Sentence examples for chief sin from inspiring English sources
Strip all the rest away and Lebedev's chief sin appears to be that he likes London.
Yesterday's game was placid enough that I did a little Googling — is that the equivalent of the Yankee-fans' chief sin, yawning while winning?
In 1994 she was given the boot, her chief sin being a last-minute switch to support Mr Clinton's tax increase in 1993.
One chief sin is the reliance by IPCC modellers on market-based exchange rates instead of purchasing-power parity, which adjust wealth according to domestic purchasing power which many economists believe is more accurate.
Reprints Related items Bagehot: Can David Blunkett do his job?Oct 20th 2005 Financing pensions: Hidden treasureOct 6th 2005If anything, the government's chief sin came much earlier, in its want of ambition.
His chief sin appears to have been, as with Mr Bo, seeking to amass so much power that he threatened a system of collective leadership that depends precariously on balancing different factions and interests.Still, Mr Xi and his able sideman, Wang Qishan, who runs the anti-corruption campaign, appear deadly serious about graft.
At that moment, Hernandez's chief sins were assumed to be an excessive fondness for strip clubs and cannabis.
Such loopholes, the tax inspectorate said this week, have saved Yukos, Mr Khodorkovsky's oil company, as much as $5 billion in the past five years; lobbying to keep them is thought to have been one of his chief sins.
Abdullah Omar, a 24-year-old Saudi living in Riyadh, said today that 'letting the United States into our holy lands' was one of the royal family's chief sins.
