Sentence examples for fundamental sin from inspiring English sources

Mr. Imus's fundamental sin — not quite mortal perhaps, but graver than venial — was his lack of old-fashioned fair play.

In Newton's eyes, worshipping Christ as God was idolatry, to him the fundamental sin.

Zurawik said Williams should not be returning to the air: "He violated the fundamental sin of this business, which is to tell the truth.

An 1832 revelation called "The Vision" added to the fundamentals of sin and atonement, introduced doctrines of life after salvation, the theme of exaltation, and a heaven with degrees of glory.

Mayor Bloomberg, as I noted, views the living wage as a violation of the laws of market fundamentals, among other sins.

Or perhaps the sin was more fundamental than that: perhaps it was the attempt to create a currency union among countries with different economies, histories, cultures, tax rates, fiscal systems, legal frameworks — and doing so with a European Central Bank to oversee the currency but with no controlling political institution in parallel with that bank.

Or perhaps the sin was more fundamental than that: perhaps it was the attempt to create a currency union among countries with different economies, histories, cultures, tax rates, fiscal systems, legal frameworks—and doing so with a European Central Bank to oversee the currency but with no controlling political institution in parallel with that bank.

And what becomes of sin and repentance, fundamental to the message of the Gospel, when what has long been labeled as "fornication" comes to be seen as an attempt to live before God with integrity?

"This is a church whose fundamental notion is that there is no sin for which there cannot be redemption," she said.

"Sin" taxes will never stop us from sinning unless we deal with the fundamental causes.

"I seemed to have crossed some fundamental and incontrovertible line of tolerance for human error and sin," he wrote.