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  • Lack of respect for elders in the African culture is a cardinal sin,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • In his only two explicitly theological works, De libero arbitrio and Hyperaspistes, both directed against Martin Luther's assertion that the human will is enslaved by sin,

    Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008

  • Here he mentions Luther's claim in his Assertiones that all the works of the saints are sin,

    Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008

  • Ez wuochs in Burgonden ein edel magedin, daz in allen landen niht schoeners mohte sin,

    The Nibelungenlied 2007

  • If all things follow from a necessity of the absolutely perfect nature of God, why are there so many imperfections in nature? such, for instance, as things corrupt to the point of putridity, loathsome deformity, confusion, evil, sin,

    The Ethics 2007

  •     My belly brought me, not without a sad weak sin,

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • The gentle queen turns pale — to hear those words of sin,

    The Fitz-Boodle Papers 2006

  •     My belly brought me, not without a sad weak sin,

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • The walls are hung with velvet that is black and soft as sin,

    10/01/2002 - 11/01/2002 John 2002

  • 'Cause you weren't the woman I once thought I'd met But I can't deny, that times have gone by Where I never had doubts or thoughts of regrets And I was a man when all this began Who wouldn't think twice about being there yet The black throated wind whispering sin,

    The WELL: Black Throated Wind John Barlow 2003

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