Word: sin
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...Proper Sin...
...blind eye to family and friends who are said to be enriching themselves at the public's expense. "What good is a Blessed Virgin Mary if she is surrounded by Sodom and Gomorrah?" asks one disillusioned official. In a December speech after the coup attempt, even Jaime Cardinal Sin, Aquino's most important supporter, warned of "a social explosion" unless Aquino swiftly defused "unceasing reports of the abusive roles of presidential relatives...
Against Clarkson Friday night, the burly newcomer spent six minutes in the sin bin for his role in two altercations with Golden Knights, including a four-minute roughing penalty for dumping Paul Donovan after the second period ended...
...Chelsea) said the House leadership is currently formulating a tax package to be presented to the floor sometime this week which will include a one-cent increase in the sales tax, raising it from five cents to six cents, an increase in the gasoline tax and increases in "sin" taxes on cigarettes and alcohol...
...recognize that the Soviet threat has been greatly exaggerated is not to commit the sin of "moral equivalence"; Western self-criticism about the phobias of the cold war does not imply a neutral judgment about the Soviet system. Quite the contrary: it is precisely because that system is such an abomination against basic human aspirations, against human nature itself, that much of what the West called "Soviet power" was actually Soviet weakness, and the instruments of that power could never have been all they were cracked...