Sentence examples for the wrong to from inspiring English sources

And so, on this analysis, China does have a legitimate basis for its claim; the area is "in dispute", and the Philippines would be in the wrong to pursue hydrocarbon exploration unilaterally.

Known for his sharp-elbowed campaigning, the mogul announced: "We'll get revenge" – the wrong to be righted being the Academy's failure this year to recognise Gyllenhaal's turn in Nightcrawler.

Speaking to the Guardian, Crick said he had been in the wrong to do the broadcast and said he had privately apologised to the former London mayor and his staff.

If Therese were some thrifty guy, toiling in a garage, you could bet that his fling with a rich and jobless dame would be taut with unease; think of Montgomery Clift, in "A Place in the Sun" (1951), shifting from the wrong to the right side of the tracks and finding Elizabeth Taylor.

It's unclear why the punishment should rise above some baseline-level, in proportion with the gravity of the wrong, to show that "we mean it".

But if A refuses to hire B solely because of B's race, then it would be odd to say that A exploits B, for A does not gain from the wrong to B. Consider abuse.

"I think this is the wrong to-do list, big time".

It took decades for the wrongs to be acknowledged.

Was the executive wrong to take the box to work?

That is the wrong message to send to the world.

"It was completely the wrong thing to say to us".