Sentence examples for petty transgressions from inspiring English sources
The list of petty transgressions used to justify the lynching of African-Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was cruelly and exhaustingly long.
Maybe we can trade places: you'll see how it feels to drive like a maniac untouched by John Law, I'll experience the thrill of bringing the hammer down on petty transgressions as violators beg in vain for mercy.
Dragging out the cameras for so minor a crime contributes to the anxiety and distrust associated with a surveillance society, alienating neighbor from neighbor, a high price to pay to thwart a petty transgression.
But my transgressions are petty compared to some of those which could now be removed from search engines thanks to the recent ruling by the European Court of Justice that Google and its rivals are responsible for the content they carry, and must consider requests to have material taken down if it's "no longer relevant".
If someone is able to find out about assistance, endure the confusing and long process of applying and is actually approved then they can look forward to the possibility of receiving a sanction which is a process in which your benefits are called into question for some transgression as petty as missing an appointment because you had to work.
America's transgressions are trivial by comparison.
Reiss does something else that grated on me, although it's only a petty infringement in the context of this treatment's larger transgressions.
Most lynchings followed disputes over wages, slight breaches of racial etiquette, accusations of petty theft and attempts by white people to divert attention from their own transgressions.
