Sentence examples for misdeeds against from inspiring English sources

But the reality is that sponsorship is often intended not as atonement for misdeeds against nature, but as a distraction from them.

This self-image, along with lingering anti-Semitism, has dominated the public response to past revelations about Polish misdeeds against the Jews.

At a ceremony marking the 175th anniversary of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the agency's director apologized for its "legacy of misdeeds" against American Indians.

These acts were only rarely considered to be misdeeds against a god or violations of moral principles of divine origin, and the consciousness of guilt was much rarer than the fear of the evil consequences of sin, such as disease or untimely death.

More than 100 years later, in 1979, the United States Court of Claims, discussing the federal government's misdeeds against the Sioux, including its tactic of starving them, before it appropriated the land, wrote that "a more ripe and rank case of dishonorable dealing will never, in all probability, be found in our history".

The Holy See, above all, would like to convey full solidarity with the bishops of the United States in their firm condemnation of sexual misdeeds against minors and is deeply concerned about the distressing situation that has arisen in recent months in the church in the United States.

There are those misdeeds committed against organizations, and there are those committed on their behalf.

He asked forgiveness for the misdeeds of Catholics against the Greek Orthodox Church in Athens last Friday.

One of the big effects of the new legislation will be to raise the price of insurance covering to protect companies and investors against misdeeds by directors and officers, policies that are customarily purchased by the companies themselves, said John H. Treiber, the president of the commercial lines division of the Treiber Group, an insurance company in Garden City.

No one, it seems, is truly safe from manipulation, not even Thomas, not even the lovely Lady Lydia, for the supernatural is not nearly as horrific as the misdeeds of man against man.

We need to reinvent a system of immigration justice that grants fair, speedy hearings, free from prolonged incarceration, where an immigration judge can exercise common sense that balances a person's misdeeds, if any, against his positive contributions to the community.