Sentence examples for committing a wrong from inspiring English sources

"Unless we fashion a way to provide liability protection to these contractors, we're committing a wrong".

"This is a case that should define the difference between someone committing a wrong and committing a crime," he said.

"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.

For example, if an animal (e.g., a goat) dies due to the negligence of its pastoralist owner, he is obligated to perform the penitential ritual of sha'feroh (from eastern/central Soqotra or shaghfereh from western Soqotra), which is equivalent to the Islamic ritual of repentance, kaffāra: to ask God for forgiveness after violating an oath or committing a wrong.

This basic rule of justice essentially acknowledges that government committing a wrong under its official capacity is far worse than a private citizen doing so, undermining belief in and support for that government.

"I had committed a wrong against him, but I missed him very much," Jin-man thinks.

He commits a wrong, but disguises his motives in a smoke trail of disinformation.

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.

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.

"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.