adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
enrichment
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In the present case, the concept of unjust enrichment suggests that the plaintiffs should have a remedy.
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In my judgment, this is the paradigm of a case of unjust enrichment .
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The focus upon the offender's unjust enrichment is also questionable for two reasons.
law
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There followed a number of very unjust laws passed against them.
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The play attacks the corruption and depravity of the nobility as well as unjust laws and edicts.
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In doing so I did not of course mean to deny that sometimes immoral or unjust laws are not authoritatively binding.
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Neither abstinence from drugs nor blind adherence to unjust laws are necessarily consistent with those values.
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Remember that sometimes immoral or unjust laws may be authoritatively binding, at least on some people.
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Until now, most judges had been reluctant to enforce the harsh and unjust laws directed against the Nonconformists.
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Can it be that governments have in such circumstances authority to pass immoral and unjust laws ?
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Both non-cooperation and civil disobedience imply some form of resistance to unjust laws , and could result in imprisonment for those involved.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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unjust punishment
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an unjust and pointless war
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The legal aid charity has helped overturn some notoriously unjust verdicts.
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They didn't mind breaking the law because they believed the law was unjust .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But in what sense can the conditions in prisons be said to be unjust ?
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Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.
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He believed that, because we can recognize justice, we know, for example, that an unjust wage is theft.
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It brought back all the resentment at unjust accusations of 11 months before.
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The liberal press was said to be unjust , unfair and unpatriotic and deserved to be closed down.
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They believed the student demands to be unjust .
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Wherever freedom is denied to anyone for unfair or unjust reasons, capitalism can not thrive.