Sentence examples for first wrongdoers from inspiring English sources

First, wrongdoers deserve not merely to suffer but to suffer punishment.

Judges have long struggled to articulate rules and principles governing the responsibility in tort of a remote actor whose wrong consists of setting the stage for a second wrongdoer who inflicts injury on a victim.

Although the usufructuary normally does not have the right to possession in civil law, he is normally given possessory remedies against third-party wrongdoers.

The legislation, if approved by the House and signed by President Bush, would enable the agency to impose steep fines on a broad range of wrongdoers without first obtaining approval from a federal judge.

a reasonable and just one, that an innocent purchaser of personal property from a wrongdoer shall first be informed of the defect in his title, and have an opportunity to deliver the property to the true owner, before he shall be made liable as a tort feasor for a wrongful conversion". See, also, Employers' Fire Ins.

But he also seemed to deflect some of the responsibility, saying Ivory Coast's "security forces always have the first line of responsibility against wrongdoers" — a seeming non sequitur considering that the security forces were the ones to open fire on the neighborhood crowd.

First, the challenge of justifying wrongdoers' forfeiture of the right not to be punished, if they do not deserve to be punished, is different from the challenge of doing the same if they do deserve to be punished.

It called on the government to get the law-enforcement authorities to investigate the allegations and bring wrongdoers to justice.At first, many of the victims were Tamils from the north and east.

First, it serves the purpose of restoring wrongdoers to full moral agency even in the absence of the victim's forgiveness.

There is disagreement among scholars about whether forgiveness as compassion is unilateral and unconditional, requiring that the victim of wrong forgive wrongdoers irrespective of whether the latter first show signs of repentance (Fiddes, 1989; Jones, 1995), or whether forgiveness is only justifiable if it is premised upon such signs (Swinburne, 1989).

The first element of justice is making sure that wrongdoers personally pay for their misdeeds.