8 sentences with 'unjust'
Example sentences and phrases with the word unjust and other words derived from it.
• « For the Greeks, the term tyrant did not originally mean an unjust or cruel ruler, since many tyrants managed to resolve major political crises on behalf of the hoplites and, at the same time, succeeded in placating the aristocrats. »
• « Much of Roman law still seems grossly unjust from a contemporary perspective. In particular, the laws came to establish a formal division between the rich and the poor, even in the case of citizens. »
• « Voltaire wrote essays and articles denouncing the unjust punishment of the innocent and personally convinced the French King Louis XV to commute the sentences of certain individuals unjustly convicted of crimes. »
• « What is the purpose of government? Who decides laws? What is just and unjust? How should the economy work? »
• « Ironically, some of the major intellectual movements of the post-war period focused not on the promise of a better future, but on the premise that life was and was likely to remain alienating and unjust. »
• « The US-led Cold War alliance claimed to represent the side of freedom and prosperity, but many young people in the West found US policy abroad as unjust and violent as Soviet policy in Eastern Europe. »
• « A new feminist movement emerged to defend not only women's rights under the law, but also the idea that the objectification and oppression of women was unjust, destructive and unacceptable in supposedly democratic societies. »
• « Like the Sons of Liberty before the American Revolution, the whiskey rebels used violence and intimidation to protest against policies they considered unjust. »