Now, settlements of that kind were the work of people of high religious principle, and they would have taken no pleasure at all in watching this unoffending stranger tear his beard and throw his hat at the ground.
By contrast, he says a great deal about Athens's expedition in 416 against ostensibly unoffending Melos.
On martyred children (1963): Given at the funeral of children who died in the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, a turning point in the civil rights movement): "These children - unoffending, innocent, and beautiful - were the victims of one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity.
Wars and political chicanery, violence, double-dealing and betrayal, all swirl around his unoffending head.
There is justification for this reluctance to utter unpopular opinions: the cost of utterance is too heavy; it can ruin a man in his business, it can lose him his friends, it can subject him to public insult and abuse, it can ostracize his unoffending family, and make his house a despised and unvisited solitude.
(In Chapter 7 of "The Pickwick Papers," Mr. Tupman, during a rook shoot, "had saved the lives of innumerable unoffending birds by receiving a portion of the charge in his left arm").
This week, Eric Holder, the Attorney General, announced, essentially by executive decree, that the Obama Administration would no longer enforce the standing rules on mandatory-minimum sentencing for drug offenders — at least, not for otherwise unoffending individuals.
In addition to plundering the farms of suspected rebels (and a number of unoffending Unionists), the Jayhawkers also burned the village of Morristown, where they captured 10 Confederate prisoners and executed five of them after a hasty drumhead court martial.
He would later characterize impressment as a "mode of stealing and robbing from peaceful and unoffending and in many cases unsuspecting citizens" engendered by an "evil spirit".
Scott's footnote to this letter read: The really ludicrous position is the Mr Lloyd George is fighting to enfranchise seven million women and the militants are smashing unoffending people's windows and breaking up benevolent societies' meetings in a desperate effort to prevent him.
