Sentence examples for severe transgressions from inspiring English sources

The monitoring reports also reveal more severe transgressions.

Each of the 36 most severe transgressions (e.g., adultery, sodomy, idolatry, sorcery, or murder) carried one of four types of death penalty (stoning, burning, beheading, and strangling).

Existing proposals differ in whether to prioritize tackling omission through transparency requirements, punishing more severe transgressions, or possibly both.

The Speaker can already eject MPs from the chamber for five days or more for severe transgressions of Commons rules.

Racism might be a pretty severe transgression over the line of acceptable behaviour for pantomime villains, but a lot of people were sad to see Luis Suarez leave the league.

All directors, whatever their age or level of experience, are bound by strict regulation and legislation, backed by severe penalties for the most serious transgressions.

The more socially privileged you are, the less severe your transgressions are perceived to be; by those that enforce law and by the general public response.

To prevent up-coding, the Bureau of National Health Insurance BNHII) exercised close oversight and imposed a severe financial penalty on transgressions.

As for Edward II himself, his dependence on the Despensers grew only deeper, and their transgressions more severe.

The endemic corruption of financial institutions will go on until they know they are being watched, they know the chances of being caught are high, and they know that the penalties for transgression are severe.

The Third Lateran Council, in 1179, outlawed sodomy and the love that dare not speak its name, and the penances for transgression became severe.