Sentence examples for profound wrong from inspiring English sources

"We are rightly proud of the role Britain played in righting a profound wrong.

And, since only in the city of god is mankind perfectible, the attempt of the secular authority – the governors of the city of man – to impose a specious perfection upon citizens is a profound wrong".

It was, he said, "a day to remember all those who lost their lives" on both sides as well as to "salute the heroism of the task force" sent to correct a "profound wrong".

Mr Cameron saluted the "heroism" of the soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines who took part in the operation which freed the islanders from Argentine rule and said the UK played a role in "righting a profound wrong".

For example, driven by her view that the "don't ask; don't tell" policy adopted by a Democrat Congress and President Clinton is "a profound wrong -- a moral injustice of the first order," she argued that it violates the First Amendment for the United States to withhold funds from colleges that ban the military from recruiting on campus.

"It was a way to ensure that the readers of the Telegraph and the broader British public were able to find out about the profound wrong-doing in the House of Commons and how MPs had stolen from the taxpayer".

Accordingly, she contends that "[i]f one focuses on discrimination as the primary wrong that groups suffer, then the more profound wrongs of exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, and violence that we still suffer go undiscussed and unaddressed".

At the same time, Young is right insofar as she is claiming that exploitation, powerlessness, and her other profound wrongs do not necessarily have a component involving direct discrimination.

When the pedophilia scandal broke in January, the cardinal dealt with it as a matter for damage control rather than a profound moral wrong.

Genocide is a profound moral wrong; but it is not corruption.

Accordingly, the idea of discrimination can capture the profound systemic wrongs to which Young refers, while preserving the key moral thought that the wrongs are done to individuals.