How To Use Unjust In A Sentence

How anyone could have read some sinister intent into those views is indeed puzzling, and illustrates well how those damned Jewshow certain hypersensitive and overly privileged people who feel superior to the rest of the world are willing to cut their own throats for short term advantage by using unjustified charges of anti-semitism to point out how they take advantage of their position in any nation or institution who trusts them so as to benefit their own in group at the expense of that nation or institution. The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
Civilisation as we know it today can only lead to an increasingly unjust, and inequitable, distribution of power across the globe.
I believe that we will be judged on this record and not by unkind and unjustified personal remarks in the press.
Delvile, by which her own goodness proved the source of her defamation: and though something still hung upon her mind that destroyed that firm confidence she had hitherto felt in the friendship of Mr Monckton, she held it utterly unjust to condemn him without proof, which she was not more unable to procure, than to satisfy herself with any reason why so perfidiously he should calumniate her. Cecilia
His domestic policy is unjust, inhumane, fiscally irresponsible, and amazingly uninformed.

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Chief among the grievances I identify as providing primary justifying grounds for secession are these: persistent and serious violations of individual human rights and past unredressed unjust seizure of territory.
Why would we want to proceed with a course of action that is unjust, unwise and completely unnecessary?
It is unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate wealth.
(It is a geekly penchant to do things from scratch, but then this is not always unjustified.) Planet RDF
It is time to end this unjust system. Times, Sunday Times
The Board noted with concern the continuing global disparities in the actual availability and the unjustifiable discrepancies in the consumption of important licit narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances in different regions.
The Cats are underdogs for sure, but that unjustifiably huge spread is going to help motivate them and becalm the Pokes. End up like a 'dog that's been beat too much (Jack Bog's Blog)
They had arranged to meet in front of the library on the day war was declared, to voice their opposition to what they believed was an unjust and unnecessary conflict.
Granting Salvation to some and denying it to others regardless of merit is unjust. Augustine vs. Pelagius Part Two - Grace, Salvation, and Redemption | Heretical Ideas Magazine
Oppression or unjustified imposition can never be tolerated.
Macarthy, the defence lawyer, found himself in the position of trying to defend the indefensible and justify the unjustifiable.
Adopting the language of restitution leads to the return of unjust enrichment, while estoppel enables the son to receive his expectations.
Second, they'd imply that Chalabi had been unjustly maligned or demonized by opponents with other agendas to pursue.
That is not to deny the importance of the concept of unjust enrichment in the law of this country.
The people rose, casting off the chains of unjust rule.
Critics say it is the product of unabashed and unjustifiable price gouging. Times, Sunday Times
We are unjust people (having imaginary arguments strikes me as a bit lacking in proportion, not so mention meagerness of world), and so we are continually confused into failing to give unto each thing its due. Fairness and Justice « Unknowing
In such a situation no individual is any longer penalized and none is unjustly enriched.
She empowered him to tell them, that whatever blame she might throw on Mary's conduct, any opposition to their sovereign was totally unjustifiable, and incompatible with all order and good government: that it belonged not to them to reform, much less to punish, the maleadministration of their prince; and the only arms which subjects could in any case lawfully employ against the supreme authority, were entreaties, counsels, and representations: that if these expedients failed, they were next to appeal by their prayers to The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
Can the director explain why demolished properties will be subject to unjustified disruption?
It was a ‘blatant, unjustifiable waste of ratepayers' money to spend this much on lawyers ’, she said.
As I tried to justify the unjustifiable I told myself that since I had Martin for a chaperon nothing could possibly go wrong. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
Trumped-up charges of conspiracy to overthrow the queen, and an unjustly conducted prosecution, brought conviction of treason and hanging at Tyburn.
The attack on Charles was deeply unjust.
For if the ruler is intemperate and unjust, how can he rule well?
It is therefore odd to watch him waver and wobble over an issue that is not only outrageously unjust, but also flagrantly illegal.
