How To Use Transgress In A Sentence

There must then be obedience to an infinite law, or _infinite_ punishment for transgression. The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church
But the Law of Moses under which the Jews, as evidenced by their circumcision, are supposed to live under is very rigid and proscribes up to death for many transgressions. The Volokh Conspiracy » Ann Coulter, Christian Chauvinist:
Overeating and drunkenness both violated social moral codes, although the latter appears to have been a much weightier transgression: intoxication is frequently listed among the serious crimes — "pleasurable living," adultery, theft — mentioned by Sahagún's informants. 47 Indigenous drinking practices also shocked Spaniards who had their own ideals of moderation when it came to alcohol consumption, a topic that we look at in Chapter 4. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
When that course entails the social regulation of her sexual life in reproduction, the young woman's entry into intellectual life will necessarily be seen as transgressive.
A woman is permitted to chat or babble, but speaking in public with authority is still the greatest transgression.

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Certainly, you can confront the transgressor, contemplate revenge, or hold a grudge forever.
For this cause also God has banished from His presence him who did of his own accord stealthily sow the tares, that is, him who brought about the transgression; [4433] but He took compassion upon man, who, through want of care no doubt, but still wickedly [on the part of another], became involved in disobedience; and ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
Special courts under such proclamations tried and punished those who transgressed against the orders of the military authority.
Early in the film, Janice's transgressions already resonate on a specific historical level and tap into older notions regarding the feminine.
The confessional language is stunning in its clarity: ‘I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.’
Xorandor's logic transgresses that of binary systems because he combines mutually exclusive operations.
If he indeed were guilty of such an execrable transgression, this newspaper would be among the first to condemn, and not defend, him and his broadcaster.
The transgressive character of the prose poem emerges here as a natural expression of the Language poets' anti-establishment impulse.
That the portraits of Beethoven did not bear much likeness to the composer could be deemed a deliberate transgression.
This is plainly ludicrous, and if the transgressors don't learn their lesson soon, the rest of us will certainly appreciate the irony when they're surviving on their children's benefits.
None of these characters is evil, none commits the transgression that precipitates the suicide, but all are driven, understandably yet horrifyingly, to behave in devious ways that wound others badly. Cover to Cover
Now, in this land the path of the transgressor is strewn with barbed wire, and so my mistress got entangled in some loose strands that had uncoiled from the fence. Janey Canuck in the West
To the same purport is v. 8, for the transgression of my people was he smitten, the stroke was upon him that should have been upon us; and so some read it, He was cut off for the iniquity of my people, unto whom the stroke belonged, or was due. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
This time the alleged transgressions involve a violation of constitutional protections that really matter in a democracy.
Tickled by the notion of this souvenir of my transgression, I paid the surcharge, and keep the photo in my album to this day.
Ultimately, we need to have a zero tolerance policy and if that means the police pressing charges against any transgressors, then so be it.
By performing the personal in public, talk-show guests transgress the boundaries of behavior and decorum deemed appropriate by middle-class society.
Certainly, you can confront the transgressor, contemplate revenge, or hold a grudge forever.
For the US conservative it is also inextricable from the abhorrence through which any “overly” strong woman is judged as a moral transgressor, in a vilely reactionary misogyny. Archive 2009-01-01
They sometimes afflicted people with fits or staggers or palsies for transgressions such as emptying a bucket of foul water in the wrong place. Wildfire
But we apparently choose to make an example out of petty transgressors such as these to lull ourselves into the belief that we're winning the battle against crime!
In a matter of decades, Makiki's artistic focus had shifted from the virtues of the Madonna to the transgressions of the whore.
The resulting paradox - a transgressive aesthetic supporting a conservative social and political status quo - would endure until the end of the Old Regime.
