Sentence examples for major evil from inspiring English sources

Now, with Washington fixed on international terrorism as the major evil in the world, Mr. Hussein faces demands that he produce by today a full accounting of his presumed arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, or face the full brunt of American anger.

Prior to this morning, it had been heartening to see such measured discussion on the concept of Page 3. In a polite Channel 4 debate on Tuesday between herself, Harriet Harman and glamour model Chloe Goodman, Germaine Greer said she'd never been one of the people who thought Page 3 was a major evil.

But the major evils protected against by the speedy trial guarantee exist quite apart from actual or possible prejudice to an accused's defense.

Historically, one of the major evils sought to be allayed by the development of the privilege was the use of torture to extract a confession, 9 not the subsequent use of the confession in a criminal trial.

'(T he major evils protected against by the speedy trial guarantee exist quite apart from actual or possible prejudice to an accused's defense.' United States v. Marion, supra, at 320, 92 S.Ct., at 963.

Last week, we considered Russell's commitment to individual freedom and his critique of oppressive social structures – views which led him to argue that "the cramping of love by institutions is one of the major evils of the world".

It means to firmly believe that it is through the inconceivable power of the Vow that evil men encumbered with the Ten Major Evils and the Five Cardinal Sins, and even people inherent of the Five Obstacles and the Three Reliance's will all receive deliverance.

This stance would be neither the "containment" nor the "rollback" posture implied by Eberstadt's analogy to Communism, but something like what various Victorian reformers offered to their industrializing society: A promise that the changes ushered in by factories and mills and steam engines were not all a package deal, and that certain gains could be preserved even as major evils were addressed.

In 1849 Titus Salt, then Mayor of Bradford, commissioned a Report into the Moral Condition of Bradford which concluded that alcoholism and venereal disease ranked along side tuberculosis as the three major evils, to an extent even greater than smallpox.

Over-scheduling and under-scheduling are the two major evils of a family vacation.

On a day in which Dustin Johnson sampled this major's evil side, Phil Mickelson triggered shockwaves throughout the golfing world.