Exempel på venial

• Similarly, simple venial mistakes or lapses in professionalism may be distinguished from those egregiously unprofessional behaviors that warrant serious remediation or dismissal.

• By contrast to these venial excesses, the number of striking omissions is small.

• The edition is not without its share of venial editorial slips.

• His only offence and a 'very venial' one, was infringing territorial waters, for which he would suffer by confiscation if caught.

• Nor does his capacity indicate anything more than venial thoughtlessness.

• On the other hand, it might be that the first refusal was very trivial and venial and might be met by a penalty of £2 or £3.

• The most serious crimes are punished by hard labour, and the more venial crimes by imprisonment in the second division.

• In all the circumstances, in all the baffling and perplexing uncertainties of these years, this may seem to historians a venial fault.

• I think this is hardly even a venial crime since they are not asking for public money.

• I refer to cases when the courts refused to convict when the penalty for some venial offence of stealing was capital.

• As a matter of fact this particular offence was a very venial one and will be amply compensated for by damages in a civil case.

• To use the language of theology, proof merely of venial sin will not suffice.

• If it is not presumptuous to say so, it was a venial offence.

• It is, rather, a purgatory where the nations may be cleansed of their venial sins of nationalism by learning the disciplines of co-operation.

• In the eyes of some of my colleagues, incompetence passes for a venial sin.