He spent 25 years campaigning against racist and unjust immigration laws.
Had they swayed the sceptre justly, they had been repaid the like, But they were unjust, and Fortune guerdoned them with dole and teen. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I
It is certainly ‘less unjust’ for a physician to bear this than someone less well compensated.
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
One fella on the bus seemed particularly pleased with himself and not unjustly the crowd called him a johnny.
Unless supplemented and constrained by minority rights, state nation-building is likely to be oppressive and unjust.
We will be seen as giving our support, in a very public way, to this unjust war.
Whatever happens to me let me not be unjust, she said; let me bear my burdens myself, and not shift them upon others! Chapter XL
He has no illusions about the atmosphere of terror and suspicion that pervaded even the elite and rendered all of its servitors vulnerable to unjustified and sudden persecution.
Extravagantly showy and ostentatious work is pretentious when the merit it demands is unjustified.
How puerile, how unjust, how derivative, how bloody unhistorical can you get?
Their methods and motives are now universally regarded as brutal, unfair and unjustified.
Disc two's round-up of singles hints at last-minute doubts about disc one: doubts that, two or three makeweights aside, are unjustified.
Difficulty of assessment or apportionment should not dictate an unjust or inappropriate costs order.
Even if the legislature must be able to discourage unjustified absences, it cannot penalise them by creating exceptions to the right to legal assistance.
An ex-convict returns to the illegal street racing circuit to get revenge for his unjust imprisonment. The Sun
An engagement at your age would be totally rash and unjustifiable; and moreover, alliances between first cousins are undesirable. Daniel Deronda
And to draw the last of my title quaternity into the discussion, Edward Tufte proposes as a “grand truth about human behvior that, as Van Wyck Brooks said, “It is a principle that shines impartially on the just and the unjust that once you have a point of view all history will back you up.” AKMA’s Random Thoughts
It will appear from the above statement that this contains an unjust in - sinuation, which the reporter ought modestly to have forborn, especially as he had, while in this city, a conve - nient opportunity for obtaming correct information by applying to any member of the committee of missions. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
What is "fair" or "just" to one person may seem unfair and unjust to another. A Short Guide to Writing About History
He had been sentenced to 21 months for the theft of a handbag in 2007 and considered it deeply unjust. Times, Sunday Times
To have convicted Crosfeild for singing a regicidal song would have been unjust and even preposterous, so that at least legally there has to be some kind of aesthetic dispensation, aesthetic free space for strong expressions.
His claim to be an important and unjustly neglected painter is sheer self-deception - he's no good at all.
The Government agreed before Christmas to remove the unjust anomaly which excluded parents of severely disabled children, under the age of two years, from getting the domiciliary care allowance.
The criticism was wholly unjustified.
Restrictions are simply unjustifiable on liberal grounds.
‘The clamour for early interest rate increases is unjustified and potentially dangerous, particularly for manufacturing,’ he said.
It is unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate wealth.
Gregory liked to portray tax as unwarranted and unjust.
Restructuring, aided by waves of computerization, meant wiping out entire layers of management, a process that was bloody and sometimes deeply unjust.
We need afederal law that any time someone is kept off the ballot and it is later determined by a Federal agency that is was done unjustly, the state has to pay several million dollars in restitution. Ballot Access News
And this has caused a mass unjustified complaisance.
You have taken all that away from him in a brutal, cowardly and totally unjustified attack. Times, Sunday Times
But it would be an unjustifiable violation of another's personal freedom to coercively attempt to prevent him from ingesting some substance that he - however wrong-headedly from the critic's perspective - finds desirable, useful, or pleasurable.
It is all being inspired by a political leader who dramatises his belief in the unjustness of his prosecution by staying in a prison cell, ecumenically reading holy books and praying with pastors.
The new law could also be used to interdict professional work if the offense was linked to it, for example, in cases of medical doctors abusing or unjustifiably prescribing narcotics.
