Seems to me you can overlook my small transgression and focus instead on the bigger picture.

Major Kerekes' favorite punishment was denying those rights for even the smallest transgression, causing many prisoners to lose touch with their families completely for years.

The trial room, they say, is a place where careers are permanently damaged, even for small transgressions.

The puritanical pastor leads confirmation classes and gives his pubescent children a guilty conscience over apparently small transgressions.

No matter how hard I tried, I would have occasional transgressions, sometimes small and sometimes huge.

If you look through my daily diary over the last 150 days, you can see a hundred transgressions big and small.

Soon the young Puyi discovered the absolute power he wielded over the eunuchs, and he frequently had them beaten for small transgressions.

People new to this country should adapt, Mrs. Wrigley said, but separating a mother from a child for a small cultural transgression is extreme.

Neighbors, quick to seize on the smallest transgressions of tradition, malign one another with cruel innuendo.

It can also be played as a warning to remind students how even the smallest transgression can be caught by the camera's roving eye.