Engle makes Sherry adorably effective as an effable, devoted (brings his lunch to work) wife who deals reasonably well with that pesky little transgression and is funny as hell when she learns while drunk that Joe's old flame is married to the renegade preacher. James Scarborough: Bail Me Out, the Hudson Guild Theatre
These condensed intervals may be underlain, however, by oolitic grainstones, or marine reworked eolian sandstones that also form part of the transgressive systems tract.
The sea transgresses along the West coast of the island
The first sequence spoke to me of how merciful God is for absolving my transgressions.
Certainly, you can confront the transgressor, contemplate revenge, or hold a grudge forever.
And whereas that some of those who bear this auld and honourable name may take scorn that it ariseth from the tilling of the ground, quhilk men account a slavish occupation, yet we ought to honour the pleugh and spade, seeing we all derive our being from our father Adam, whose lot it became to cultivate the earth, in respect of his fall and transgression. Chronicles of the Canongate
-- In this solemn and impressive prayer, in which they make public confession of their sins, and deprecate the judgments due to the transgressions of their fathers, they begin with a profound adoration of God, whose supreme majesty and omnipotence is acknowledged in the creation, preservation, and government of all. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
There is an omnipresent vulnerability and sweetness about your portraits that belies the transgressive nature of what's presented.
This time the alleged transgressions involve a violation of constitutional protections that really matter in a democracy.
Two vodkas with soda water later is my only transgression.
Every past or present Israeli transgression is evidence of its wickedness, whereas Arab ones, if they are acknowledged at all, are “understandable.” Think Progress » Gingrich: ‘This Is, In Fact, World War III’ And The U.S. ‘Ought To Be Helping’
And your transgressional fiction sounds really cool! The Panda on Muppet on Porn
He certainly knew what another meant, and did not relish the idea of being blown to kingdom come for his transgressions.
And non-observance does not lead to a state of transgression; it brings one back under the jurisdiction of the law.
a second; but, by instructing them in the laws of military discipline with the same care and exactness a priest would use in teaching ceremonies and dreadful mysteries, and by severity to such as transgressed and contemned those laws, he maintained his country in its former greatness, esteeming victory over enemies itself but as an accessory to the proper training and disciplining of the citizens. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Because the discourse concerning the textural semiotics of Titus's sexualized offerings is not of a sufficiently academic nature to be the object of attention in an admittedly sui generis blog having its origins within an academic context, it it appropriate to say a few more words concerning the deconstructive sexualization and postcapitalist transgressive character of Titus's texts. About my proposed Titus recording.
Transgender rage is the subjective experience of being compelled to transgress what Judith Butler has referred to as the highly gendered regulatory schemata that determine the viability of bodies, of being compelled to enter a “domain of abjected bodies, a field of deformation” that in its unlivability encompasses and constitutes the realm of legitimate subjectivity. Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What
Bvt before there had bene yet any precise obseruation made of figuratiue speeches, the first learned artificers of language considered that the bewtie and good grace of vtterance rested in no many pointes: and whatsoeuer transgressed those lymits, they counted it for vitious; and thereupon did set downe a manner of regiment in all speech generally to be obserued, consisting in sixe pointes. The Arte of English Poesie
There are ways among the stone and shadow of our cloisters to transgress the Rule.
One who transgresses the injunctions of the Vedic scriptures whimsically acting under the impulse of desire, never attains perfection, neither happiness nor the supreme goal.
No doubt you read about this challenging art film's premiere this week at New York's Museum of Modern Art, where curators praised the film's revolt against phallocentrism and its use of the body as canvas for acts of transgressive violence. 'Jackass 3D': Tomfoolery and camaraderie in a whole new dimension
For the last six years, he has found himself reviled and disparaged by most of America, with every transgression in and out of the ring adding to the image of an unpleasant human being.
The desire to transgress the limits and limitations of human existence is a driving force behind all art.
There may be something mildly transgressive in the whole enterprise.
If the radio operator kept his mouth shut, the transgression might not get to the ears of his superiors.
