Referee Nigel Owens awarded a penalty try but opted not to sin-bin Spice, ruling the scrum-half's infraction was only accidental.
But that amounts to the sin of smugness, not dreams of playing Athens to America's Rome.
Danie Rossouw had come in for Bakkies Botha, who was banned for nine weeks for head-butting Cowan in the opening match, but Rossouw was sent to the sin bin as early as the fourth minute.
Their goggles were strong and durable, but ugly as sin and uncomfortable to wear (think about those clear plastic, one size does not fit anyone goggles worn in many factories).
Hodgson converted to give Sale a commanding 13-0 advantage but Bath hit back after Sharks forward Cockbain was sent to the sin bin for fighting shortly before the break.
Witt was sent to the sin-bin for talking back to referee Steve Ganson, but Hanbury went over for Crusaders' second score.
Farrell restored a 10-point gap with another kick but soon Vyvyan was on the way to the sin-bin for not rolling away as Gloucester began to find their feet in the game.
Jarvis levelled the scores with a close-range penalty for the final score of the half but the fly-half was sent to the sin-bin five minutes after the restart after persistent Quins infringement.
But he followed it up by being sent to the sin-bin after back-chatting the referee once too often.
But Peters said priests have been empowered to forgive the sin, which most often applies to women who have an abortion, since 1983, when the code of canon law was revised.
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But the Obama administration seems to have committed a greater sin in the eyes of the American public: sending us a piece of paper with ten questions for the 2010 Census.
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We do need the John the Baptist types to tell Herod he was in sin, but my part of the war is in a different arena.
He then missed with a further attempt which would have levelled the scores but, after Saracens had lost hooker Schalk Brits to the sin bin, Saints came desperately close to grabbing victory with the final whistle looming.
But envy is a cardinal sin and something that ought not to be.
Monsignor Stenico told his interviewer that he did not regard himself as being in a state of sin because of his homosexual activities but was forced to keep them secret because of the church's teaching on the subject.
Byrne was in danger of going from hero to zero after his second-half sin-bin but the 14-man Ospreys defence kept the Blues at bay.
The Fijian was denied by a fine Leigh Hinton tackle but Thomas infringed at the resulting ruck and was sin-binned to reduce Leeds to 14 men.
Barkley missed three long-range penalties inside 12 minutes but when Sale's replacement lock Brent Cockbain was sent to the sin-bin for killing the ball he found the target with the 25-metre penalty.
Leicester fly-half Twelvetrees kicked a penalty to narrow the gap shortly after Smith was yellow carded, but within two minutes, the visitors also lost Ed Slater to the sin bin for a deliberate knock-on.
But the late sin-binning of Bath replacement Stuart Hooper allowed Blair to strike his fourth penalty and usher the Blues into the semi-finals of the competition.
Crusaders had Richard Moore sin-binned at the death, but that did nothing to dampen the euphoria of a win that, temporarily at least, lifts them from the foot of the Super League table, while Huddersfield were knocked off top spot by Warrington's 60-0 thrashing of Salford.
Johnson's side clawed themselves back to within a point but again played 20 minutes with 14 players after the sin-binning of Danny Care and Phil Vickery.
But then the home side lost back-row Robin Sowden-Taylor to the sin-bin for slowing down ball, Priestland kicking the resulting penalty for a 11-6 lead at half-time.
They finally managed to get on the board through a Flood penalty but a bad half continued for the visitors as they lost Ben Youngs to the sin-bin.
The center also elevated social expectations around problems such as binge drinking and violence, not via punitive bans and "sin taxes, " but by education and celebrity examples that helped to transform unhealthy activities into socially unacceptable activities.
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Lifeimi Mafi was sin binned for kicking out in the 74th minute but Blues were unable to take advantage of their numerical advantage as they chased a try which could have earned them a bonus point.
But as Wasps began to find their momentum, so Newcastle started to slip off tackles while the sin-binning of Oakes for a stamp on Lawrence Dallaglio's ankle did not help their cause.
In all investments the sin of commission, buying late and selling too early is easier to live with but you must never look back.
Worcester then lost Alex Grove to the sin-bin and, moments later, a late tackle gave MacLeod another chance but he again pushed his kick wide.
Bath had led 8-0 at the break thanks to Joe Maddock's early try but poor discipline set in and they had Hooper and Daniel Browne sin-binned.
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