Sentence examples for greatest wrong from inspiring English sources

In 1862 the president told a black delegation, "Your race are suffering, in my judgment, the greatest wrong inflicted on any people".

Adventure game fans seem to be funding every project in that area to a high degree (such as Broken Sword) because they feel as though they are righting the greatest wrong in gaming history (to wit: that adventure games fell out of fashion).

So all-pervasive and ingrained was their sense of obedience that the greatest wrong was to think for themselves.

And certainly the greatest wrongs have occurred when racial hostility or contempt has been combined with power.

A18 Yalta Debate Reignited When President Bush declared on May 7 in Latvia that the 1945 Yalta agreement led to "one of the greatest wrongs of history," he reignited an ideological debate from the era of Joseph McCarthy.

But it is increasingly appreciated that many of humanity's greatest wrongs were made possible (and in some cases even perpetrated) by ordinary people who were just not as moral as they might have been. 1 Holocaust historian Christopher Browning entitled his most well-known book about the Final Solution Ordinary Men in order to emphasize this fact.

"Put this great wrong right.

America, Aldous Huxley sniffed, is "The Great Wrong Place".

A great wrong has been done by this movement.

Dickens told a friend afterward that "it is better to suffer a great wrong than to have recourse to the much greater wrong of the law".

The caretakers said that committing the same wrong again was an even greater wrong.