Durkin also emphasized repentance, as in a need for a follower of Christ to experience a "turning away' from past wrongful behaviors.

"This is a system that is there to serve society" by compensating innocent victims for injury and deterring wrongful behavior, Professor Saks said.

But the point is that Microsoft can get a large market share without engaging in any wrongful behavior.

Direct: by which punishment is threatened or applied for wrongful behavior, and compliance is rewarded by parents, family, and authority figures.

"The tobacco industry has been exposed for being different in terms of its product and wrongful behavior," Mr. Myers said.

What many were hoping for, if not expecting, was an apology that identified specific instances in which the church hierarchy itself had engaged in wrongful behavior.

A common catalyst for wrongful behavior is common to every industry: blind devotion to a boss.

For supporters of Dr. Kevorkian, the only wrongful behavior was on the part of the police officers.

Neither brother has been charged with wrongdoing and lawyers for the men emphatically denied any suggestion of wrongful behavior by them.

Li Guangbi often curbed him in and punished his subordinates for wrongful behavior.