Sentence examples for past ills from inspiring English sources

The fashionable justification is that affirmative action is no longer making amends for past ills but instead creating diversity.

"We shall seek to remedy past ills lastingly and offer solutions that bite and important improvements that take effect without further ado.

"At no point in this country's history has there been greater pressure from the public to rectify things and correct past ills".

Clearly the consensus is that Colon's ability to perform on a high level at a high age with a high weight and a wide smile cancels out past ills.

Meanwhile the left, with their need to feel guilty for the past ills done to black people, exalted those who told them how bad they were and how they need to be trained to manage black people.

In a last, almost melodramatic twist, when Chapman stitches the plot together with rather excessive zeal, there's a suggestion that revenge may yet be sought for past ills, for bad lovers, male doctors and their miracle cures, male idiocy and male arrogance.

Indians still command great sympathy because of their past ill-treatment and the poverty in which many still live.

He is also traumatised and hysterical, like a child in a violent tantrum, when he recalls his past ill-treatment.

Its function as protective infrastructure has been degraded by the erosion caused by past ill-advised government groin and inlet stabilization projects.

Worse, in the past, ill-conceived designs, safety scares and the regulatory delays they gave rise to made nuclear plants even more costly than their hefty price-tags suggest.

John B. Bellinger III, who, as the National Security Council's top lawyer, played a role in discussions when the program was approved in 2002, by the next year had begun to research past ill-fated British and Israeli use of torture and grew doubtful about the wisdom of the techniques.