"We acknowledge our transgressions, our shortcomings, our smugness, our selfishness and our pride.
"We acknowledge our transgressions, our shortcomings, our smugness, our selfishness and our pride," he went on, his baritone voice filling the room.
Players resolve foul calls themselves on the field according to agreed-upon protocols and, ideally, they acknowledge their own transgressions.
But it will disarm those critics in source countries who know — but rarely acknowledge — that regardless of past transgressions, their treasures may be safer, better preserved and more widely adored in the world's great museums like the Met.
There, he will trot out the same line, saying: "We need to acknowledge that there have been unacceptable transgressions, which have made people question the value of what we do.
Anthony's greatest transgression is his failure to acknowledge and rectify his shortcomings.
The quote helps support a broader sentiment that the current racial discontent is being fueled by a black liberal grievance industry that refuses to acknowledge racial progress, accept personal responsibility, or acknowledge its own racial transgressions.
The church had followed the disciplinary procedure set forth in Matthew 18: the elders confronted the woman three times; after she refused to repent of her fornication, they formally announced her transgressions to the entire congregation, which then refused to acknowledge her presence.
He goes on to assail the church's repressive attitude toward priests with homosexual leanings and its refusal to acknowledge them within its ranks as root causes of some of the transgressions cataloged here.
But there is no salvation for Faust, whose crime is the one transgression that Goethe can never forgive — solipsism, the refusal to acknowledge the full reality of other people.
