Sentence examples for defective character from inspiring English sources
Riis believed that defective character led to poverty and that conscience-driven capitalism was the best solution.
One thing is clear though: his actions were caused by an illness and not a defective character".
At the same time, the scientific evidence supports that most young law breakers are quite different from typical criminals in that normal developmental forces, and not defective character, drive their criminal conduct.
And for Finnis, Lee and George, equal treatment of same-sex and heterosexual relations is out of the question due to the morally defective character of same-sex relations.
He continues, "as a result of this fraudulent misconduct, investors were deceived about the fundamentally defective character of the mortgages underlying the RMBS [residential mortgage-backed securities] they purchased".
Although there is no division according to the (chapters), the tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) are placed before each Gospel (except Matthew – because of its defective character).
Just as Socrates develops an account of a virtuous, successful human being and contrasts it with several defective characters, he also develops an account of a virtuous, successful city and contrasts it with several defective constitutions.
Despite the rise of medicalization in the nineteenth century, Martha Stoddard Holmes argues that stereotypical representations of "afflicted" and "defective" characters like Charles Dickens's tragic Tiny Tim are ripe [End Page 299] for understanding disability as a social category because they are positioned in relation to kinship and labor.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all of our defective characters.
He has pressed the case that Kerviel is a liar, someone with defective moral character and an undistinguished education, who simmered with resentment over his comparatively small bonuses and failure to advance more rapidly.
Those who are defective in character may have the rational skill needed to achieve their ends the skill Aristotle calls cleverness (1144a23 8)—but often the ends they seek are worthless.
