Sentence examples for because of lust from inspiring English sources

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Early Christians, influenced by Augustine of Hippo, who in the fifth century decided that Adam and Eve had been thrown out of the Garden of Eden because of lust, decided that sex was a sin, and condemned all sorts of things, including masturbation.

There are many reasons why women seduce men, and it's not always just because of lust.

Because of lust for oil is killing more, costing us more, and hurting us more than Lohan's lust for Mojitos.

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"Discrete acts of homosexuality" were condemned in the Bible because they were acts of lust instead of the "love, forgiveness, grace" of committed same-sex relationships, the bishop said.

"This all happened because of the lust of the boy.

The pair have since broken up — she says because of his lust for fame; he says because she's a liar.

The love of different people of different ages and even different species finding ways to live on Earth without destroying it because of a lust for energy.

Alcuin had previously stated that Lichfield had been elevated because of a "lust for power", presumably by Offa, and not through any consideration of the merits of the plan.

In 1932 choreographer Kurt Jooss created The Green Table to show the futility of negotiations because of power, lust and greed - a stinging truth for when negotiations collapsed, WWII erupted.

Although it is true that Carter once confessed in a Playboy interview to having "looked on a lot of women with lust", the Queen Mother, according to Shawcross, said he kissed her not out of lust but because she reminded him of his mother.

He chooses to become a fascist killer and to marry a materialistic petit bourgeois wife (whom he describes as "good in bed, good in the kitchen") - not out of political commitment, nor out of lust, but because he has an (ostensibly) shameful secret.

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