Sentence examples for greater wrong for from inspiring English sources
The passionate indignation with which he lied was (in my opinion) rooted in a conviction that it would be a greater wrong for his nomination to be rejected on account of some boorish but judicially irrelevant private behavior than for him to defend himself by indulging in a bit of, to use a stock phrase from a later scandal, lying about sex.
In the case of danger to a mother's life, abortion is thought to be wrong, but it is a greater wrong for a fetus to be the cause of a mother's death.
The caretakers said that committing the same wrong again was an even greater wrong.
We stopped a greater wrong, we said.
Some of them became "wrongs," while others became "greater wrongs".
So all-pervasive and ingrained was their sense of obedience that the greatest wrong was to think for themselves.
Inside the building, some Caribbean leaders have used their annual General Assembly speaking slots to call for financial compensation for this great wrong.
He had come to apologise "for the great wrong which had been done" by his grandfather.
He had come to apologise for the "great wrong" done by his grandfather.
His request was granted and he apologised for the "great wrong done by my grandfather" when he had insisted that the trespassers be sent to prison.
"Put this great wrong right.
