Sentences with phrase «evil effects»

It is appropriate, I contend, when it is necessary to achieve the purposes of punishment and when it does not have disproportionate evil effects.

If the victim finds the salt and soil, he or she burns it immediately and then must counter whatever evil effects are left by smoking them out.

The primary problem, then, is the problem of inducing sinful and complacent people to act responsibly to eliminate situations that cause such evil effects.

If it is understood in a strongly mentalistic way, as consisting exclusively in what the agent has it in mind to do, then the agent can at least try to avoid formal cooperation by excluding from his plans the evil effects of the action he is cooperating with.

But the classical tradition held that the State should not exercise this right when the evil effects outweigh the good effects.

He accepts the new artificial self that society imposes, but he also judges it; his innocence is provoking, perverse; his very goodness has evil effects, yet his cruelty also registers an essential sense of justice.

A well - made object is good even if it has evil effects, and a vicious artist can be true to his art.

And while it is obviously possible that such decision may be erroneous in any given case, still the evil effect following it, being limited to that particular case, with the chance that it may be overruled and never become a precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of a different practice.

This is to say that Christ undid or reversed the work of Adam by obeying God instead of disobeying him; he fulfilled the promise made to Abraham; and he nullified the evil effects of the law of Moses.

The Nana Addo - Akufo NPP administration must not ever repeat the sickening blunders the immediate NDC Dramani Mahama cultivated and worked to evil effect.