Sentence examples for evil greater from inspiring English sources

The plot focuses on the cast overcoming the manipulation they face at an international level and occasionally attempting to reconcile their differences to fight an evil greater than either side ever acknowledged, making way for scenarios in which their allegiances are stressed and put to the test.

The myth and its attendant labels (axis of evil, Great Satan) are useful for politicians to make the case for war and for the public to buy into it.

Abortion is among a few evils greater than others, the document asserts.

Aquinas even said that in doing this the "wise legislator" would be imitating God, who tolerates certain evils lest greater evils ensue.

In so doing, St. Thomas Aquinas said, the "wise legislator" is imitating God who, though all powerful and supremely good, tolerates certain evils lest greater evils ensue.

As Nagel (2002, 36) allows while defending a status view, "there are evils great enough so that one would be justified in murdering or torturing an innocent person to prevent them".

Another reaction was that it was the lesser of two evils, with the greater evil being that the Celera data would not be released at all.

It was a war in which all on both sides seemed to be victims of evil forces greater than themselves; of technology, imperialism or the public-school system.

Train: Extended resistance to evil, at great personal risk.

Surely American soldiers have confronted outright evil in great conflicts.

Madison acknowledged that slavery was an evil of great magnitude, a "moral, social and economical" failure.