Sentence examples for unreasonable act from inspiring English sources

There is a basic principle of law that imposes liability when someone's unreasonable act results in foreseeable harm to someone else.

If one were, for example, to regulate one's pursuit of a greater good in light of a lesser good — if, for example, one were to seek friendship with God for the sake of mere bodily survival rather than vice versa — that would count as an unreasonable act.

Although it is vitally important to remember that a good prince does not manipulate, nor violate, and definitely does not require the princess to perform an unreasonable act, such as kissing a frog.

It wasn't until I was sat in the court that I learned the definition of breach of the peace used in my judicial review was not that the police anticipated we would breach the peace, but that we would provoke "not wholly unreasonable acts of violence" from royalists.

Senator Richard Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, has introduced a sound bill — called the Protecting Consumers From Unreasonable Credit Rates Act — that would rein in excessive and unfair charges for credit card and other loans.

Even the greats, like Mother Teresa, had to have enough compassion for their "unreasonable" desires to act on them before gaining agreement.

Sometimes, unreasonable people only act the way they do to get a reaction, and you're playing into their hands, which is what they want.

The media regulator intervened after BT complained that Sky had acted "unreasonable and discriminatory" in negotiations over the wholesale supply of Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 to the fledgling YouView internet-connected TV service.

The great danger, though, about predictions of energy independence is that policy makers who act on unreasonable optimism about the nation's energy future could do major damage.

Mrs Justice Patterson ruled there had been a "breach of duty on the part of the secretary of state to act without unreasonable delay in determination of the claimant's claims for Pip".

Allison added: "Mr Jahnke's behaviour in shouting and blowing a whistle may have started off as lawful protest but when he threw his shoe it became unreasonable behaviour and an act of aggression".