Sentence examples for wrongful by from inspiring English sources

This understanding of human action has often been misappropriated by interpreters who have assumed that when Aquinas says that acts are wrongful by reason of their "undue matter" (indebita materia), he refers to an item of behavior specifiable by its physical characteristics and causal structure.

A society could satisfy the careers open to talents ideal even though the economy is overwhelmingly oriented to satisfying wrongful consumer desires for unhealthy food and cruel sports spectacles, just so long as the desires being satisfied are not wrongful by virtue of offending against an element of the formal equality of opportunity ideal.

The statement said that the university's legal counsel spoke with people who "the complainant said would support his claims" and that "all of those identified by the complainant denied any wrongful conduct" by Fine.

And although finance companies cannot legally collect payment without title, and can be held responsible for wrongful acts by the dealer, attorneys say lenders often demand money from buyers by threatening their credit ratings.

"We think it is a wrongful action by the government".

THE DEATH OF INNOCENTS: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions, by Helen Prejean.

Initially, the Texas couple say, they faced a wrongful foreclosure by Bank of America.

A fund-raising e-mail from Senator Gillibrand called the election "a wrongful recall by the N.R.A".

Hindley's situation had changed from rightful punishment for heinous crimes to wrongful imprisonment "by popular demand".

He was then sued for wrongful death by the victims' survivors, found liable and ordered to pay $33.5 million in damages.

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