Sentence examples for we perpetrate from inspiring English sources

Jane Austen (if not a perfectionist, then at least a stickler for decorum) often wrote about the "horrible blunders" we perpetrate on one another by being outspoken.

But we perpetrate these myths, and whenever the truth becomes unavoidable, we shame the mother instead of looking at the situation honestly.

This is a huge fraud we perpetrate upon the American people.

The violence that we perpetrate on one another with handguns is more than 30 times as deadly than the attacks of Al Qaeda and the Taliban combined!

And it is the cry of those who believe, with passion and a life's commitment, that we will end not simply the current bloody, pointless wars in Central Asia and the Middle East, but war itself, and the addictive logic that fools us into thinking that the violence we perpetrate is the good kind, because it takes out evil.

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest provides a good example of how we twist the truth to minimize the offenses we perpetrate and exaggerate the affronts we face as we debate LGBT rights and religious freedom.

What, in fact, had we perpetrated here today?

… What had we perpetrated here today?" Yizhar is hardly, to use Jabobson's words, "punishing Jews with their own grief", or "cancelling out all debts of guilt and sorrow".

"We must perpetrate the paradox that our American cultural tradition lies in the future," he wrote.

The miracle of lemonade is perhaps that the sugar we've inherited - our addiction to a heartless materialism that demands militarism, systems of debt, abusive labor practices, prisons, and, yes, the crimes those we love perpetrate against us - might be redeemed by the harsh juice of lemons.

We just can't because, numbed though we may be, somewhere inside we understand what we are perpetrating.