Sentence examples for unjust from inspiring English sources

As the press revelled in wild tales of high-society scandal and political cover-ups, Edgecombe started serving a sentence that he always viewed as unjust.

"I'm in no way advocating an unjust quota system, but it's not good enough to have one woman in the federal cabinet".

The London-based human rights campaigner, Peter Tatchell, said the Kuwaiti proposal was unjust and discriminatory towards transgender people.

"The unjust distribution of good persists, creating a situation of social sin that cries out to heaven and limits the possibilities of a fuller life for so many of our brothers".

He denounced the government's current approach to detaining failed asylum seekers as "inefficient, unjust and expensive" and said reform was urgently needed.

If it's the laws that are unjust, or the actions of authority figures or police, it makes sense to address them with civil disobedience – declining to abide within an unfair system.

At the Young Vic this summer, BFT will be performing a new piece, Red Forest, featuring real-life stories from people living in war zones, in dictatorships and in unjust and unequal societies across the globe.

Typically, the mechanisms involved include retribution against perpetrators through the criminal justice system, and reparations to victims, including the return of property, financial compensation for suffering, or symbolic gestures such as overturning unjust convictions – as well as simply saying sorry.

As such, it left largely untouched an unjust and inequitable economic and social system.

"We finished seven points clear of Leeds, so to go out on away goals to them means there is something unjust," bemoaned Oldham boss Joe Royle.

A recent all-party inquiry described the practice of indefinite detention as "expensive, unnecessary and unjust".