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evil act

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meanings of eviland act


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evil
adjective
uk /ˈiː.vəl/ us /ˈiː.vəl/
morally bad, cruel, or ...
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act
noun
uk /ækt/ us /ækt/
something that ...
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Examples of evil act


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The evilact, as the quotation above says, is based on an evil will (the bad tree).
Nor is it an evilact by being the sort of act a virtuous person would not do, since only the virtuous person's intentional actions serve as paradigms.
The proposition is rather on the lines that it is legitimate to do an evilact if others also are prepared to do it.
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It is quite true that in paying that amount for the advowson an evilact in my jugdment is taking place.
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However, because a terrible tragedy was averted no one will shed a great many tears for people who were about to commit an evilact.
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In case of an apparently evilact, a sufficient reason for the act despite the faults it will cause negates the scandal.
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When the evil suggestion grows in intensity, the intention becomes a resolution, which then culminates in the evilact.
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Other universalists might argue that although the commission of an evilact is always evil, those who perpetrate may not be wholly evil or wholly good entities.
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When good acts deserve reward and evil acts punishment, it as though these acts stood in a causal relation to the subsequent effects.
Scandal is also performed when someone performs an evilact, or an act that appears to be evil, knowing that it will lead others into sin.
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Duncan has visions of this evilact and investigates.
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When the first causes of evil acts become further removed down the line of command, our confusion about moral responsibility increases, even in those cases where the evil is great.
For those who commit outrageous and evil acts there cannot be any shred of sympathy.
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Such evil acts can never be justified or excused in my book.
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If evil men know that they will be called to account personally for their evil acts it will constitute a great deterrent.
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Let me give him an assurance that the police will spare no effort in pursuing those who committed these evil acts.
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I believe that the centre of our problem is to catch criminals, to deter them from their evil acts and, if possible, to reform them.
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However, as long as the people who committed these evil acts and others like them are at large, we cannot eliminate risk.
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