But that amounts to the sin of smugness, not dreams of playing Athens to America's Rome.
Forgive me the sin of using round numbers, but 3% is close enough for the sake of my argument.
The goal is to punish people for the sin of being able to afford to travel south for the winter.
Courts in California and other states are allowing suits over the sin of helping a company pile on debt it cannot repay.
In all investments the sin of commission, buying late and selling too early is easier to live with but you must never look back.
Across the political spectrum philanthropy seems to have become the modern equivalent of indulgences purchased by the rich to atone for their participation in the sin of moneymaking.
If the new film commits the sin of entertainment, it's redeemed by a sense of life's contradictions and distinguished by surreal flourishes that include a pair of iguanas, slithery witnesses to Terence's mania.
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The sin of which he stands accused is that, as premier for 20 years of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state, he improperly used a private jet chartered by the Westdeutsche Landesbank, of which the state owns nearly half.
One can just imagine what he is going through for the sin of trying to shine a light into the dark corners of the guild that controls the flow of money, tenure, prestige, and publications in the insular world of Big Science.
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Thus, Power Point, in the hands of most business speakers, commits the fatal sin of at once making the speaker and his talk irrelevant to the audience.
My solution is to remove the fatal flaw at the heart of the system - the original sin of priority, because once you've removed priority you've removed the need for traffic lights and the need for speed because we're in no rush any more.
Selig obviously wants McCourt out, and wants to rectify what he clearly views as the original sin of letting McCourt into the rarefied club of baseball owners back in 2004.
Sadly, neither Gawker nor Bilton addressed the lesser sin of the group text message.
But because voluntary work would be encouraged and organised by the government, it avoids the let-them-eat-cake indifference that can be the besetting sin of the right.
Not so, according to Dr Parrott, who describes Dr Cole's views as irresponsible and accuses him of the same sin of selective publishing.
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Perhaps the greatest sin of liberals is their belief that it is possible for them to know everything necessary to manage the economy and society.
Because not only did most economists miss the crisis, they committed the even more pernicious sin of missing the recovery, essentially taking the Dismal Science to quadriplegic status from its prior condition of being merely hobbled.
But the text never allows that this sin of omission is the source of guilt.
The Pilgrim Fathers hoped for an earthly paradise without the sin and selfishness of the Old World.
Fundamentally, the besetting sin of American academia is not celebrity professors but hyper-specialisation.
The proverbial sin of omission, and this is what Akin was after.
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Now the Egyptian national coach, Bradley lasted until 2011 with the U.S. team, and had an overall record of 43 wins, 25 defeats and 12 draws, but he underperformed in the 2010 World Cup and thereafter, and supposedly played favorites, which seems to be the cardinal sin of all canned USMNT coaches.
At the same time, he announced the dissolution of SIN, el Servicio de Inteligencia Nacional (the National Intelligence Service), of which Montesinos was chief.
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He was doing a return at the same time he fought with his mind, with the sin and affront of even the passing thought.
Edward Peters, a canon lawyer at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, said Francis' statement seems to assume that the "sin" of abortion and the "crime" of abortion are treated equally under church law.
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The overworked Connacht defence had not been helped by the sin-binning of back-row Colm Rigney in the 32nd minute, after he tried once too often to slow Blues ball at the breakdown.
The introduction of scrum-half Alessandro Troncon as a replacement for the injured Paul Griffen on 49 minutes seemed to lift the Italians and the sin-binning of Manta for bringing down a maul turned the game in their favour.
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