Sentence examples for transgression cost from inspiring English sources

The transgression cost Mr Yang his job as a law professor.

The penalty for this final transgression cost me a case of beer, a debt which I promptly paid.

Cook lamented the number of extras conceded by wanton bowlers; he calculated that these transgressions cost his side about 40 runs.

The failure of the company to uncover and address the transgressions cost her brother James his job as chairman of News Group Newspapers and then as executive chairman of News Corp's newspaper arm, although the resignations were strung out as the scale of the failings were laid bare.

"No excuses," he said, estimating that his transgression would cost him a few hundred dollars with the team's kangaroo court (and require some Photoshop work).

That remark about "costing a game" was patently a reference to the 2013 Premiership final between the great East Midlands rivals, when Hartley was sent off for calling the referee Wayne Barnes a "cheat", with full Anglo-Saxon accompaniment – a transgression that cost him a place on that year's successful Lions tour of Australia.

These Hurricanes have overcome the transgressions of the old Miami teams -- transgressions that cost the program 31 scholarships and too much time -- and this Miami team does not seem eager to heap new transgressions atop the old ones.

He was a police informer, appropriately troubled by the complicated ethics of betraying his friends, a man who lived in the full expectation that these transgressions would cost him his life.

In April, Kiss FM breakfast DJ Bam Bam, now podcasting weekly without regulation, was fired for repeated transgressions that cost £175,000 in fines from the regulator, an industry record.

He adds, "A carefully phrased apology for past transgressions would cost little and do much".

The traditional rational choice model of compliance depicts the individual as facing a decision problem in isolation: If there are sanctions for non-compliance, the individual will calculate the benefit of transgression against the cost of norm compliance, and choose so as to maximize his expected utility.