Sentence examples for public wrong from inspiring English sources

To achieve that end, an act of violence was made a public wrong punishable by the state.

Moreover, the lawyers argued, guilt can only be established in a criminal contempt case by actions that amounted to "a public wrong against the court," not against others.

Over the last decade, victims of criminal acts have been allowed to take part in various ways in the criminal justice system, and their involvement has shown that public wrong and private injury cannot be completely separated.

An act harmless when done by one may become a public wrong when done by many, acting in concert, for it then takes on the form of a conspiracy, and may be prohibited or punished, if the result be hurtful to the public, or to the individual against whom the concerted action is directed.

But what is to count as a public harm, or public wrong?

Now it's up to Eddie Howe and his boys to prove the great British public wrong.

Mr. Nicholson, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, responded to that finding, in a New York Times/CBS News Poll in May, by saying the public was "wrong, wrong, wrong".

The failure to follow up very public wrong-doing not just phone hacking and discipline the perpetrators that should have some resonance as well".

This use of the injunction had long been available to private parties, but Brewer expanded its use to protect public rights and to punish public wrongs.

In distinguishing between private and public wrongs (civil injuries and crimes) he failed to understand the true principle of the division.

Perhaps the years have also been kind: as crimes go, having your private life raked over by the tabloid press, leading to the attendant public wronging of Cheryl Cole, is perhaps not quite as heinous as it once appeared.