Sentence examples for unjust amount from inspiring English sources

Under a New Deal-era law, power companies can be forced to pay refunds if they have charged an "unreasonable and unjust" amount for electricity.

But because cheetahs hunt by day and live on farmlands, they were bearing an unjust amount of blame, simply because they were more visible to humans.

Though we later pursued a civil suit, it dragged on for so many years that my mother eventually settled for a woefully unjust amount, but not before she lost her house.

Our Congress and state governments must recognize that whether it's five years or 15 years, these are unjust amounts of time for any child to wait for health care, and such restrictions must be removed.

It also gives a similar justification: "[I]t would be unjust that the amount which [the testator] has destined to that end should revert to the heirs.

They are charged with four counts of crimes against humanity: willful murder, persecution, torture and what amounts to unjust imprisonment.

"The Iraqi victims of these unjust and unrestricted sanctions amounted to more than a million children, women and elderly people during the past 10 years," Iraq's deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz, told a summit meeting of world leaders last week.

To be sentenced under unjust laws to a tremendous amount of time is unconscionable.

On a voice vote, the Senate added the disability provision, saying it was unjust to cut retirement pay by the amounts paid for disabilities.

Speaking after the arraignment, defence lawyer James Connell said the behaviour of the five defendants had amounted to "peaceful resistance to an unjust system".

In fact, one can argue that the treatment of gays and lesbians is an injustice to them as individuals and amounts to a systemic pattern of unjust disadvantage.