Sentence examples for violation of justice from inspiring English sources

If some States contribute their quotas and others do not, justice is violated; the violation of justice is the ground of disputes among States as well as among individuals; and as among the latter they produce an appeal to the law, so among the former they produce an appeal to the sword.

"In this age which boasts of its atomic power," John wrote in his 1963 encyclical, "Pacem in Terris," "it no longer makes sense to maintain that war is a fit instrument with which to repair the violation of justice".

Such an action would, according to common intuitions, constitute a gross violation of justice; and it seems a weak reply to point out that the recommendation was arrived at through an impartial calculation — a calculation that took the interests of every individual (including the framed man) into equal account.

Arguably this view was held by Kant (1797: 142) who wrote that if a people do not insist on the execution of murderers, "blood guilt" would "cling" to them "as collaborators in this public violation of justice"—though this text might better be read as an assertion that the people have an obligation to do justice, not for the victim, but for the integrity of the law (see Hill 1999: 443).

In glaring violation of justice, in shameless disregard of the forms of administering law, in cunning arrangement to entrap the defenseless, and in diabolical intent, this Fugitive Slave Law stands alone in the annals of tyrannical legislation.

Ironically, losing to Khadr in court and eating a $20 million loss might have been less costly for the Liberals than their attempt to proactively save some money (or amend the gross violation of justice that has characterized most of Khadr's life in custody).

Several substantive ethical objections have been raised against HGGM including claims of unacceptably high levels of risk, damage to the status of future persons, and violations of justice and autonomy.

But, without raising its voice, the show leaves you shocked at the violations of justice committed in the name of freedom.

In an encyclical released in November titled Saved by Hope, Pope Benedict XVI declared that atheism "has led to the greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice" ever known.

But the attempt to banish God, he wrote, "has led to the greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice," whether through Marxist revolution or the science that produced the atomic bomb.

In primitive or simple societies, there may always be reasons of prudence to act justly with respect to the property of others: violations of justice are always likely to be detected by others and to lead to consequences one would prefer to avoid.