Sentence examples for wrongfully won from inspiring English sources

It must be repeated again and again that it is a victory that was wrongfully won, and is very far from the spirit of democratic renaissance that animates Africa today.

Stan wrongfully claims Kerrigan won the gold medal until Kyle reminds him she won the silver; Parker said this was done because he felt the perception of Kerrigan was extremely high among Americans considering she only actually achieved second place.

Mindful of pledges to Congress that they would not repeat the errors of the 2000 presidential election -- when they were accused of interfering with voting by wrongfully reporting that Al Gore had won Florida before the polls closed -- they did their best to keep those results to themselves until the last votes were cast.

Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, drew loud applause from a lively crowd as he recalled how he and his legal group won the release of wrongfully convicted death row inmate Anthony Ray Hinton earlier this month.

That included Maguire, who is now being sued by the trustee of those who lost money in the ponzi scheme; because, the trustee believes, the game was not licensed with the state of California, they claim that Maguire wrongfully took their clients' money when he allegedly won games against Ruderman.

While thousands of death-penalty cases across the nation remain mired in delays and appeals, six death row inmates won exonerations this year after proving they were wrongfully convicted, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

A man who spent seven years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of raping a girl at a Bronx daycare center won a $5 million settlement from the city, his lawyer announced yesterday.

Linda Horrocks, a former healthcare aide in Flin Flon, Manitoba, recently won a human rights complaint that claimed she was wrongfully dismissed for imbibing while off the clock a violation of her terms of employment.

He's won millions of dollars in settlements from the city for wrongfully convicting people, and maintains a long list of cases in which prosecutors have broken ethics rules to win convictions, all without disciplinary sanctions.

Mr. Garbus also represented Public Enemy No. 1, a hip-hop and rap group, for whom he won a copyright suit against the Coors Beer Company that wrongfully sampled its work in beer advertisements.

In 2003, another employee won a jury award of $11.2 million after alleging he was also wrongfully fired because he was gay.