Sentence examples similar to political wrong from inspiring English sources

His art has changed the world mightily, and not just in righting political wrongs.

We don't know yet how the brothers, who have moved around quite a bit in their short lives, became infected with the idea that violence against unrelated innocents could possibly fix whatever personal and political wrongs they faced.

Rebels typically claim that they are fighting their governments to right religious, ethnic and political wrongs, it says, but it suggests that those are often either coincidental or ex post facto justifications for war.

Dramaturgically speaking, the play is both ambitious and disingenuous; it's like a charming, and charmless, Hope-Crosby road movie, with Hanks as Bob and Vance as Bing, two jocular American buddies travelling around the world, righting political wrongs, while talking to the camera, singing a few songs, and falling in love with Dorothy Lamour.

As the recent case of Augusto Pinochet demonstrates, the question of retribution and reparation for past political wrongs continues to bedevil the collective conscience, which is one reason why Alice Kaplan's clear-headed study of the case of Robert Brasillach in France has a good deal of current-day relevance.

"If they are not executed immediately, persons held accountable for major political wrongs are forcibly disappeared to political prison camps that officially do not exist.

"Suspects of major political wrongs may find themselves in a detention interrogation centre anywhere from a few days to six months or more," it said.

And in greater part because the horror of Bush policies was so great, they morphed Obama into the near mythical man on the white horse who could magically right all political wrongs.

Writing in the Washington Post, Jane Smiley called Sex, Mom and God "laugh out loud funny" and her review concluded like this: "Frank has been straightforward and entertaining in his campaign to right the political wrongs he regrets committing in the 1970s and '80s.

But the Orangemen also got their political calculations wrong.

In his first month in the White House he has not put a political foot wrong.