Sentence examples for a sin of from inspiring English sources

SEPTIMUS: Not necessarily, my lady, but when carnal embrace is sinful it is a sin of the flesh, Q.E.D. We had caro in our Gallic Wars — "The Britons live on milk and meat" — "lacte et carne vivunt".

A decade ago, he called my attention to "a sin of omission I have encountered... the dropping of the words is concerned from the phrase "as far as [whoever] is concerned".

Some might think that a sin of the spirit.

Theirs is a sin of omission, not collaboration.

This is, at best, a sin of omission.

Is it a sin of omission or commission?

And this has frequently been a sin of commission, not omission.

Bribery is not a sin of rogue employees or poor countries.

Which leaves us with Tepperman's most egregious sin of all, a sin of omission.

Where it doesn't, it is a sin of omission rather than a deliberate action.

What went on in the boards of the banks, on the other hand, was clearly a sin of commission.