Sentence examples for doing a wrong from inspiring English sources

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The contention would be futile that Washington in laying an ownership tax would be doing a wrong to nonresidents in allowing a credit for a sales tax already borne by the owner as a result of the same ownership.

Kennedy is not a literary-sexual revolutionary like Burroughs or Kathy Acker - these are stories in which the perceived transgressions, the pain-and-pleasure elements, are often closer to the prurient excitements of doing a wrong thing than the liberations a writer like Acker commonly rehearsed.

She was so captivated by the novel that she later wrote three essays about the ways in which James articulates a kind of moral philosophy, revealing the childishness of aspiring to moral perfection, a life of "never doing a wrong, never breaking a rule, never hurting".

Sometimes, employees need to know that someone is watching them to keep them from doing a wrong move.

Only do the basics if you don't go to a gymnastics training centre, as you could pick up a bad habit of doing a wrong move and twisting your body the wrong way.

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If you say a wrong thing, or do a wrong thing?

"In my life I have never done a wrong thing knowingly or unknowingly.

"It's a malady caused by the brain learning to do a wrong thing, and though a cure has been found, I am a dystonic for life.

Indeed, Basil accuses him of being secretly virtuous: "You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing".

If Iyal ordered Chancer to do a wrong or dangerous thing, or to join him in reckless behavior, would Chancer recognize that they were transgressing?

Indeed, the more the users, the more the possibility to do a wrong mapping increases.

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