Sentence examples for acting unjustly from inspiring English sources

The phrase "acting unjustly" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to describe someone taking an action that is unfair, immoral, or illegal. For example, "The CEO was accused of acting unjustly when he fired several employees without cause."

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Agents who act on their own, private, judgment of justice will be perceived by others to be acting unjustly.

Wolterstorff in this work defends the claim that there are natural human rights, and that violating such rights is one way of acting unjustly towards a person.

The reasoning in our discussion reflects a view that if individuals are not assisted to realise this moral right yet it is within the means of obligation bearers (both HIC and LIC governments), then such obligation bearers are acting unjustly.

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Pity, for example, may motivate a judge to act unjustly.

But equally, no generation is free to act unjustly.

Scandalously the only thesp of 1980 best picture Ordinary People's leading quartet not nominated – inevitably the only one not indulging in capital-A acting – and unjustly overlooked for his epic 15-plus-minute monologue explaining Oliver Stone's entire JFK, here's one US conspiracy even his Mr X couldn't fathom.

Within the response, Theophilus Cibber emphasised the inability of the management to effectively run the theatre, claimed that they were acting like tyrants, and alleged that they unjustly refused the offer by the actors to rent out the patent.

Notice that on the account of the distinction between the institutional and the individual levels of just/unjust actions and relations, if a role occupant (acting qua role occupant) treats some non-role occupant unjustly then this is, nevertheless, an injustice at the institutional level.

Women can unmask these ideological misrepresentations by achieving and acting on a shared understanding of themselves as women that is, as a social group unjustly constituted by sexual objectification.

Enough acting.

There was little room for pure escapism in any TV category this year (not when the Oval Office insists on acting "Veep -ish), but let's pause and remember that the Emmys are really about a different kind of politics: arguing oVeep -ish of our favorite TV shows have butn honored and which were unjustletsnubbed.

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