Sentence examples for wrong committed from inspiring English sources

Removing those opportunities today in the name of a wrong committed 150 years ago is regressive and does nothing to absolve blame from those long dead who perpetrated them.

The long-awaited decision – expected to cause enormous disappointment – follows more than 40 years of campaigning, court cases and calls for the UK to right a wrong committed by Harold Wilson's Labour government.

Punishment is the intentional infliction of harm or suffering on a wrongdoer in response to a wrong committed.

To salvage a wee bit of its tattered honor, the Navy would be wise to right this wrong committed against Rear Admiral McVay (while in the grade of captain) before Congress does the deed itself.

In holding the inter-disciplinary symposium, Emory University acted to "right a wrong committed a century ago by revisiting the 'Sledd affair' and reflecting on its meaning for Emory today".

It would be easy to blame Alex for the chaos that exploded into our lives, but blame assumes a wrong committed, and I don't think Alex did anything wrong.

The 1789 law, which was passed by the first Congress and initially used in cases of piracy and stolen goods, states that federal courts shall have jurisdiction over wrongs "committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States".

It has, over its notorious history, housed far too many people who did nothing wrong or committed truly minor offenses.

"I was wrong and committed errors, faults even, but I was serious and efficient at work and the fact my bosses protected me and I was promoted during my short career shows this," he wrote in his recently published book, The Spiral: Memories of a Trader.

To its credit, when it made its own mistakes in Boston, it admitted it, apologized, said what had gone wrong, and committed to doing its best to avoid the problem in the future.

Yet similar forecasts were made for Thailand and Brazil and were proved wrong, thanks to committed intervention.