perceived injustice

collocation in English

meaningsofperceiveandinjustice

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perceive
verb[T]
uk
/pəˈsiːv/us
/pɚ-/
to come to an opinion about something, or have a belief ...
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injustice
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪnˈdʒʌs.tɪs/us
/ɪnˈdʒʌs.tɪs/
(an example of) a situation in which there is no fairness ...
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(Definition ofperceiveandinjusticefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofperceived injustice

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This entailed not only the removal of aperceivedinjusticefrom the community, but also some kind of selective physical sanction against its perpetrators.
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Butterfield used the concept of self-righteousness freely to vilify all actions in international affairs based upon moral indignation at aperceivedinjustice.
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In setting these boundaries however, it will be important to take care that in addressing oneperceivedinjustice, we do not create another.
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However, it deals with a significantperceivedinjustice, albeit that that injustice affects a relatively small number of people.
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There is no price to be put onperceivedinjustice.
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They will, as allperceivedinjusticedoes, cause anger and resentment, possibly leading to ugly confrontations and irreversible damage to industrial harmony.
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The lack of flexibility has led toperceivedinjusticeand on occasions, to real injustice, which has been embittering.
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The £40 tax-free payment has gone a long way towards removing theperceivedinjustice.
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One council's improvement is another council's loss: a reform made here will lead to aperceivedinjusticethere.
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If injustice, orperceivedinjustice, grows, then so must recourse to the courts to deal with it.
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The reality which we are now seeing is that accountability is being lessened rather than increased by the poll tax because of theperceivedinjustice.
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My constituency was in flames as a result of aperceivedinjusticeagainst members of my community.
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It will cause real andperceivedinjustice; it will cause immense delay and anxiety to victims, defendants and witnesses and their families; and it will create vast expense.
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Theperceivedinjusticeof this situation provoked protests and subversive movements.
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On a similar theme objections are made against theperceivedinjusticeof punishing a person for all eternity for a temporal crime.
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They weren't simply a religious leader's effort to speak out againstperceivedinjustice.
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Group-based emotions resulting fromperceivedinjustice, such as anger, are thought to motivate collective action in an attempt to rectify the state of unfair deprivation.
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The underlying point is not simply that any effort to reduce economic inequality or eliminate perceived injustices must respect people's basic moral and civic rights.
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Juries have also refused to convict due to theperceivedinjusticeof a law in general, or the perceived injustice of the way the law is applied in particular cases.
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Mullan was an authoritative and principled writer, never afraid to highlightperceivedinjustice, and conveyed an innate understanding of the sport's political structure.
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