Sentence examples for major transgression from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "major transgression" is correct and usable in written English
You might use it to refer to a serious violation of a code of conduct, rule, or law. For example, "He committed a major transgression when he fraudulently opened a bank account using another person's identity."

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I began to giggle, a major transgression, but I couldn't help it.

A last major transgression of marine waters flooded large segments of all the continents later in the Cretaceous.

The second is to remind all clergy that sexual abuse is not only a mortal sin but also a major transgression of criminal law.

In Behr's case, her mother, a single parent, was arrested after she had lost her job and decided to stay at home to care for her children – a major transgression in the eyes of a state that believed in compulsory labour.

Jim Ferguson, the offensive coordinator at Sam Houston State, said in a telephone interview that Bomar had the talent to succeed as a professional and that people should stop asking Bomar about the major transgression at Oklahoma that almost derailed his career.

Mann said: "Something very seriously is going wrong when one arm of government is investigating what appears to be a very, very major transgression and another arm, the conduct authority, isn't able to do so, because no one has told you".

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These stages were originally defined as rock sequences composed of distinctive assemblages of fossils that were believed to change abruptly as a result of major transgressions and regressions of the sea.

In his December 1999 report, Mr. Stancik accused Ms. Ballantine, a seventh grade teacher at Intermediate School 450 in the East Village, of "major transgressions," including directing children to check their answers during the test or "pick another answer".

However, this and the three subsequent major transgressions formed a series of four sand barriers parallel to the coast that progressively increased the availability of coastal areas after the regressions and may have allowed for the genetic diversity observed today.

And in what looked like a major, targeted transgression, Finance Minister Christine Lagarde of France has said (twice, for clarity) that Germany's persistence in holding down wages and failure to stimulate domestic demand created imbalances in Germany's favor that were impossible for other E.U. members to sustain.

The Cambrian opened with a major marine transgression (Peters and Gaines [2012]), likely caused by eruptions of submarine volcanos (Vermeij [1995]), which increased both temperature and nutrient supply.

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