Sentence examples for believed it wrong from inspiring English sources

Especially, he believed it wrong to increase military spending but not housing allocations.

He said the United States had opposed Israel's invasion of Beirut, both because "we believed it wrong in principle and for fear that it would provoke further fighting".

The Sun, also in praise of Javid, accepted that the views of Islamist terrorists "may be a perversion of Islam", but it believed it wrong "to pretend that the terrorist murders in Paris have nothing to do with Islam".

If Pending Vegan admitted to them that he now believed it wrong to eat animals — even while he still craved the tang of smoky steaks and salt-greasy bacon — he'd lower himself, in their eyes, to a state of childlike moral absolutism.

This second friend took a few, but I declined, believing it wrong of friend No. 1 to pass along these letters.

As depicted by the dashed lines, defections off the high road can occur throughout the process not noticing that one is in a moral situation, not thinking that cheating is morally wrong, or not feeling responsible for your cheating even if you believe it wrong.

Industry officials said that they believed it was wrong to carve out an exception for one disease and one region.

Harriet Harman, the shadow culture secretary, said she believed it was wrong to send people to prison for not paying for a television licence.

They said pupils believed it was wrong to learn about other religions, were not taught art, music or drama and had a "narrow view" of women in society.

One of the reasons I believed it would be wrong to leave the EU was related to grants.

ACC Bannister said he believed it was "the wrong one" and it would do little to support and encourage victims of sexual abuse to come forward.