Sentence examples for rectify a wrong from inspiring English sources
If you do interfere, you actually save the weakest –- it's a bigger picture that we observe largely and participate [in] only if we need to rectify a wrong.
As Allen Buchanan, a Duke University philosopher, has argued, the right to secede is a "remedial right only" — a way of rectifying a wrong.
In baad, however, a female from the wrongdoer's family is promised for marriage to a male from the victim's family as a 'truce.' Baad, in other words, is an alliance that is forged as a way of rectifying a wrong and ensuring shared interests and cooperation over generations.
On behalf of perhaps as many as half a million Native Americans, Ms. Cobell has filed a class-action suit challenging the Interior and Treasury Departments to rectify a collective wrong that is more than a century old.
The Senate has a chance to do what the House did last summer and rectify a great wrong.
Even if the constituency is trying to right a wrong or rectify a disadvantage.
The Voting Rights Act was signed into law 50 years ago to rectify a "clear and simple wrong".
We acted quickly to rectify a situation where we were wrong, and we turned it around as quickly as possible".
Andrew Gorlin, M.D. Hilo, Hawaii, Aug. 21, 2007 To the Editor: It's great to read that Medicare will create incentives for hospitals to avoid errors, but simply refusing to pay for care given to rectify a mistake is an incentive in the wrong form.
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In doing so, policymakers can rectify a half-century of misguided policy and unsustainable development.
