Sentence examples for transgressions like from inspiring English sources

The response was the same when other winners were embroiled by transgressions, like jail sentences.

Bukowski describes terrible beatings, sadistically inflicted for minor transgressions like missing a blade of grass when he mowed the lawn.

Numerous studies have linked the origin of viruses to ecological transgressions like climate change and the loss of natural habitats.

Women had been whisked away and imprisoned and brutalized for the slightest transgressions — like wearing lipstick or being improperly dressed.

Even if there is no outright embezzlement or fraud, Mr. Smith at the Cardozo School of Law notes, problems often arise from transgressions like overstatement of claimed deductions.

Infractions — for transgressions like calling out without permission, frowning after being given a demerit, being off task — lead to detention for upper-school students.

One study showed that participants who were asked to dwell on a personal moral transgression like adultery or cheating on a test were more likely to request an antiseptic cloth afterward than were those who had been instructed to recall a good deed they had done.

Subjects asked to think about a moral transgression like adultery or cheating on a test were more likely to request an antiseptic cloth after the experiment than those who had thought about good deeds.

In my view, comparisons of him to cinematic masters of anarchic transgression like John Waters and Jack Smith are wrong.

In more puritanical days, many states prohibited divorce unless one spouse could prove a transgression like abandonment, sexual escapades or cruelty.

In a study for the current issue of the journal Emotion, Dutch researchers had 66 participants read vignettes about people who were caught in some transgression, like cheating on a spouse, and after each one study a photograph of the offender.