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  • "Unjust! that's a cant word you learned of my friend Leonora, as you call her, but she is not my friend now."

    The Bracelets Maria Edgeworth 1808

  • As also, that Lawes are the Rules of Just, and Unjust; nothing being reputed Unjust, that is not contrary to some Law.

    Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

  • "Unjust" immigration regulations were put forward by the Department of Health (DoH) on the 7th of March 2006, for International Medical Graduates (IMG's) who have come here in UK for training in NHS.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Thatsnews 2006

  • Well, the unjust man we have said is unequal, and the abstract "Unjust" unequal: further, it is plain that there is some mean of the unequal, that is to say, the equal or exact half (because in whatever action there is the greater and the less there is also the equal, i.e. the exact half).

    Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

  • "Unjust" related to that which is co-extensive with violation of the law as a part to a whole.

    Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

  • "Unjust," said I, "but injustice and stupidity are the ground plan of life."

    The Plum Tree David Graham Phillips 1889

  • Casey Sherman: Obama 'Unjust' in his Iranian Response

    Casey Sherman: Obama 'Unjust' in his Iranian Response 2009

  • Woody Harrelson Backs Wesley Snipes In Legal Scrap, Calls Jail Time 'Unjust'

    Woody Harrelson Backs Wesley Snipes In Legal Scrap, Calls Jail Time ‘Unjust’ » MTV Movies Blog 2008

  • "Unjust Deserts," by Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly, has a good discussion of this.

    Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg! Ezra Klein 2010

  • At the Core: "The play raises the question of what is better: Unjust certainty or mayhem?" said director David Farr .

    Five Acts in the Summer of the Bard Pia Catton 2011

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