Sentence examples for unjust action from inspiring English sources

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This is an unjust action against a great person and one of the best journalists in the world.

But if the rules end up having the opposite effect, or permitting unjust action, we recognise that they are wrong and change them.

For such a supposition implies that one could not consent to another's unjust action since of course one cannot give another a right to act unjustly, but of course people can and do often consent to another's unjust action.

It does not matter, Grotius complained, what moves someone to act unjustly — the only thing that matters is that unjust action violates the rights of others.

If it is, there will be features of the situation that require it of us; perhaps we owe an enormous debt of gratitude, or perhaps by this unjust action we can save Holland from flooding.

The result is that justice is defined as primarily a condition of one's soul or city as a whole, not as any specific just action; yet if the soul or city is so ordered, the individual will have no cause to engage in the paradigmatically unjust action of pleonexia or grasping for more than one's fair share.

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Alwadaei said: "If Prince Charles does not want to be affiliated with dictatorship and authoritarianism, he must speak out against Bahrain's unjust actions".

"It was my dream and now it is erased," said Hadija Saker, 55, who ticked off the evidence, as she saw it, of Israel's unjust actions.

Facebook is perilously close to allowing "freedom of speech" to be used as a defense of unjust actions that are clearly intimidating and silencing female users.

Our fight to promote the democratic system in China rests on three premises: to analyze the unjust actions of the government, to publicize them, and to act to defend human rights and democracy.

When the prophet Nathan came to David and told him of a rich man's unjust actions toward a poor man, David's response was one of anger and a demand for justice, whereupon Nathan said, "You are the man," and that Yahweh would exact retribution by not allowing the child to live.

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