Instead of defining it as a transgression never to be repeated, the Obama administration normalized it to the point where discussions of torture and indefinite detention on the government's say-so generate no more moral concern than discussions of the appropriate rate of estate taxes.
It did not make America any safer or freer, as it was a transgression against the Constitution and an affront to our ideals.
It seems a transgression, a rebellion, an act of stupidity.
-- Margaret O'Hora, Albany Yes, as transgressions go, yours is minor, but it is a transgression.
She added: "In parts of England now it's a transgression even to consider her as a human being.
It is "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the deity, or the interposition of some invisible agent".
It was a transgression on two counts: as a woman Mrs. Helal was not supposed to work, and her female students were not supposed to learn.
Unlocking it seemed a transgression all the same: the intimacy of scent as I clicked the door open, the bric-a-brac facing me when I swung it wide.
More specifically, it is "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent" (EU, 11.12n/115n).
"It's a transgression, an aggression even, on the level of personal liberty.
