The phrase 'committed a wrong' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an act which was wrong or unlawful. Example: Harry was sorry for the wrong he had committed.
"I had committed a wrong against him, but I missed him very much," Jin-man thinks.
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.
"An apology is an admission that you have committed a wrong, and herein lies my problem," Assemblyman Richard A. Merkt, a Republican from Morris County, said from the floor of the Assembly when it was debating the resolution.
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.
Drawing upon the canonical articles on "moral luck" by Bernard Williams and Thomas Nagel, we argue that is false to suppose that an actor cannot be held responsible for having committed a wrong unless all the relevant features of the situation in which she acted were in principle subject to her control.
If you intentionally deceive your opponent, according to deontologists, you may already have committed a wrong; whereas if you lose the point anyway, according to utilitarians, no harm has been done.
"This is a case that should define the difference between someone committing a wrong and committing a crime," he said.
He commits a wrong, but disguises his motives in a smoke trail of disinformation.
"Unless we fashion a way to provide liability protection to these contractors, we're committing a wrong".
"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.
"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.
