noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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Our proposal is a modest one: we are trying to implement a more just system rather than tackling a great injustice .
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There are many poor people in the world; that in itself is a great injustice .
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Was the hazardous code of the duel a greater injustice than the unfairness of the law?
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There was an emptiness about the evident lack of emotion which seemed to do George a great injustice .
social
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She says bluntly what she thinks about landowners, the Royal Family, social injustice and access to the hills.
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Poverty was let off the hook. Social injustices were let off the hook.
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Secondly, some change may be organised from above in order to encourage agricultural productivity and curb social injustice .
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The left says that evil results from social injustice .
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In January 1990 the Commission recommended 58 proposals for the rectification of social and economic injustices .
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Some were angered by the social injustice that allowed huge inequalities in wealth and welfare within their society.
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Also looking outwards, others such as Shahn, Lawrence, Fougeron and Eardley pointed to social or political injustice .
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As soon as the State takes some responsibility for economic organization, it becomes responsible for social injustice .
■ VERB
cause
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The basic principle is that the amendment must not cause an injustice .
suffer
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Two months later: The truth was never revealed, though it seems likely that Lothar suffered an injustice .
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For forty years this village suffered the injustice of a 99% échelle de cru.
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It is plain, however, that Mr. Butler has suffered no injustice whatever.
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Those who suffered injustice would then be supported by the courts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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racial injustice
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She will be remembered for her ceaseless campaigning against injustice .
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The group, called the Wilmington 10, were active in protests against racial injustices in the schools in the early 1970s.
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These injustices are intolerable, especially when the victims are children.