sense of justice
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsenseandjustice
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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justice
noun
uk/ˈdʒʌs.tɪs/us/ˈdʒʌs.tɪs/
fairness in the way people are ...
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(Definition ofsenseandjusticefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsense of justice
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The subjects also had a strongsenseofjustice.
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The personal qualities-competence,senseofjustice, etc.- of monarchs were certainly not discounted as factors of importance.
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These laws do not demonstrate an aberrant publicsenseofjusticebut an isolated instance of flawed legislation.
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Yet judges had few qualms about overturning long-standing rating practices if those practices violated the judges'senseofjustice.
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These behaviors are not instances of a humansenseofjusticeand morality.
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Central to his proposed solution is the notion of thesenseofjustice.
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We can without contradiction conceive of a person in whom asenseofjusticeis absent.
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Territory of origin, particularly when it has been claimed and occupied by another, remains critical to nationalist imaginings and asenseofjustice.
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Conscientious objectors make no claim to represent a sharedsenseofjustice.
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On the contrary, his or her participation may help preserve a modestsenseofjusticethat might otherwise collapse when national survival is threatened.
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It is part of what free and adult citizens with asenseofjusticemay expect of one another.
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Thesenseofjusticemotivates, and it motivates more strongly than anything else.
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Oursenseofjusticehowever, wants both the girl and the other eight people in the future to be treated fairly.
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Alfred's reputation was not limited to hissenseofjusticeor his magical skills in radical surgery.
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Hume's argument stops at thesenseofjusticerequired to honor contracts.
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The first one consists in simply pointing to the facts and trying to appeal to the judges'senseofjusticerather than to any specific legal norm.
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I have been immensely attracted by the idea, which accords with asenseofjustice, but on closer examination grave difficulties present themselves.
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Surely that should have been the policy, dictated not only by asenseofjusticeand honour, but by a sense of self-interest.
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It would, in the second place, give asenseofjusticeall round.
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