victim of injustice

collocation in English

meaningsofvictimandinjustice

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victim
noun[C]
uk
/ˈvɪk.tɪm/us
/ˈvɪk.təm/
someone or something that has been hurt, damaged, or killed or has suffered, either because of the actions of someone or something else, or because of illness ...
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injustice
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪnˈdʒʌs.tɪs/us
/ɪnˈdʒʌs.tɪs/
(an example of) a situation in which there is no fairness ...
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(Definition ofvictimandinjusticefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Would he not feel in those circumstances that he, the farmer, was thevictimofinjusticein being compelled to continue to give accommodation to such a man?
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He chose her because she was seen by many as a famousvictimofinjustice.
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Daniella, avictimofinjustice, is arrested and sentenced for a crime she did not commit.
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In addition, the tenant farmers who work the land and are the victims of injustice will be the direct beneficiaries of a land reform program.
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This is further demonstrated in relation to the lives of victims, by the neglect of notorious victims of injustice and wrongful conviction.
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The 1878 and 1917 rebellions, the disruption of 1984, every day we know that we have been the victims of injustice.
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Through reasonable social action, the state can reduce the risk that victims of injustice will also be subject to preemptive action.
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The exasperations they harvest from this loyalty to the dead, to memories of victims of injustice, are bitter indeed.
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But such involvement was based not on ideology but on the need to express solidarity with the victims of injustice.
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What may victims of injustice permissibly do in order to rectify the injustices being done to them, including the many injustices done by persons acting through their government?
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Sometimes the victims of injustice are not vocal.
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Countless numbers of ordinary people have over those years sought redress through its provisions for situations in which they have been the victims of injustice.
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Why bother to have proceedings in court at all if, generally speaking, people are not the victims of injustice?
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They have simply been the victims of injustice.
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Will it not strengthen their view that they are the victims of injustice?
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That, too, is an important protection for all of us, for real or potential victims of injustice, and particularly for the inarticulate and for nature's losers.
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Over the following years, he defended a wide range of clients who had been victims of injustice.
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He served with a burning passion for justice and shining compassion for the victims of injustice.
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He instinctively protected those whom he thought were the victims of injustice or attacks by his enemies, even if they were guilty.
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The first issue of the newspaper declared that it would speak on behalf of the interests of the poor and victims of injustice.
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