Sentence examples for wrong relatives from inspiring English sources

Weinberg was not only a foreigner and Jewish, but also carried the lethal stigma of having acquired the wrong relatives.

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"When we investigated one particular claim we looked at four samples, and found three [of these four] bodies had been handed to the wrong relatives … so you can understand how far misidentification is possible," he told the Guardian.

Distrust of the authorities also underlies a plan to develop a DNA database of the relatives, with a newly created NGO called Citizen Forensic Science, designed to guard against the authorities prematurely closing cases by handing over the wrong bodies to the wrong relatives.

The relativist proposal is that we must never talk simply about what's right or wrong, but only about what's "right or wrong relative to a particular moral code".

The trouble is that while "Eating beef is wrong" is clearly a normative statement, "Eating beef is wrong relative to the moral code of the Hindus" is just a descriptive remark that carries no normative import whatsoever.

We can see this from the fact that anyone, regardless of their views about eating beef, can agree that eating beef is wrong relative to the moral code of the Hindus.

But in truth, sentencing is more often about wrong and wrong, relative crimes and comparative punishments, the sins of Jamie Olis (who got 25 years) versus those of his co-workers (who could get 5 years), the sins of Mr. Embezzler versus those of the kids from Newark.

An action may be right relative to one agreement and wrong relative to another (this combines agent and appraisal relativism insofar as Harman assumes that the person making the judgment and the person to whom the judgment is addressed are both parties to the agreement).

In the case where one focuses only upon a single action whose known wrongmaking properties outweigh its known rightmaking properties, the result is as one would expect, namely, that the probability that the action in question is not morally wrong relative to the totality of its morally significant properties, both known and unknown, must be less than one half.

A small black or white square appeared after every response to indicate whether the response was "right" or "wrong" relative to an arbitrary physical criterion.