Sentence examples for transgression of a from inspiring English sources

It was this transgression of a widely accepted ethical principle which outraged.

But this was not "a transgression of a law of nature"; it was human nature in its highest expression.

Punishment, the infliction of some kind of pain or loss upon a person for a misdeed (i.e., the transgression of a law or command).

It is "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the deity, or the interposition of some invisible agent".

But of course Piero della Francesca was depicting a miracle, which the Scottish philosopher David Hume described as "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent".

As we saw last week, in "Of Miracles", David Hume defined a miracle, rightly in my view, as "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the deity, or the interposition of some invisible agent".

We think transgressions of a serious nature should be held against them in the future".

Murders of this type are seldom punished, particularly when they involve the alleged sexual transgressions of a female, but when punishment is mandated, the sentences are generally light.

One psychologist asserted that cyclists were often perceived as a "minority outgroup," a factor that magnified the transgressions of a small number of cyclists who did not obey traffic laws.

The media's continued focus on the past transgressions of a minority of priests discredits the church's unrelenting works of charity and dishonors the countless men and women who nobly live their religious vocations.

The novel In a Country of Mothers (1993) documents the professional transgressions of a therapist who becomes increasingly convinced that one of her patients is the daughter whom she had given up for adoption.