Sentence examples for evil gain from inspiring English sources
Locke designates no special faculty by which we acquire the basic moral concepts of good and evil, since these are merely a modification of our ideas of natural good and evil; moral good and evil gain their special significance from considering ideas of pleasure and pain in specific contexts.
This view of the world, which turns Bush and Blair into the real "axis of evil", gains force with each indignant repetition.
This is the actual triumph of good over evil, gaining knowledge of who we really are, and of God - and of how to reach him.
Wouldn't the sudden appearance on the stage of such titans as DeLillo, Roth, Bellow or Updike mean that, whatever its professed intentions, the new prize would effectively become an American award, squeezing out talented but less accessible writers for the Man Group's evil corporate gain?
Somehow the forces of evil have gained the levers of power, and unless they are dislodged, the values necessary to the sustaining of everything we cherish will be overwhelmed.
You must defend good in order to prevent evil from gaining the upper hand.
Yes, sometimes vigilantism saves the day; sometimes people working on the outskirts of the law can protect those of us who live within it; sometimes the law itself can prevent evil men from gaining the tools to wreak destruction.
Evil triumphed and gained acceptance in small degrees.
After Cassie, Max, and Sean work together to defeat the Evil Thing, she gains respect for her brother.
