33 examples of gross injustice in sentences

Such gross injustice, coming in time of war and applied to soldiers who richly deserved reward, made the veterans 'mad with rage.'

Powerful and despotic as was the king, he knew he could not obtain this coveted vineyard except by gross injustice and an act of violence, which even he dared not commit.

"How can I believe this gross injustice, on the part of a Power that is wise without bounds, and forgiving to parental love?" "Thy answer would be well, were this earth the universe, or this state of being the last.

Of course the teacher interfered to prevent this gross injustice, and in the afternoon made their school-fellows perfectly aware of the part each had acted.

I infinitely prefer to suffer still more from the gross injustice of unprincipled men than to gain my rights by a single illegal step....

To have summarily confiscated the property in slaves already in the Territory would have been an act of gross injustice and contrary to the practice of the older States of the Union which have abolished slavery.

" Johnson, in my opinion, was not far wrong in his judgment, though it would be a gross injustice to regard Chesterfield as nothing but a fribble.

Perhaps Cobbett thought he might excite a sensation in England and rally about him the followers of Paine, or it may be that he wished to repair the gross injustice he had done him by some open act of adherence; at all events, he exhumed Paine's body and took the bones home with him in 1819, with the avowed intention of erecting a magnificent monument to his memory by subscription.

To talk of Billingsgate in comparison with these women, is to do the Holland and Flemish ladies gross injustice, English phlegm being far more silent than Dutch phlegm.

Influence must be brought to bear, and Father Peter must be prevented from perpetrating a gross injustice.

To doubt that would be to do them a gross injustice.

And if we were to go back a century or two, to the state trials of those days, we know that to form our estimate of a prisoner's guilt from such data only would be doing him a gross injustice.

to look for mercy (without a timely repentance) will only be another instance of their gross injustice!

Instead of which you start a quarrel" The gross injustice raised Ethel's voice to an outcry.

The case, if there was any case in favour of the prisoner, was not one for pardon but for such redress as might now be given for a most gross injustice.

But here Mr. Jefferson would not allow Mr. Morris to proceed with his dicta, declaring that he did Monsieur Necker a gross injustice, and defending him warmly, both as a financier and statesman.

Mr. BALFOUR, always at his best when defending a friend, laid about him lustily, and convinced the majority of the House, not very friendly at the outset, that it would be an act of gross injustice to remove a great public servant because the Commissionon whose evidence, without further inquiry, you could not hang a cathad reported adversely on his conduct in an entirely different capacity.

" "But, my dear Dr. Rowcliffe, think of the gross injustice to that poor girl.

Hume called himself a sceptic, and therefore others cannot be blamed if they apply the same title to him; but that does not alter the fact that the name, with its existing implications, does him gross injustice.

I know enough of human nature to understand that it is very possible for an angry manand chagrin and irritation are too legibly written on every page of this articleto be betrayed into gross injustice.

I shall be guilty of gross injustice to historical truth if my words give one a very low opinion of the status of woman under Bushido.

I never should have given him up because of the gross injustice done to him about the property.

I was very nearly successful in rectifying the gross injustice of the world.

And yet, to give Augustus the property, my father has done this gross injustice.

By acting on such premises, besides doing gross injustice to the people, he made himself ridiculous.

33 examples of  gross injustice  in sentences