Sentence examples for is to commit a from inspiring English sources

To expect morality in the market is to commit a category error.

"To hold it in a context where some basic fundamental rights are markedly absent, indeed, denied to the population, is to commit a travesty".

Hart uses machine learning to decide how likely a person is to commit a violent or non-violent offence over the next two years.

And almost all the time it tries to envelop existence in one large monochrome blanket, grappling with birth, love, pain, friendship, madness and death in such universal terms that to wallow in a specific tragedy -- and Mr. Taylor has faced many over the years -- is to commit a sin of solipsism.

By E. B. White The New Yorker, April 23 , 1927P. 17 The practice of having murders reported for the newspapers by such people as John Roach Straton, Dorothy Dix, and Maurine Watkins makes us realize that the idea now is to commit a murder worthy of being reported by Fannie Hurst.

"Thou shalt not kill": whether the commandment is seen as coming from God or simply from self-evident moral intuition, few dispute that to kill is to commit a wrong, and that to refrain from killing is to prevent a wrong.

To keep to yourself in Ireland would be to commit a crime.

To make a blanket statement on this would be to commit a pretty foolish error.

The second was to commit a venial sin.

"Their aim was to commit an attack," he said of the women.

You have to be prepared to commit a little more.