They were unable to pursue any line of inquiry which transgressed across the frontiers of authority of the intelligence organisations.
Note, A true penitent is willing to know the worst of himself; and we should all desire to know what our transgressions are, that we may be particular in the confession of them and on our guard against them for the future. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Bausch's bodies are mad bodies; they are transgressive bodies; they are insatiate bodies.
The children shall not be punished for the father's transgression" (Daniel Defoe). As it refers to the breaking of a statute.
The process of step-and-stair transgression thus continues until hydrostatic equilibrium is established as the intrusion tapers out at the zero isopach.
Increasing intolerance for transgressions against the rule of biology.
This time the alleged transgressions involve a violation of constitutional protections that really matter in a democracy.
True Blood" fits the bill partly in a jokey way, offering the story of backwoods-Louisiana waitress Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) and her vampire boyfriend Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) as if their lovemaking were a socially transgressive act. Vampires for Snobs
In this taxonomy of transgression, original sin merited less punishment than did actual sins, as noted by the monk William in his debate with the heresiarch Henry of Lausanne (minori pena teneantur). A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
In each case the scenario was exactly the same: traffic altercations where some minor (in two cases imagined) transgression was blown out of proportion by the Frenchman.
‘O Allah, I swear by Thy Greatness and Thy Glory, I meant not through my disobedience to transgress against Thee; for indeed I am not ignorant of Thee; but my fault is one Thou didst foreordain to me from eternity without beginning; 357 so do Thou pardon my transgression, for indeed I disobeyed Thee of my ignorance!’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Y: "And to you there came Joseph in times gone by, with Clear Signs, but ye ceased not to doubt of the (Mission) for which he had come: At length, when he died, ye said: 'No messenger will Allah send after him.' thus doth Allah leave to stray such as transgress and live in doubt," - Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
But if the stiff-necked transgressors cannot be persuaded, they can be cowed and conquered.
We see it regularly now when prominent figures fall foul of the law or when disgraced business leaders transgress the code and pay the price.
The Rabbis learn from the plural “damim” that she saved him from two transgressions: from committing bloodshed, and from having relations with her when she was menstrually impure (BT Megillah loc. cit.). Abigail: Midrash and Aggadah.
Mobiles ringing in the dressing room, lateness and the wrong kit are all transgressions that can lead to coughing up dollars.
And whereas that some of those who bear this auld and honourable name may take scorn that it ariseth from the tilling of the ground, quhilk men account a slavish occupation, yet we ought to honour the pleugh and spade, seeing we all derive our being from our father Adam, whose lot it became to cultivate the earth, in respect of his fall and transgression. Chronicles of the Canongate
Their main transgression involves the use of so-called robo-signers, bank employees who signed foreclosure affidavits without properly checking the required loan documentation. The Stealth Stimulus of Defaulters Living for Free
To show that any rule about how bills are passed transgresses these limits would seem to be quite a tall order. The Volokh Conspiracy » Balkin on the “Slaughter Solution”
In the logic of the play, Iona is cast as a politically dangerous figure because of her perverse erotic engagements, although Shelley wisely never particularizes the full range of Iona's so-called perversity; and the ultimate crime that all of Iona's transgressions metaphorizeSwellfoot's "castration" is punished even before it is committed, since Swellfoot calls for the beheading of the Queen before she confronts him directly with her own demands for political power. Shelley
On the other hand, if a woman artist speaks of militarism, imperialism, war and capitalism, she is still frequently rapped on her knuckles for inauthenticity, for transgressing into areas beyond her area of competence.
Moreover, the actions of individuals who repeat rather than question, watch out for, punish, and sanction transgressions, lend these norms their strength.
That's a mortal trespass, an unforgivable transgression that must be stopped.
Fossiliferous, thin marine shales, associated with biochemical precipitates such as glauconite and phosphorite, are common in transgressive systems tracts.
