Sentence examples for treat wrongdoing from inspiring English sources

Morgan's tendency to treat wrongdoing as a joke has got him into trouble – and possibly out of it again – several times during his career, nearly all catalogued by this paper.

We can indeed take steps such as curbing the militarization of police, and eliminating double standards under which the criminal justice system treats wrongdoing by police far more leniently than similar violence by civilians.

They can then hold, roughly, that a wrongdoer cannot reasonably complain that institutions that threaten proportional punishment if he does wrong, and then follow through on the threat if he is duly convicted of wrongdoing, treat him unjustly (Quinn 1985; Hill 1999; Finkelstein 2004; Bedau and Kelly 2010: §4).

A MoD spokesman said: "The MoD treats allegations of wrongdoing in Iraq extremely seriously.

The committee, long criticized for lacking teeth and as failing to treat accusations of Congressional wrongdoing with urgency, is scheduled to have its initial meeting on the Foley controversy on Thursday.

This incentive is undesirable in a scheme with overlapping forms of liability that is meant to treat most cases of wrongdoing civilly and to reserve the criminal remedy for the few most serious institutional delicts.

For a while any suggestion of potential wrongdoing was treated as taboo and other players pointed out that they passed every drugs test that they underwent during that era.

In an age in which government officials accused of wrongdoing are treated with general leniency, while the average citizen is prosecuted to the full extent of the law, jury nullification is a powerful reminder that, as the Constitution tells us, "we the people" are the government.

And some philosophers note that it may be more respectful to judge someone's actions or character negatively or to punish someone for wrongdoing than to treat them as if they were not responsible for what they did, although requirements of respect would impose limits on how such judgments may be expressed and how persons may be punished.

Their case is a timely reminder that those who peacefully protest and otherwise stand up to wrongdoing should not be treated so poorly by the authorities.

– Columbia Journalism Review To treat as criminals those who expose criminal wrongdoing is policing gone mad.