Sentence examples for minor evil from inspiring English sources

There was an unwritten rule that state policies aimed at the cultural assimilation of minorities should be ignored as the "minor evil" with regard to the rights enshrined in the Minority Treaties when those policies were seen as guaranteeing the internal stability of the state concerned.

Overcrowding in the dressing-rooms is a minor evil.

The encouraging factor is the growing consensus among the Gulf states to root out this (minor) evil.

Expected or not, these minor evils would not make much of a case against the existence of God.

One kind of reply to the objection given is to argue that the objector has taken the data of the argument from evil – typically horrendous evils – and replaced them with some relatively minor evils.

Evil, evil, evil.

But opponents say expensing options is a minor form of evil.

This perverse notion of how prisons should be run, that they should be full at all times, and full of minor criminals, is evil.

Sexual abuse of minors is an evil and, as one priest told the board, knowingly allowing evil conduct to continue is "cooperation with evil".

The villain in question is Gru, a slightly undercooked Count Orlok type who uses his considerable power for, if not evil, then minor works of inconvenience.

It is not hard to come up with examples in which A loves B so much that A is prepared to do bad things to a third party, C, in order to benefit A. Such cases range from minor wrongdoing to serious evil.