Today the waters themselves, the mightiest of streams, the great onrushing rivers and oceans that Prophet Martin and Prophet Amos thought the very standards of mighty justice, of empowered justice, of Eternal justice -- these mighty waters are themselvesÂbeing poisoned, polluted, raped, reduced to mere victims of unjust power. Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Justice Still Denied: My Mini-Sermon at the 'One Nation Working Together' Rally
The writers community believes the protests over the book are unjustified and ridiculous.
Neither abstinence from drugs nor blind adherence to unjust laws are necessarily consistent with those values.
Until then, however, we must assume that the old man still possesses his full wits and that his nerviness is not unjustified. A Letter of Mary
It is unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate wealth.
If the jury feels that the law under which the defendant is accused, is unjust, or that exigent circumstances justified the actions of the accused, or for any reason which appeals to their logic of passion, the jury has the power to acquit, and the courts must abide by that decision. Bête Voir
The business constituency, on the other hand, views much regulation as an unjustifiable intrusion by the State.
the devices by which unenlightened men preserved the unjust social order
Fears of complete closure seem unjustified. Times, Sunday Times
Yau has chosen to use people with ‘normal’ body shapes to illuminate the fact that many of our conceptions of body images are unjustified.
But you should make certain that you don't becloud his judgement with unjustified preconceptions. DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
We the undersigned are aware of the unjust treatment of Sakineh Ashtiani. Notable
I was trying to speak up on behalf of the unjustly stigmatized, but I was treated as if I were some kind of soft-headed spam lover.
In this vile composition lie accusations of unjustness, vitriol, manipulation, and home wrecking.
In the unlikely event that the police do find that a vehicle has been unjustly impounded by one of their members and they return the vehicle, who will pay the towage and storage costs?
Effective action is always unjust. Maya Angelou
Your report last week was unfair. It was based upon wholly unfounded and totally unjustified allegations.
And I can even shrug off the unjustifiable accuse the university education of the unemployment rate.
It wounds our egos when patients leave us, no matter how unjustified their reasons.
The undermining of self-esteem may lead to assumptions about the reactions of others that are unjustified.
It is unfair and unjustifiable when the tax payers who pay for these utopian benefits are faced with worthless private pensions or no occupational pension at all.
Of course, nature being unjust as ever, I have no biological clock of my own.
Examples of abuse of a dominant position include overcharging, discrimination against suppliers, unjustifiable refusals to supply and predatory pricing.
Whether justly or unjustly acquired, various forms of wealth can become our master, shaping and filling our lives in a godlike manner.
They used every trick in the book to justify the unjustifiable and the people saw through their lies, half truths and dissimulations.
Whatever theoretical justification there might be for a dual market it would appear increasingly unjust.
Some means might possibly be unjustifiable by any ends.
Critics say it is the product of unabashed and unjustifiable price gouging. Times, Sunday Times
For years he refused to pay his poll tax, on the grounds that his money would fund an unjust government. Times, Sunday Times
She was unjustly accused of stealing money and then given the sack.
He later learns that he was framed and unjustly imprisoned.
He raved about the unjust punishment made by the manager regarding his fault.
This means exactly not to be a rebel, but to suffer innocently, including bearing unjust shame.
I grant that this is real, but the risk they are proposing to take is excessive and unjustifiable.
Discs (or Pentacles) are the pragmatic suit. Sometimes people see them as plodding and a bit slow, but this is unjust.
The unjust peace agreement set the scene for another war.
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
He preached to these throngs of people twice daily, urging them to give up their licentious and unjust ways. COLLINS DICTIONARY OF SAINTS
As a result the system was structurally unfair and unjust. Times, Sunday Times
What, then, is the function of mistake in the field of restitution on the ground of unjust enrichment?
