Sentence examples for vicious action from inspiring English sources

"We believe this vicious action will not spoil our sporting friendship with Tottenham and football aficionados in Great Britain.

This irrational vicious action undermined work that had been done during the day by Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul, as leaders of the Congress Party, to push the government into positive action and dialogue with representatives of the protestors.

An ugly object or vicious action feels odious, disagreeable, and undesirable.

Insufficient heat will lead to inaction, and excessive heat will lead to vicious action.

Seneca aims to make some of his points by contrasting the beauty of nature's workings with the ugliness of vicious action.

And in letters to disturbed readers in 1946 and 1965, she denied that the scene is "actual rape" which, she stated, is "a dreadful crime," a "vicious action and a violation of a woman's rights" (Rand 1995a).

The thing is, we went into Iraq saying Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, and then we said it was because of a vicious dictatorship, but, if my constituents see vicious actions between the people we are supposed to have freed, it becomes very difficult for me".

Regarding the article "As Obama tries to play down Russian spy scandal, others call it a warning" (July 2): Whether it was America's vicious actions against Serbia to break up Yugoslavia, support for the Georgian dictator Mikheil Saakashvili, or NATO's encroachment and efforts to install an anti-missile "shield" on Russia's borders, Russia has many reasons to be wary of the United States.

But to Franklin, ethics were a means of achieving happiness: "Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden," he wrote, "but forbidden because they are hurtful, the nature of man alone considered; that it was therefore everyone's interest to be virtuous who wished to be happy".

Joseph Butler, in his well-known sermon "On Self-Deceit", emphasizes the ways in which self-deception about one's moral character and conduct, 'self-ignorance' driven by inordinate 'self-love', not only facilitates vicious actions but hinders the agent's ability to change by obscuring them from view.

However, unfortunately, it's become worse since the Tsarnaev brothers' vicious actions.