Sentence examples for evil disposed from inspiring English sources
A week before the election, Schenck announced that he would assign federal soldiers to the polls, with orders to arrest any "evil disposed persons" who might disrupt the voting.
In response to these actions, the government introduced the Black Act, formally "An Act for the more effectual punishing wicked and evil disposed Persons going armed in Disguise and doing Injuries and Violence to the Persons and Properties of His Majesty's Subject, and for the more speedy bringing the Offenders to Justice", to Parliament on 26 April 1723; it came into force on 27 May.
On Russell's dispositional account, an evil person might never do evil because although she is strongly and fixed disposed to do evil in autonomy favouring conditions, she might lack opportunities to perform evil actions or else autonomy favouring conditions might never obtain.
According to Russell, an evil person is someone who is strongly and fixedly disposed to perform evil actions when in autonomy favouring conditions.
Someone is strongly disposed to do evil if she is very likely to do evil.
Someone is fixedly disposed to do evil if this disposition is unlikely to change over time.
He disposed of "the banality of evil" as no better than a slogan: it contradicted and undermined the "radical evil" Arendt had testified to in "The Origins of Totalitarianism," her earlier study.
But many thinkers at this time understood human nature as fundamentally disposed toward beneficence, so that evil was seen as arising from socialization and upbringing rather than from deep drives within the human being.
They expect to make more arrests of notorious characters, and expel all evil-disposed men from the region.
The stories were not believed by McKinley either; the President-elect in February 1897 called accounts of Sherman's mental decay "the cheap inventions of sensational writers or other evil-disposed or mistaken people".
