Sentence examples for a great sin from inspiring English sources

"At this moment, it's a great sin to do nothing".

"Anti-Semitism," the pope wrote in 1994, "is a great sin against humanity".

"They did not surrender to the law and committed a great sin," he said.

Bonnie is a born-again kindergarten teacher in Ohio hoping to save her students' souls as recompense for a great sin she committed before finding Jesus.

'To co-operate with a state which sets as its aim the destruction of religion is a great sin, and a betrayal of Christianity,' he said.

He added that on the basis of a religious decree by Ayatollah Khamenei, "the production, possession, use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is illegitimate, futile, harmful, dangerous and prohibited as a great sin".

"The second time is a greater sin".

Allowing deflation is a greater sin than allowing inflation.

"I don't think you could commit a greater sin against a fan base," he said.

My friend and colleague Malcolm Gladwell makes the good point that we shouldn't single out athletes for a sin of our society — some students take memory pills, and why is this a greater sin?

Cancellation of the election would surely bring disapproval from the West and from liberal circles in Moscow, they said, but it would be a greater sin to give up power to the Communists.