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This rendered her passive, natural, intuitive and emotional, substantially inferior to men and more liable to trangress spiritually.
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In fact a willingness to abide by a standard we do not personally like or acknowledge its legitimate authority to mete out punishment to us when we trangress it, illustrates the non-subjective nature of the standard.
Carry-Over Thread 2007
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In fact a willingness to abide by a standard we do not personally like or acknowledge its legitimate authority to mete out punishment to us when we trangress it, illustrates the non-subjective nature of the standard.
Carry-Over Thread 2007
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He was the Heritage Minister and as such he must maintain high standards of behaviour and integrity and not trangress the limits of public accountability and respect.
Ok any captions - this is from a 2004 calendar Valleys Mam 2008
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The _Dutch_ I am told, have lately issued a Placart, forbidding all their Subjects (excepting Day-Labourers who are too poor to trangress it) to wear any Silk or Woollen Goods not Fabricated in their Provinces.
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The poor women, whose spirits must be worn out by heat and constant perspiration, require no doubt some restorative, yet as it is not the custom, they will faint under it rather than trangress this ideal law.
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In truth, while finishing this reading, the voice of Jacques Ferrand was broken, his impatience and temper were at an end; but, watched by Polidori, he dared not, could not trangress the least orders of Rudolph.
Mysteries of Paris, V3 Eug��ne Sue 1830
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He has let free the two bodies of flowing water, meeting together, Between them is a barrier which they do not trangress: Then which of the favours of your lord will ye deny?
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Pg. 84: But I trangress, [transgress,] "he interrupted himself,
Lucile Triumphant Elizabeth M. Duffield
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