Sentence examples for act wrong from inspiring English sources

"A King may be ill advised and act wrong, a Republic never acts right, for a knot of villains support each other, and together they do what no single person dare attempt.

The fact that the Strasbourg court considered that the court of appeal got the balancing act wrong in weighing (a) BA's wish for consistent corporate livery and (b) Eweida's unobjectionable desire to make a small display of her faith is hardly a big deal: BA had already made that concession by changing its uniform policy several years earlier.

Rick Santorum recently argued that Obama's apology over the US military burning Korans in Afghanistan, showed weakness: "It suggests that there is somehow blame, this is somehow that we did something wrong in the sense of doing a deliberate act wrong.

It is possible from an externalist perspective to judge an act wrong but feel no disinclination to perform it.

Imagine that Bob does not in fact foresee a bad consequence that would make his act wrong if he did foresee it, but that Bob could easily have foreseen this bad consequence if he had been paying attention.

"We've got the balancing act wrong," he said.

On this approach, whether the agent's act wrongs the future person will depend on whether the agent is motivated by an appropriate level of concern for the needs and interests of (among others) the future person.

These two questions — about what makes acts wrong and about when sanctions are appropriate — are more tightly connected than sometimes realized.

Suárez agrees that there are acts wrong in themselves, apart from anyone's will, but argues that a provident God must command rational creatures not to do such acts.

When arguing that the defendant was "not knowing the act was wrong", "wrong" is taken to mean "illegal", as set out in R v Windle [1952] 2 QB 826.

According to Steiner "[e]vil acts are wrong acts that are pleasurable for their doer" (Steiner 2002, 189).