original sin

Example Sentences

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The invasion “was the original sin,” said Emile Hokayem, a senior fellow for Middle East security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a British think tank.

From New York Times

The United States made some terrible decisions after the original sin of the invasion.

From Washington Post

If slavery is our nation’s original sin, so, too, is its treatment of Native Americans — slaughtering them, taking their land, herding them onto reservations.

From Washington Post

Calvinists believed in the equality of believers but not women, whom they saw as responsible for original sin.

From Los Angeles Times

But the Democratic Party had no way to resolve or address America's original sin, chattel slavery.

From Salon