Sentence examples for wrong committed by from inspiring English sources

They say it would ease traffic, improve neighborhood life and right a decades-old wrong committed by the master planner Robert Moses of building an unnecessary highway.

Nor does California law govern a dispute involving an alleged wrong committed by one Indian citizen against another Indian citizen, in India".

The Washington Post said the book was an investigation of "a social wrong committed by the medical establishment" [ 14]. Britain's The Independent on Sunday described the book as "a case study of race and medical ethics, of the problems that plague black society…" [ 15].

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.

I believe the motive is revenge for a host of wrongs committed by Pittsburgh's one percent, though I have no information that the Occupy movement is responsible.

Also named is Chief Esposito, the highest-ranking uniformed officer in the Police Department, who was present during the arrests and who, the suit said, "failed to remedy the wrongs committed by the police officers".

"Chosen trauma," were the words the political psychiatrist Vamik Volkan used to described the way nations, as well as individuals, can seize upon a wrong done to them to the exclusion of any wrongs committed by themselves.

"Whilst the criminal justice process cannot put right the wrongs committed by these individuals, we hope that the victims will take some solace in knowing that their abusers have been brought to justice.

This week Pope John Paul II, preparing to apologise publicly for past wrongs committed by the church, has found himself embroiled in a controversy over the kidnapping of a child which took place more than 140 years ago.

A strong advocate of the right to self-government might retort that rewarding certain children for the wrongs committed by their parents, in this case illegal immigration, by legalizing undocumented youths is illogical as well as immoral and that "the right thing to do" would be to deport all undocumented migrants – parents and children alike.

MADRID — A high-profile judge on Tuesday dropped a sensitive inquiry into atrocities that took place during the era of Franco, Spain's former dictator, ending what had promised to be the first criminal investigation of wrongs committed by Franco and his allies.