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How to use the word justly in a Sentence?

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The power of a government is a sacred trust, only justly exercised when it safeguards the liberties and aspirations of its populace.

Aloo Denish Obiero

added by Aloo-Denish
4 months ago

To prevent jealousy: Distribute the praise justly.

Ryan Pack

added by littleking
9 months ago

People get angry when I insult them justly, but they never care when they offend me unjustly.

Ryan Pack

added by littleking
10 months ago

Violent-crime increase — call it Ferguson Effect 2.0 or the Minneapolis Effect — has come on with a speed and magnitude that make Ferguson 1.0 seem tranquil, george Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police in late May was justly condemned — but the event has now spurred an outpouring of contempt against the pillars of law and order that has no precedent in American history.

Mac Donald

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It wasn't to glorify what happened on January the sixth, i want every single person who had a bad intention, or who did anything wrong on January the sixth, to be to be held accountable for that. But also, I want the people who were being held to be treated justly.

Salleigh Grubbs

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You know what you’re doing is wrong, we know it. Whether you get yours in this life or God punishes you, you’re going to get justly punished and the lack of justice we’re going to get, you’re going to have to answer for someday.

Douglas Kantor

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The truth about insults: If somebody unjustly insults you it means nothing, except that maybe they're assholes, or maybe even they're incompetent, but if somebody justly insults you, then it means something.

Ryan Pack

added by littleking
2 years ago

Freedom of expression: It's an obstruction of justice when one is not able and allowed to express himself justly, he becomes a prisoner.

Ryan Pack

added by littleking
2 years ago

This is an important milestone for the Conviction Review Unit we established two years ago, we are committed to ensuring that our criminal justice system operates fairly and justly for all people.

Gurbir Grewal

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Capital punishment: Capital punishment has no role in a perfect world. But since the world we live in is far from perfect I say reserve it only for the offenders who justly deserve it. We as humanity need to strive for and accomplish a just and peaceful world so that way we can abolish capital punishment altogether.

Ryan Pack

added by littleking
3 years ago

History teaches us the unfortunate lesson that cultural values supplant constitutional rights whenever the cultural elite consider a right too burdensome to suit the needs of the moment. The outlandish pronouncement in Dred Scott 'that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit,' the shameful court-approved internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, and the separate but equal doctrine that officially existed until 1954 are all examples of the evils that result when cultural values are given more weight than constitutional rights.

Robert Dowlut

added by anonymous
4 years ago

We recognize that during his lifetime Chief Poundmaker was not treated justly nor showed the respect he deserved as a leader of his people, it is my sincere hope that, by coming together today and taking this important step together as equal partners, we can continue the important work of reconciling the past and renewing our relationship.

Justin Trudeau

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

All the property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.

Benjamin Franklin

added by Normando
4 years ago

We must resolve now to live as nobly and as justly as possible, as we educate new generations not to turn their back on our 'neighbors' and everything around us, building a nation calls us to recognize that we must constantly relate to others, rejecting a mindset of hostility in order to adopt one of reciprocal subsidiarity in a constant effort to do our best.

Pope Francis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Living beautifully and justly are the source of all joy and happiness.

Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

William Penn

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

Andrew Carnegie

added by anonymous
10 years ago

His action no applause invites Who simply good with good repays; He only justly merits praise Who wrongful deeds with kind requites.*

Panchatantra

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.

Omar Khayyam

added by anonymous
12 years ago

In some dispositions there is such an envious kind of pride that they cannot endure that any but themselves should be set forth as excellent; so that when they hear one justly praised they will either openly detract from his virtues; or, if those virtues be, like a clear and shining light, eminent and distinguished, so that he cannot be safely traduced by the tongue, they will then raise a suspicion against him by a mysterious silence, as if there were something remaining to be told which overclouded even his brightest glory.

Feltham

added by anonymous
12 years ago

It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

Coleridge

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

Socrates, Crito," (Plato)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Andrew Carnegie

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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