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Example sentences for: sins

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He starts with a bit of name-dropping, one of the minor sins of academic reviewers, to show his familiarity with the great names of 19th-century German philosophy, and continues with, “Johann Bachofen, colleague of Friedrich Nietzsche and Jacob Burckhardt at Zürich University.
The underlying sins were more personal than political.
Deep economic problems are supposed to be a punishment for deep economic sins, not an accidental byproduct of swings in the birth rate.
Dole's sins: Not only did he want to slash $270 billion from the program--more than needed to protect the Medicare "trust fund"--he wanted to hike premiums, force seniors to pay more out of pocket for care, and push them into managed care.
But this bit of gratuitous groveling pales next to the sins of others--both those who remained Stalinists into the 1950s and those who did not just acquiesce in, but advocated, McCarthyism.