Sentence examples for abomination for from inspiring English sources

(Abomination, for example, does not mean against God, but against a civilization's cultural norms).

"It was an abomination for interracial couples to fall in love; it would destroy the institution of marriage.

The root of the problem is factory farming, an abomination for the hogs, the small farmer and the consumer.

In it, one of the disciples quotes Scripture as saying that it is "an abomination" for a man to lie with a man, and "they shall be put to death".

It is a shame when a single person in this world can't get the best treatment possible, but that there are children in our own country who can't get even basic health care is beyond shameful: it's an abomination, for which each American eligible to vote bears a moral responsibility.

The incomprehensible, corrupting code has been an abomination for decades.

Theobald, who had embarrassed Pope by contrasting Pope's impressionistic Shakespeare edition (1725) with Theobald's own scholarly edition (1726), also wrote Whig propaganda for hire, as well as dramatic productions which were to Pope abominations for their mixing of tragedy and comedy and for their "low" pantomime and opera.

As a palaeontologist who studies dinosaurs in the UK it might be assumed that I am in a state of depression, racing to sign an online petition to stop this abomination (scheduled for completion in 2017).

Their main scriptural inspiration is the passage in Leviticus that mandates the death penalty for gay sex ("Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: it is an abomination") though, for some reason, the adjacent verses, which proscribe astrology in similar terms, never seem to excite the WBC quite so much.

Reality: This, sadly, did not happen and "ROCK IS BACK!!!" was merely an invention by 2004 Brits host Cat Deeley as what can now be identified as an excuse for the abomination of novelty-rock troupe the Darkness winning three – THREE! – Brit awards that year.

In true Aussie fashion, it has taken this long for an abomination from 1991 to wash up on its shores.