Sentence examples for wrongful act from inspiring English sources

'wrongful act' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used to refer to an act that is illegal and/or morally wrong. For example: "The company was sued for negligence in a wrongful act lawsuit."

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'Abd al-Jabbar defines a wrongful act as one that deserves blame, and holds that the right and wrong character of acts is known immediately to human reason, independently of revelation.

The judge said Mr. Hayashi "committed no wrongful act".

Damages, in law, money compensation for loss or injury caused by the wrongful act of another.

(A tort is any wrongful act not involving a breach of contract for which a civil suit can be brought).

"Impeachment focuses not on the nature of the wrongful act itself, but on the effects that the wrongful act has on the public office or on the public trust," Mr. Reich said.

"There is no wrongful act committed by me, nor are there any suspicions that I have misused public money".

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Almost without exception, public companies agree to indemnify executives for wrongful acts not committed in bad faith.

"Very often a shareholder does not know of any specific wrongful acts, but sues anyway," he said.

She said Trinity "deeply regrets the wrongful acts" and would not do the same in the future.

The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform.

Unfortunately, wrongful acts such as authorizing the 2010 Stuxnet attack against Iran have set a bad, and dangerous, precedent in breach of certain principles of international law.

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