But as the lawsuit alleges, the return on these indulgences was worth the investment.
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Explore the city's gourmet offerings, and then work off your indulgences with an outdoor excursion.
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As with religion, it comes with an elaborate list of virtues, vices and indulgences.
One could almost hear an echo of Martin Luther denouncing the sale of indulgences.
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The higher the initial allotment, the less companies have to make up by buying indulgences from pig farms.
Clothing and accessories are the most covetable indulgences for more than half of the consumers surveyed by RetailMeNot.
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As of November, coffee lovers could pay for their daily Starbucks indulgences using their mobile phones at 7000 locations.
Instead, aim to reduce your spending on small indulgences a little bit each month until you reach your budget target.
No element of the pay package--salary, stocks, options, loans, company car, subsidized housing and all other perks and indulgences--should be omitted.
The rock stars of the green millennium can buy their environmental indulgences so they can gorge good conscience on their carbon-rich world of private jets and lush estates.
People still want to emit, and they'll pay for their indulgences.
These kind of papal indulgences were sold in the Middle Ages.
Not since the Middle Ages, when monks peddled indulgences to the guilt-ridden at Eastertide, has there been such demand for a product of such questionable value.
The Pope's policy does not change church doctrine and applies only to the Year of Mercy, a centuries-old Catholic practice during which believers may receive special indulgences for their sins.
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Across the political spectrum philanthropy seems to have become the modern equivalent of indulgences purchased by the rich to atone for their participation in the sin of moneymaking.
He likens America's foreign borrowing to the sale of indulgences by medieval Catholic priests for instance, and wonders what will be the financial equivalent of the Protestant Reformation.
Consumers pay for these indulgences through surcharges on electricity prices, but politicians like them, which is why the Europeans and the British both indicated there would be more of them.
They seemed like extravagant indulgences at the time, but even those evolved into digital voice mail, laptops, DVD and Blue Ray players and all seem almost essential to daily life today.
Just as Luther criticised indulgences, critics of offsetting argue that the ability to buy retrospective forgiveness for sins of emission is no substitute for not sinning in the first place.
We have dug a few stumps possibly for slight indulgences but when the stump was out by the roots, we had to be rewarded and often we would feel like digging out another.
Through his extensive world travels, Dlish creator Verge Manuel made two keen observations: that people without deep pockets will still shell out for flavour indulgences, and that small baked items make people happy.
He wrote the controversial Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences and nailed its pages to the door of Castle Church, an act which many regard as having launched the Protestant Reformation.
The question is, are the costs of treating the illnesses and deaths brought on by those three indulgences higher or lower than the costs of treating those who live healthily but still inevitably die?
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From practical necessities such as an alarm clock or a new set of linens to fashionable indulgences such as high-end headphones, we firmly believe there is no reason for anyone--much less a college student--to fork over the big bucks to live the good life in the dorm.
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