My amiability, which is in many cases the result of indifference; my indulgency, which is sincere enough, and is due to the fact that I see clearly how unjust men are to one another; my conscientious habits, which afford me real pleasure, and my infinite capacity for enduring ennui, attributable perhaps to my having been so well inoculated by ennui during my youth that it has never taken since, are all to be explained by the circle in which I lived, and the profound impressions which I received. Recollections of My Youth
Nor did he specify what action might be taken if evidence emerged of unjustified price rises.
Any contrary decision would make a serious and unjustifiable inroad on the rights of bailors, and for this inroad there does not appear to me to be any authority.
He blamed much of the world's tensions on what he called undemocratic and unjust governance. UN Summit Aims to Reduce Poverty, Hunger and Disease
This analogy suggests that comparing the language proficiency of a monolingual with a bilingual's dual language or multilingual proficiency is similarly unjust.
Prefer loss to unjust gain.
In the letter, Gadhafi implored Obama to stop the NATO-led air campaign, which he called an "unjust war against a small people of a developing country. Gadhafi, in letter, asks Obama to end air strikes
It is unfair and unjust that so much muddled thinking has informed the debate right from the beginning.
Zephaniah is advanced, sooner than he expected, to this place of trust and power, and Shemaiah would have him think that Providence had preferred him that he might persecute God's prophets, that he had come to this government for such a time as this, and that he was unjust and ungrateful if he did not thus improve his power, or, rather, abuse it. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
It is unjust to start bombing on the basis of those surmises.
It is unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate wealth.
The share price strength is not wholly unjustified. Times, Sunday Times
We are asserting a legal claim in the name of people who were individually and collectively unjustly deprived of their assets. Times, Sunday Times
The Communists dutifully echoed his admission, disclosing that even loyal Vietminh veterans had been unjustly tried and executed.
He had impressions, possibly gross and unjust, in regard to the way women move constantly together amid such considerations and subtly intercommunicate, when they don't still more subtly dissemble, the hopes or fears of which persons of the opposite sex form the subject. The Tragic Muse
THE proposed strike by junior doctors over their overtime pay dispute is morally unjustifiable. The Sun
The reason nobody takes action over unjustifiable privacy invasions is because the very taking of such actions would cause further and more intrusive invasions of privacy.
Page 297 to me that son altesse royale might be seriously hurt, that nothing in her demeanour had announced her, rank; and such a discovery might lead to increased distance and reserve in her future conduct upon other extra audiences, that could not but be prejudicial to her popularity, which already was injured by an opinion extremely unjust, but very generally spread, of her haughtiness. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
For us who were sinful, he gave up the holy one; for the wicked the innocent one; the just one for the unjust; the incorruptible one for corruptible men; and for us mortals the immortal one.
Hearing Beatrix get ticked off (unjustly) one day, Rosamund is chilled by the tone of Ivy’s voice: ‘She didn’t raise it, not at all. The Rain Before It Falls « Tales from the Reading Room
We do so because we recognise that unjustly taking another's property is immoral.
The owners' response was that the charterers' complaint was unjustified.
His claim to be an important and unjustly neglected painter is sheer self-deception - he's no good at all.
He told himself that Katrina's absurd and unjustified hostility towards her father was fuelling his anxiety. FINAL RESORT
A man awakens to find himself in poverty instead of in wealth; his possessions suddenly swept away; or from health, he, or some one whose life is still dearer to him than his own, prostrated with illness; or to find himself unjustly accused or maligned, or misunderstood, or to encounter some other of the myriad phases of what he calls misfortune and tribulation. The Life Radiant
Because of his actions 46 people were imprisoned unjustly and lost their freedom for more than three years.
Empire must be more guileful --- and thus the massive unjust inequality of OpEdNews - Diary: Alfred P. Sloan's Monetization of ��Democracy'
morally unjustified
The press invade people's privacy unfairly and unjustifiably every day.
Salehi said Iran would soon send a detailed and analytical rebuttal of the concerns raised in the report, which he called "unstudied and unjust. Reuters: Press Release
He has concluded that it would not be wrong, unjust or oppressive to do so.
