Sentence examples for grave evil from inspiring English sources

But directly killing an innocent person is a grave evil.

Asked about the spiritual consequences of committing suicide, Bishop Lori replied: "Objectively speaking, suicide is a grave evil.

Sexual misconduct, especially toward minors, is "the most heinous betrayal," he wrote, "a grave evil and sin".

(Worthwhile Canadian Initiative) The grave evil of unemployment (Econlog) Sympathy for the Dijsselbloem (Dan Davies c/o Pawel Morski) The underground recovery (New Yorker).

For Eliot "our social novels profess to represent the people as they are, and the unreality of their representations is a grave evil".

Given the enormity of the harms and restrictions on freedom involved, they can be justified – if at all – only if they are the only way to prevent a comparably grave evil.

"There are, in the body politic, economic and social, many and grave evils, and there is urgent necessity for the sternest war upon them," he said.

Racial discrimination in voting is "one of the gravest evils that Congress can seek to redress," Judge David Tatel wrote in a crucial ruling on Friday upholding the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act.

No graver evils are produced that overshadow the evil to be eliminated.

For at least one priest, Kmiec's support for a pro-choice politician made him a willing participant in a grave moral evil.

"No one who thinks using a condom constitutes a grave moral evil can be taken seriously as an expert on the world's problems".