those of Pythagoras, Euclid and Newton.

Yet, Mencius also acknowledged that evil, all too evident in the world, resulted when people abandoned the beginnings of goodness they were born with.

Unlike most of his fellow prisoners, Speer readily if somewhat vaguely acknowledged the evils of Nazism and accepted a diffuse responsibility for his own actions.

In addition to these observations about the equality of conditions in the United States, he also acknowledged the evils of slavery, opposed the institution in the U.S. and worked to abolish it in the French colonies.