Fears that Crystal Bridges would sugar-coat American art may be true in the sense that it lacks the latest from profane or transgressive artists like Paul McCarthy, say, or Richard Prince. An Uneven Span Across Time
Frequently they convey some Communist moral transgression to the Jewish leaders.
The figures, in this way, served as surrogates of the body, enabling the idea of the body to transgress social norms without consequence.
In each case the rejected form is taken to embody that which is beyond the bounds or transgresses the limits of, variously, decency, acceptability, or good taste.
When a sick person died, the tohunga would blame it on the patient, saying they had breached tapu or had committed a spiritual transgression.
Within taboo and transgression the interplay between the profane and the sacred is a dangerous one.
This contravenes the movies' typical treatment of cads, who are usually punished for their moral transgressions or transformed into dullards by the power of love.
All our life we live knowing that God's justice demands satisfaction for our transgression of God's law.
I am not observant and in fact have many, many transgressions to my credit, yet I am wealthy and content with my life.
Those are the rules, and anyone who transgresses will be severely punished.
Goebel: not simply mediated views of the world, but also fantasies and imaginative extrapolations that 'transgress' given reality can be constructed and communicated. Ethics in Games: Cfp
Taking a poetry course with Heaney was a bit transgressive, given that my doctoral degree was going to be in history of science.
Rather, it had to do with taking responsibility for where he did transgress, which is having an inappropriate relationship with an informant. SFGate: Top News Stories
None of them paid any outward attention to their "sheets," although Alfred and Gracie spread theirs with elaborate care; they leaned their elbows on the table, they made loud, swooping sounds with their lips, and, in short, transgressed every law known to civilized life. Ester Ried Yet Speaking
In general terms, the sequences have a relatively simple transgressive-regressive pattern around a mid-cycle condensed interval represented by shellbeds, sideritic micritic limestones or ironstones.
They have transgressed the treaty of peace.
You mentioned language and its multiple meaning, metaphorical asides, its evocative transgressions and endearing intentionality.
Media organizations need to be punished for their transgressions by whatever means possible.
I affirm, comprehends the whole nature of a law precisely considered; and as for the annexion of punishments to the violation, or of rewards to the performance of it, they are not of the precise intrinsic nature and obligation of a law, but are added only as appendages to strengthen it, and procure a more certain awe to it and performance of it: forasmuch as man will be more likely not to transgress a law, being under the fear of a declared punishment for so doing, and to perform it upon a persuasion of a sure promised reward for such a performance, than if neither of these were added to it. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
When Stores could not, they were prone to steal vegetables, melons and poultry from the convicts, a transgression Ross punished as severely as if the larceny were the other way around. Morgan’s Run
One shack houses a collection of books by and about the transgressive French writer.
The Mich Dem party brain trust is sure that the DNC will seat the delegates, in spite of the transgression of party rules. Archive 2008-01-01
The books were not only at the barricades, they were the barricades, behind which the students could both take shelter and push forward; could "transgress" across the police lines while the truncheons fell on the books, not the demonstrators. The Guardian World News
That was, if you like, an ironic and paradoxical appreciation of the transgressive.
Those are the rules, and anyone who transgresses will be severely punished.
Longshore drift transported sediment from this eroding rocky coastline to these embayments following the culmination of the post-glacial marine transgression some 7 ka ago.
GG Allin is perhaps best remembered for his notorious live performances which typically featured transgressive acts, such as Allin defecating and urinating onstage, rolling in feces and often consuming excrement, performing naked, committing self-injury, and attacking audience members. Documenting Reality
They experience pain, transgress borders/limits, and come into existence in situations that are stimulated by pain.
Golan: Taking material out of the public domain transgresses the traditional contours. Archive 2009-04-01
Redemer to be very God and very man, because he was to underlie the punischment due for our transgressiouns, and to present himselfe in the presence of his Fathers Judgment, as in our persone, to suffer for our transgression and inobedience, [662] be death to overcome him that was author of death. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
One transgression, no matter how minor, and she'll be gone while her footprints are still warm on the floor. THE HUNDREDTH MAN
To write and publish this poem was a daring, transgressive act.