It's hypocrisy that is imposed on them by a ridiculous and unjust system. Times, Sunday Times
I grant that this is real, but the risk they are proposing to take is excessive and unjustifiable.
We are asserting a legal claim in the name of people who were individually and collectively unjustly deprived of their assets. Times, Sunday Times
My mother too is dead, and I am called her murderess, unjustly it is true, but still that injustice is mine to bear; and she that was the glory of my house, my darling child, is growing old and grey, unwedded still; and those twin brethren, called the sons of Zeus, are now no more. Helen
Moreover, as we were saying before, he grows worse from having power: he becomes and is of necessity more jealous, more faithless, more unjust, more friendless, more impious, than he was at first; he is the purveyor and cherisher of every sort of vice, and the consequence is that he is supremely miserable, and that he makes everybody else as miserable as himself. The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett
Because the wealthier party can afford the more skillful attorney, the system unjustifiably favors the wealthy.
But the story about the time that I just acted on a moment of meanness – of unbidden, unjustified, inexplicable meanness – that story, I don’t know how spin didactically. Falling Out Of Trees | Her Bad Mother
It is a condition that is demoralizing in a hundred ways, and is fraught with peril to the republic, peril to society, and peril to all the interests of humanity; and therefore as I would assert, -- and _who would deny_ the supreme right and power of the people to protect the republic from any impending calamity by any just means, _but not by any unjust means_ -- I would claim that it is our right and duty to say that this grand hereditary inequality shall not be perpetual, and that The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891
I made a decision to speak up against an unjust law in Florida because I was victimized by that law.
They suffered, with unapproving acquiescence, solicitations, which they had in no shape desired, to an unjust and usurping power, whom they had never provoked, and whose hostile menaces they did not dread. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)
He could also be irascible, most especially about unjust or unfair behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
Using these missiles to down civilian aircraft is simply immoral and totally unjustifiable.
As a general matter, there is an international consensus about the economic evils of price-fixing cartels as unjustifiable restraints of competition.
During the same period he also taught apologetics, church history, and patristics in the Bergamo seminary and had to survive a brief and unjust accusation of sympathy with Modernists.
unjustified price increases", especially on basic commodities such as mealie-meal, cooking oil, sugar and bread. ANC Daily News Briefing
Great artists mix with the unjustly neglected to form a smooth, cohesive whole. Times, Sunday Times
He had wrongly used that word; it sounded malicious; and to call consenting the same in fact as choosing was wilfully unjust. The Egoist
The meeting was prompted by the high number of complaints by Bulgarian citizens of unjustified visa refusals.
Then the court must decide whether the unjust enrichment should be compensated through a monetary award or through the granting of a proprietary interest.
But using the authority of "God" to justify unjust acts and to aggrandize personal power has lead to today's state, where the very word "God" has become a subject of debate, rather than a transcendent authority for good. Ralph Singh: Interfaith Storytelling For A More Perfect Union
The 9/11 families have suffered egregiously, but unfortunately they remain vulnerable against such unjustifiable parasitic strains. US politicians demand phone-hacking investigation after 9/11 claims
So often the local authorities are an easy target for criticism, sometimes unfair and unjustified.
Socrates means to emphasize that nothing outweighs in positive value the disvalue of doing unjust actions.
It relieved humanity of the heavy load under which it was groaning and broke the fetters unjust rulers and ignorant lawgivers had put around its feet.
Capability" is understood as one of the key identifiable and ameliorable characteristics in an unjust situation: one of the things that define victims of injustice as such, in other words, is precisely their lack of power to alter their situation. Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
Using these missiles to down civilian aircraft is simply immoral and totally unjustifiable.
We took him to court for unjustifiable gains. The Sun
It's a totally unjustified sum of cash. The Sun
Covetousness is not only in getting riches unjustly, but in loving them inordinately, which is a key that opens the door to all sin. The Lord's Prayer
A cultural practice that is manifestly wrong on humanist grounds becomes the excuse for a colonizing mission whose tactics are in turn violent and unjust.
