Sentence examples for prevent evil from inspiring English sources

Some say special regulations are needed to prevent "evil practices" like human cloning.

"There's nothing you're going to do to prevent evil from occurring," said Rep. Virginia Foxx, a Republican of North Carolina.

But here on earth, as President Kennedy suggested, we human beings are responsible -- and must act to prevent evil.

The problem was stated most succinctly two centuries later, by David Hume: "Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able?

Yes, sometimes vigilantism saves the day; sometimes people working on the outskirts of the law can protect those of us who live within it; sometimes the law itself can prevent evil men from gaining the tools to wreak destruction.

The notion of an omnipotent, benevolent Creator is addressed as a contradiction: if God cannot prevent evil, then He is not omnipotent; if He is omnipotent, then the evil is of His making too.

By the time evil was ready to lay claim to the masses, therefore, the very question of whether thinking, as such, could prevent evil-doing had ceased to make much sense.

But Moore defined the virtues instrumentally, as traits that cause goods and prevent evils, and said that as such they lack intrinsic worth (Principia Ethica 220 26).

For if we do not understand evil we will be ill-equipped to root out its sources, and thus, we will be unable to prevent evils from occurring in the future.

They allege that the system distorts justice, preventing evil people from getting their just deserts.

"We will have an Islamic state here that mainly orders good and prevents evil," Mr. Zubaidi said.