The double-barrelled question is a clear instance of the transgression of this rule, but in addition there is the case of a question like.
Sexuality affords us the opportunity of transgressing the barrier separating life from death.
For so we see, aspiring to be like God in power, the angels transgressed and fell; Ascendam, et ero similis altissimo: by aspiring to be like God in knowledge, man transgressed and fell; The Advancement of Learning
In so doing, the iridologist will avoid transgressing the law and stepping on the toes of those who are legally qualified to diagnose. How and When to Be Your Own Doctor
To write and publish this poem was a daring, transgressive act.
An organic-rich shaly horizon of this age can be traced into continental Europe and possibly into North and South America; the stratigraphy suggests regional transgression and deepening.
Perhaps she might be excused for her transgressions due to the fact that she was born with ataxic cerebral palsy. Lee Brenner: The Top 10 Stories From 2011 Missing From All the Top 10 Lists
Does the text in some way transgress these limits?
To commit an offense or a sin; transgress or err.
There could be no more profound a transgression, for a society whose self-definition is caste, than marrying across caste.
Tales of the candidate's alleged past transgressions have begun springing up.
In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune. Politics
They have transgressed the treaty of peace.
The first time my own transgressions were revealed to me by this handy gizmo, I nearly swooned from the shame, but we needn’t discuss that. The Case of the Mysterious ¶ or Things Your Creative Writing Instructor Never Told You
Ms. Goebl says the key to the fair's identity is the functional object, whether or not it transgresses conventional borders between design, architecture, art, craft and technology. Maturing Gracefully
In doing so, Manet inaugurated the transgressive period.
Sandbodies are abruptly overlain by bioturbated sandy muds with flint pebble horizons that represent transgressive reworking of the delta top and deepening into open shelf conditions.
This is evidence of a transgression, meaning that as the Bright Angel Shale was being deposited the sea gradually moved landward.
In each case the rejected form is taken to embody that which is beyond the bounds or transgresses the limits of, variously, decency, acceptability, or good taste.
And so he comes, through these various transgressions, into conflict with the mandates of the ethnic group and religion to which he belongs by birth.
Too often we condemn corruption and crime because it is the popular, right-thinking thing to do, while at the same time we welcome back the transgressors, or fail to practise what we preach.
My advice, if you permit, would be to consider avoiding succumbing to the natural human proclivity towards racism or even "revanchist" actions (for past, historically racist transgressions made by other groups - which you call "whites") and thereby refraining from posting entries - using strong language - just against any other outside groups indiscriminately, without solid considerations ... Home
Moreover I have sworn an oath not to tread their soil nor transgress against them in aught; so how shall this man come at the daughter of the Great King, and who hath power to bring him to her or help him in this matter? The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
I and my kind were cast out, for some transgression we can no longer even recall, and we are still in search of our redemption. NIGHT SISTERS
But in the field of human rights the evidence of heinous transgressions would not even induce a formal reprimand, except when it subserves other interests.
The nature of horror is cyclical, with each ‘newly transgressive incarnation of the genre’ replacing the last.
Note 26: William, pp. 47 — 48: "Ex transgressione enim Ade complexio tota fuit debilitata et corrupta in pena peccati." back A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
So that it may, I confess, give temporal impunity to such as transgress upon this account, but for all that, it can never by so doing warrant the transgression itself; it may indeed indemnify the person, but cannot take away the guilt, which, resulting from the very nature of the action, is inseparable from it. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
Also, here, desire and transgression are articulated through a systematic presentation of opposites.