The defendant had supreme and, as it turned out, unjustified, confidence in his own judgment.
But capital punishment is not for me in that category: it is not self-evidently harmful, not self-evidently unjust.
This seems a grossly unjust system. Times, Sunday Times
It is so frustrating that the bleached images of the alien world are so ruggedly handsome and so unjustified and impertinent to the plot at the same time.
This plan (to travel around the world) is unnecessary and patently unjustifiable in this time of economic crisis.
He had a strong sense of justice: I recall his fury about one poor man who was being unjustly accused of indecent exposure because he had stumbled undressed from bed to close his curtains.
They suggest that around 73 percent of 18 to 29-year-olds - the so-called 'yoof' audience that the BBC targets with hosts like Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand - think that the current licence fee is unjustified. Licence fee under fire
Intelligence is not defined as that which is intelligent, and Allen and your dormitive accusation is unjustified. Bunny and a Book
Trial by jury is the most fundamental of our civil liberties and eroding it is wholly unjustified.
I hoped for a kind judge: I relied too much upon an unjust indulgence, for I hoped to shuffle by. TESTIMONIES
Andrew Jackson, the first president from the western frontier, was unjustly accused of bigamy and derided as an unschooled ignoramus.
We might agree that, if we could distribute talents, it would be unjust or unfair to distribute them unequally.
But the families of the pilots, and many aviation experts, have long argued that the ruling represented an unjust blight on two fine careers. Times, Sunday Times
The world in general, and the book trade in particular, is unfair, unjust, and patently absurd in its workings.
These are often considered to be of an inferior quality, lacking sufficient sound and heat insulation, but this is unjustified criticism.
[W] here there is no coercive Power erected, that is, where there is no Commonwealth, there is no Propriety; all men having Right to all things: Therefore where there is no Commonwealth, there nothing is Unjust. Coercion
Another instance of so grossly unjust, so palpable, so general an evil that it has occasionally aroused some protest even from our dull conciousness is this: the enforced attitude of the woman toward marriage. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution
The public and principle breaking of the law by otherwise law-abiding persons is meant to call attention to the unjustness of that law.
_All magistrates, who have been_ unjustly turned out, shall _forthwith resume their former_ employments; as well as all the boroughs of England shall return again to _their ancient prescriptions and charters_, and, more particularly, that _the ancient_ charter of the great and famous city of London shall again be in force; and that the writs for the members of Parliament shall be addressed to the _proper officers, according to law and custom_. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12)
To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace. Confucius
However, there is no reason to think that the claims in that material are unjustified.
Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it. Garrison Keillor
As the polls closed, hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Madrid's Puerta del Sol to protest what they call an unjust domination of the country's electoral politics by the two major parties and to warn of continued agitation against government austerity measures. Conservatives Ride Crisis to Victory in Spanish Vote
It is time to end this unjust system. Times, Sunday Times
The unjust system of taxation underlined huge disparities in wealth. THE LOST KING OF FRANCE: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII
The buck-passer forgoes simple rules of ethics, letting someone else unjustly suffer the consequences, usually shifting the blame for what went wrong on to someone less powerful than he. Living with the Passive—Aggressive Man
We are asserting a legal claim in the name of people who were individually and collectively unjustly deprived of their assets. Times, Sunday Times
Wickham paints a dreadful picture of Darcy as a selfish and spoiled child who grew into a heartless and unjust man.
Modern censures on Herodotos for failing to mention this obstacle have, here as often, been proved unjustified.
_angaria_, _angariare_, in medieval Latin, and the rare English derivatives "angariate," "angariation," came to mean any service which was forcibly or unjustly demanded, and oppression in general. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
The government sees this as an effective course of action for a doctor who feels they are the target of unjustified allegations.
It is quite unjust and sometimes demoralising to see how fate dishes out its own glad tidings.

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