Sentence examples for unjust orders from inspiring English sources

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The king's real intentions are unclear; perhaps Polybius was right that he wished to make the Romans "more cautious about delivering harsh and unjust orders to Macedonians".

It should be noted, however, that although Socrates refused to carry out unjust orders, he did serve the state in battle.

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Lying to the church authorities, in these conditions, is a bit like disobeying an unjust order.

Omar Barghouti, a founder of the movement, insists that B.D.S. does not threaten Israel's survival but rather its "unjust order".

The Allstate plaintiffs -- who were highly compensated and are overwhelmingly white and male -- do not look like typical victims of an unjust order.

The perfected assured them that the present unjust order was soon to end and that the rule of men on earth was to be replaced by a universal Daoist imperium.

With the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916, in which the great powers decided how to divide the lands of the crumbling Ottoman empire, Syria's borders were redrawn by imperialists to manifest an inherently unjust order; today's partition scenarios look even worse.

"Liberia is the voluntary continuation of a slave society by slaves who did not wish to abolish an unjust order, but wanted to preserve it, develop it and exploit it for their own benefit," he writes of the country created in the 19th century by American campaigners against slavery.

The perpetrators and some of those sympathetic to their cause claimed those acts were nevertheless morally legitimate, whether as retribution (exacted on the assumption that no member of the ruling class was innocent) or as a means necessary for the overthrow of the unjust order.

But in an ideal world, they would side with justice in both cases: they'd accept that they should no longer benefit from the old unjust order, but they'd also assert their rights against the new injustice that deprives them of their fair shot at the American dream.

Conversely, second- and third-generation defenders often look upon first-generation rights, at least as commonly practiced, as insufficiently attentive to material especially "basic"—human needs and, indeed, as being instruments in service to unjust social orders, hence constituting a "bourgeois illusion".

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