Strambo, and the other intimate friends of Pasquino, having noted in what manner she used the Sage, and this appearing as her utmost refuge, either to acquit or condemne her: in presence of the Judge they smiled thereat, mocking and deriding whatsoever she saide, or did, and desiring (the more earnestly) the sentence of death against her, that her body might be consumed with fire, as a just punishment for her abhominable transgression. The Decameron
Mélisande's restlessness with Golaud turns frolicsome, even transgressive, by Pelléas's side. An Otherworldly Opera
Such transgressions exposed the community's food supply to grave peril, for uncleansed ndzhaka would "close the sky" (kupfala tilo), "seize the rain" (kukhoma mpfula) and cause drought that would "kill the land" (kudlaya tiko). Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
Limestone deposition will then result by retrogradation from the adjoining shelf during continuous transgression.
When citizens fail to agree about their rights, governments can take advantage of them gy transgressing the rights of some citizens while retaining the political support of others. North and Weingast, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
It is connected with the former of them by the recurrence of the same word, which in the first petition was rendered 'cleanse' -- or, more accurately, 'clear' -- and in this final clause is to be rendered accurately, 'I shall be _clear_ from the great transgression.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms
However, he did still have to be firm with the girl, otherwise she would transgress.
Because transgression is vice, because we must control our passions, because vice is self-indulgence, because passion can only be controlled by reason, because reason is control, because control is virtue. Stoicism, Sophistry and Sodomy
How was it that he could tempt her to transgress against all her principles? DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
I always get the sense that when intense partisans of genre fiction, SF especially, get wound up about "literary fiction" and its discontents, they usually associate such fiction with "realism," against which all genre fiction transgresses in one way or another. Experimental Fiction
Sometimes, however, he is stretching things a bit, transgressing the borders between a scientific tractate and a missionary polemic.
He was last night found guilty of transgressing rugby rules when he tackled an opponent without the ball and has been suspended for six weeks.
I had seen his performances, and he represented what I would describe as bad choreography, in the sense that he was quite transgressive, an enfant terrible.
Conceived as delimiting a verbal habitus or ethos, verse instigates a traverse whose unruliness is grooved deep into the genesis of phrasing — and of its evoked and self-razed alternatives — rather than merely awaiting some transgressive gesture on the reader's part. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
Publishing on-line without proofreading is probably not the greatest of sins, but for a grammar pedant such as I, it's pretty transgressive nonetheless.
This would seem to contradict, however, the notion of major transgressions being the much-delayed after-effects of an orogeny.
She's a quintessential bookworm, a ferocious autodidact - someone who, whatever her missteps and transgressions, commands our respect and attention.
How was it that he could tempt her to transgress against all her principles? DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Any sense of transgression she might have had was now inextricably fused with a sense of the inevitable naturalness of her actions. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
As the sea level rose in the early to middle Holocene, dunes on the low-gradient shelf were transgressed and provided the core for the modern offshore sandy shoals.
Any sense of transgression she might have had was now inextricably fused with a sense of the inevitable naturalness of her actions. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
In all four gospel traditions, Jesus consistently makes the first move to reach out to the marginalized, often transgressing contemporary social mores and religious strictures in the process.
To be translated into a language where no word - ground, air - transgress, affirm - act, do - made sense. THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD
He was far too indulgent of players' transgressions and inevitably an element of indiscipline crept into the play.
For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
For Novo, an urban chronicle must represent the city in its entirety and must include previously taboo and transgressive urban activities and spaces.
We also believe the UK – bilaterally and as part of the EU – has an important role to demonstrate to Israel that the threshold of acceptable behaviour has been perilously transgressed. UK: Muslim extremists target Jews
If a politician transgresses, that is not the fault of the media.
While that database does include the names of many men who are factual heroes, and a few who have transgressed the laws of our land, it does not contain the name Heroes or Villains?
the boy was punished for the transgressions of his father
The measure was taken in response to security concerns and is not intended to punish inmates for their fellows cons ' transgressions.
