What's the difference between karma and sin?

Karma


Definition:

  • (n.) One's acts considered as fixing one's lot in the future existence. (Theos.) The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect; the theory of inevitable consequence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I happen to know that he’s hanging out with somebody that’s a purely poisonous predator now — and that’s karma,” said the Croz.
  • (2) A few monks came down, and gave a class on karma and why bad things happen to good people, and I found answers I had been looking for.
  • (3) [Belief in] karma makes people submissive; that’s how the country is run.” For Weerasethakul, this issue is no longer simply aesthetic: after the 2014 military coup , it’s one of political urgency.
  • (4) He's a firm believer in karma, and says that after plenty of rough times he's never been happier.
  • (5) It was only quite late in the day that I realised that somebody on my own team had been killed.” That someone was a 34-year-old Sherpa called Pasang Karma Sherpa.
  • (6) Hugh Lanning ( Chair, Palestine Solidarity Campaign), Maxine Peake, Brian Eno, Miriam Margolyes, Ken Loach, Benjamin Zephaniah, Paul Laverty, Ahdaf Soueif, Dr Karma Nabulsi
  • (7) If you are a “dead beat” dad then karma is a cruel mistress.
  • (8) In this case one can expect a greater emphasis on meditation, breathing and cleansing techniques, along with devotional practices such as mantra chanting, tuition in philosophy, and karma yoga (community service).
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kandi Sherpa, widow of Pasang Karma Sherpa, who was killed in the 2014 avalanche on Everest, beneath portraits of her husband in her home in Nepal.
  • (10) We are treating it as if it’s cultural – we don’t want to offend people – and that is wrong.” Pointing out that numbers of teenage girls disappear every summer from British schools, Sanghera said that Karma Nirvana had recently written to every school in West Yorkshire inviting them to a free educational event, but that only two schools turned up.
  • (11) I wonder, however, how karma will play to a million children, orphaned by Aids?
  • (12) This year they renamed it the Pasang Karma trek and pledged to donate the profits to his widow, Kandi Sherpa and her three children.
  • (13) Karma Nirvana, a charity that supports victims, said its helpline dealt with more than 6,700 calls about forced marriage and honour-based violence last year, with its busiest months during the school holidays.
  • (14) For example: "I hope she has an unfortunate death like Stephen Gately as karma that she deserves for her 'sleazy lifestyle'."
  • (15) It would be just awful karma to throw a party and have somebody die there.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Grace Jones at New York’s Studio 54 nightclub in 1978.
  • (16) I really believe that will happen, I believe in karma and I believe in hard work and I don't believe in like, I don't know."
  • (17) The book's title isn't supposed to suggest feminism ever went away – groups as disparate as Justice for Women, The Fawcett Society, Southall Black Sisters and Karma Nirvana have been working for women's rights for decades now.
  • (18) These are: action (karma), direct perception, emptiness, and dependent arising.
  • (19) Patients currently presenting for treatment of mental disorder may describe their illness with reference to these concepts, but they also rely on other indigenous traditional concepts such as astrology, karma, the effects of other humoral relationships, such as semen loss and so forth; or they may rely on ideas derived from cosmopolitan medicine or both.
  • (20) If the prime minister lasts another two years, it will only be because both men are happy for her to absorb the toxic karma of Brexit negotiations before they make their move.

Sin


Definition:

  • (adv., prep., & conj.) Old form of Since.
  • (n.) Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission.
  • (n.) An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners.
  • (n.) A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
  • (n.) An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
  • (n.) To depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God to man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by actual transgression or by the neglect or nonobservance of its injunctions; to violate any known rule of duty; -- often followed by against.
  • (n.) To violate human rights, law, or propriety; to commit an offense; to trespass; to transgress.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Molsidomine and SIN-1 were tested in a thrombosis model in which thrombi are produced in small mesenteric vessels.
  • (2) These results support a hypothesis which proposes that ancestral SIN virus diverged into two distinct groups.
  • (3) Our studies show that SIN-1 and C87-3754 exert beneficial effects in a 6-h model of myocardial ischemia-reperfusion.
  • (4) Antibodies to all viruses were detected, and namely in these frequencies: SIN 0.9%, WN 16.9%, TAH 41.5%, CVO 23.1% and TBE 8.5%.
  • (5) As the later Spark might have said, a mortal sin against the commandment to love beauty wherever one may find it.
  • (6) The direct acting stimulants of soluble guanylate cyclase, sodium nitroprusside and SIN-1 (3-morpholino-sydnonimine), also increased the cGMP content of endothelial cells by 9.4 and 7.2 times, respectively.
  • (7) In superfused precontracted strips of rabbit aorta, methylene blue (MeB) or pyocyanin (Pyo, 1-hydroxy-5-methyl phenazinum betaine) at concentrations of 1-10 microM inhibited relaxations induced by endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF), glyceryl trinitrate (GTN), S-nitroso-N-acetyl-penicillamine (SNAP) or 3-morpholino-sydnonimine (SIN-1).
  • (8) The likes of almond, blackberry and crocus first made way for analogue, block graph and celebrity in the Oxford Junior Dictionary in 2007, with protests at the time around the loss of a host of religious words such as bishop, saint and sin.
  • (9) These prostanoids were measured in platelets and endothelial cells alone or during their interaction, in the absence or presence of SIN-1.
  • (10) The haemodynamic effects of N-carboxy-3-morpholino-sydronimine-ethylester (molsidomine, SIN 10, Corvaton) were studied in anaesthetized mongrel dogs.
  • (11) The results indicated that both Sin B and Sal have inductive actions on drug metabolizing-phase I and phase II enzymes in mice and rats.
  • (12) Ten women with SIN were bilaterally salpingectomized.
  • (13) Analysis of the relationship between the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of SIN-1 suggests that an active metabolites is involved.
  • (14) The guanidine 3', 5'-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP) content (an index of EDRF production) was determined by radioimmunoassay under basal conditions and after acetylcholine (10(-5) M), bradykinin (10(-5) M) and SIN-1 (10(-4) M) stimulation.
  • (15) sin- mutants (defining six genes) were identified because they express HO in the absence of particular SWI products.
  • (16) We studied the effects of intracoronary injections of SIN-1 (0.8 mg), the active metabolite of molsidomine, on coronary artery diameters and coronary stenoses.
  • (17) Sessions included "naming the sin, lifting the shame" and "normal sinfulness or a sickness".
  • (18) The nitric oxide donor compound, 3-morpholinosydnonimine (SIN-1), was equipotent at relaxing the central and peripheral airways.
  • (19) Oxyhaemoglobin used for the assay of NO, inhibited the relaxation by SIN-1, but did not reduce vessel relaxations induced by GTN or iloprost, a stable prostacyclin analogue.
  • (20) A degraded SIN-1 solution that did not release NO was unable to block NMDA receptors.

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