Sentence examples for commits a wrong from inspiring English sources
He commits a wrong, but disguises his motives in a smoke trail of disinformation.
"No well-ordered republic should ever cancel the crimes of its citizens by their merits; but, having established reward for good actions and penalties for evil ones, and having rewarded a citizen for good conduct who afterwards commits a wrong, it should chastise him for that wrong without regard to his previous merits.
Any legal entity which commits a wrong is bound by law to restore the injured person to status quo, to the extent that that is possible, regardless of what the malfeasant may have to undergo in accomplishing that act of justice.
It is important to confirm the patriotism of the entire Syrian people and that people's demands are righteous and the state will exert all its efforts to respond to them; and that he who commits a wrong deed against his country is deluded because people and specially the opposition are very furious of the language of treason.
By Richard Harris The New Yorker, October 1, 1973 P. 29 "No well-ordered republic should ever cancel the crimes of its citizens by their merits; but, having established reward for good actions and penalties for evil ones, and having rewarded a citizen for good conduct who afterwards commits a wrong, it should chastise him for that wrong without regard to his previous merits.
"This is a case that should define the difference between someone committing a wrong and committing a crime," he said.
"Unless we fashion a way to provide liability protection to these contractors, we're committing a wrong".
But a lawyer for the family, Jonathan S. Abady, said the verdict was a "valuable public declaration" that the police officer, Craig Yokemick, had committed a wrong against Mr. Banks.
"I had to decide between committing a wrong - agreeing to try to entrap someone whom, based on our mutual dealings, I believe to be innocent - or standing up to fight for what I believe is right," he said.
That's the outlook, roughly, that when somebody does something that violates legal or moral norms, they've committed a wrong, and in so doing they've put the scales of justice somehow out of line.