Let us grant Goffman's contention that marginalized, diasporic cultures are transgressive in nature and lead to cultural hybridity.
That is, critics who use the term invent the boundaries that are supposedly being "transgressed. Subversion
conventionality" are typically coded as "feminine," there is an unspoken bias that leads masculine transgender expression to be seen as more inherently transgressive than feminine transgender expression. Life, Law, Gender
But the film is less a policier than a post-Foucault case study of the criminal as social transgressor.
One of the few prayers prescribed in the Bible includes “I have also given it [a tithe] to the Levite, the proselyte, to the orphan, and to the widow, according to the commandments You commanded me; I have not transgressed any of your commandments and I have not forgotten … I have hearkened to the voice of Hashem, my G-d, I have acted according to everything You commanded me.” Performance Evaluations and Yom Kippur | Managing Greatness
UNACO operatives are expected to uphold the law, not transgress it. CODE BREAKER
To be translated into a language where no word - ground, air - transgress, affirm - act, do - made sense. THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD
The author devotes separate chapters to the different situations in which transgression from the expected norm was most likely to take place.
That didn't happen, the nonhappening of which made the news because the transgressor of social norms was Clay Aiken. Archive 2007-07-01
At some point during the lower Devonian, the sea began to transgress again, and this continued through the deposition of the Port Ewen formation.
Thou wast called, and not miscalled, a transgressor from the womb. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
It he is right, then stage transgressions seemed to have spoken to immediate temptations in diverse ways.
Neogene marine transgressions, palaeogeography and biogeographic transitions on the Thai-Malay Peninsula. Biological diversity in Indo-Burma
In the past, transgressive behaviour, some of it sexual, was part of kinship rituals, the successful, and very expensive performance of which conferred great power on the participants.
This is weird, transgressive, mind-bending cinema, reminiscent of silent-era German expressionism, and seasoned with Hollywood musical parody.
Water capture, water loss, multifunctionality and temporal variation in aboveground biomass show evidence of transgressive overyielding ( PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
When a sick person died, the tohunga would blame it on the patient, saying they had breached tapu or had committed a spiritual transgression.
However, it has so far opened the Eyes of my Understanding, as to know that nothing but a sincere Repentance will attone for my Transgressions. The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen
He has no mandate to violate and transgress the natural world.
It is connected with the former of them by the recurrence of the same word, which in the first petition was rendered 'cleanse' -- or, more accurately, 'clear' -- and in this final clause is to be rendered accurately, 'I shall be _clear_ from the great transgression.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms
D.J. - and "transgressor" - not unlike a graffiti artist. NYT > Home Page
Debates about ethics have often accompanied well-known, not to say infamous, cases of alleged ethical transgression.
Society, in the form of the prison matrons, punishes Billie for daring to transgress its most covert laws and moral structures concerning women, especially black women.
The exercise is transgressive for both genres and alchemic in nature.
On the one hand, early modern Italy witnessed a proliferation of new techniques of representation that transgressed against earlier, more mimetic ways of seeing and listening.
“Cousin,” said the Lady Hameline, “I believe with you that the youth means us well — but bethink you — we transgress the instructions of King Louis, so positively iterated.” Quentin Durward
High peat cliffs on the coasts of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island are clear examples of coastal wetland loss by transgressing sea levels.
'O thou who dost sway mortal and immortal things with eternal command and the terror of thy thunderbolt, how can my Aeneas have transgressed so grievously against thee? how his Trojans? on whom, after so many deaths outgone, all the world is barred for Italy's sake. The Aeneid of Virgil
We know we have transgressed His laws, broken His commandments, and offended His holiness.
If the votaries of the Bible interpreted it faithfully, they would say: man originally transgressed, that is, made a mistake; for to transgress, to fail, to make a mistake, all mean the same thing. What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.
'Fesses he' transgresses 'by Emily Smith as well as David K. Truth to Power: Professional Athlete Tiger Woods

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