Sentences with phrase «affront by»

In what may be taken as an affront by the America First crowd, the old U.S. of A. descends into chaos pretty early on, while the two nations best equipped for the coming onslaught turn out to be Israel and North Korea — the former by building an enormous wall, the latter by extracting the teeth of its entire population.

It added, «The leadership of Arewa Youth Assembly has observed with keen interest the high level of lawlessness exhibited by Nnamdi Kanu since he was granted bail in June this year and the conspiracy of silence displayed by the Federal Government and its security agencies in the face of such affront by the IPOB leader.

The youth leaders said, «The Leadership of Arewa Youth Assembly has observed with keen interest the high level of lawlessness exhibited by Nnamdi Kanu since he was granted bail in June this year and the conspiracy of silence displayed by the federal government and its security agencies in the face of such affront by the IPOB leader.

I also remember discovering during one Easter vigil the almost physical distress of some Eastern Rite Palestinians among us who, as refugees driven from their homeland, were affronted by our incessant imagery of the people of Israel despoiling the Egyptians, and seizing vines and trees they never planted and cisterns others had dug.

No need to be affronted by this.

Thompson postulates that Marley's original fans and supporters came to feel personally affronted by his international fame as it separated him from his Rastafarian principles.

He seemed personally affronted by the row that his committee of MPs would do anything other than the right thing.

But Downing Street was so affronted by this ermine - clad rebuke as to threaten the upper chamber with punitive loss of powers.

He is one of the few politicians who was willing to take on Farage robustly, including in one Question Time exchange in which it was clear he was personally affronted by the Ukip leader's racially - tinged rhetoric.

«It is for this reason, Mr. President, that a higher obligation is imposed on you to engage Ghanaians and take steps to renegotiate with the Americans those articles in the Agreement that the overwhelming majority of Ghanaians are affronted by, and compromises their sacred sovereignty,» Mr Ablakwa said in his letter.

Activists and senior frontbenchers have been affronted by the nature of policy announcements and what they regard as the high command's unilateral style.

One group of dissenters, predictably enough, is Holocaust deniers, who seem affronted by the gathering of physical evidence to describe atrocities they insist never occurred.

Affronted by accusations that its wine contains too much lead, the French government ordered analyses of wines by some of the country's leading wine research laboratories.

Affronted by his perception of me as an unfair stereotype, and with a circle of friends and lifestyle that in no way matched that stereotype, I felt insulted.

Hopper's two hog - riding, inverted American dreamers are indiscriminately gunned down by passing yokels, presumably affronted by their long hair.

Amid all this fun but childish oneupsmanship, Knight and Hallstrom gently milk all the expected stereotypes for humor and conflict: The French are snobs with their hoity - toity manners and expensive food, and they're deeply affronted by the thrifty, tacky Indians with their colorful clothes and loud music.

Nudity may be construed as legal at any beach if nobody else is affronted by the nudity (Kalama case).

Affronted by the choice, art saboteurs and rock group the K Foundation created an award for the year's worst artwork with twice the prize money and awarded it to Whiteread.

Huvelle seemed affronted by the document.

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.

In the face of this, HMCTS no doubt feels affronted by the scepticism of domestic observers of its efforts — «Why do they keep saying that you can't even get reliable wi - fi in the Royal Courts of Justice?».

I am affronted by this mandatory pledge to do what a normal, «right thinking» person should do.

But, as I mentioned, Moto's touch is very light when it comes to skinning, which also means that you can rest assured you won't be affronted by too many options or the unnecessary bloatware offered by so many other Android manufacturers.

Many Singaporeans accessing the day's news feeds on 20 February 2018 as they sipped their afternoon kopi probably found themselves simultaneously baffled and affronted by the news that «Singapore agrees to UK request to not cane suspect if found guilty».

Not exact matches

NCR seemed particularly affronted that «by casting suspicion on Cardinal Casaroli's judgment and character, Pacepa undermines the integrity of the entire Vatican strategy between 1963 and 1989, knownas «Ostpolitik».»

Finally, there is probably no point at which the spiritual life of persons — particularly young persons — is more affronted than by the fact that one's friends and closest associates either scoff at religion or are indifferent to it.

In fact, we might do better to point to the unknowability of God by using concepts that do not affront our common sense — and there are certainly enough unknowables (not lust unknowns, but unknowables) in the universe to do this.

The doctrine of Jesus» «deity,» however it may be explained by sophisticated theologians, necessarily affronts Jews and appears as a repudiation rather than a fulfillment of their understanding of God.

In interviews by e-mail, Heyman, now 68, said, «I personally doubt that Eshleman and I will be able to sort things out — wounds caused by backstabbing do not heal quickly, and the abuse of scripture perpetrated by [Campus Crusade] is an ongoing affront to the Word.»

A call to abolish food banks completely was rejected by the report though: «We know that such a cry is based on the affront people feel for their fellow citizens who have to use food banks as a crucial safety net.

The angry Muslim confronted the merchant, who denied the charge; but as more and more people became involved in the argument, the Muslims of Bauchi came to suspect, not an indiscreet merchant's attempts at corner - cutting, but rather a deliberate affront to their faith» the sort of affront that would not happen if Nigeria were governed by Islamic law.

It had to do with the king's requested marriage annulment, which, if granted by the pope, would have been an affront to the Catholic royal family of Spain and thus the source of immense political problems for the papacy.

Even when there is no intent to inflict harm, a law rooted in this view of dignity teaches that anyone who feels excluded by the law should see this exclusion as an affront to their worth as a person.

If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (of believers?)

One of the major causes of social conservatism is the fact that churches, schools, and other social institutions are so largely influenced by persons whose advantage it is to preserve the status quo and who are prone to regard any departure from it as an affront to Christian morality.

I've always found it curious that Christians so passionately defend the sanctity of life, when so many seem to think that human beings are, by their very nature, an affront to God.

Much as we stress democracy, democracy is affronted on every hand by factors such as these.

Sin, by scripture is sin, an affront to God.

It was replaced, Bossy thought, by a preoccupation with obedience to the Ten Commandments, whose transgression was understood in the first place as an affront to God.

It is an affront that will remain on the record until all injustice is wiped away by divine intervention.

Poverty, far from being sanctioned by God, is a scandalous affront to a loving God.

It could be argued that such a synthetic religion would provide a suitable acknowledgment of the Supreme Wisdom behind all observable phenomena, and while properly respecting the visions and ideals of religious founders, would not affront modern intelligence by retaining what is plainly irrational.

This recipe — which barbecue purists would call heresy and an affront to the Gods of BBQ — makes it possible to have flavorful pulled pork during a busy work week by using a slow cooker.

They are an affront to all those who play by the rules.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer deemed Trump's DACA decision a «heartless» affront to Americans motivated by partisan politics.

He described the comments by the president as careless and an affront to democracy when he as the Commander - in - Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces should have known better.

Sagay, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, stated that Buhari would not be cowed by the Senate's action, which he described as an affront to the Presidency.

No 10 needs to recognise that life is difficult enough without complicating it further by taking affront whenever someone nudges the party line.»

To add to government's difficulty in cracking down on galamsey operators is the involvement of some Chinese nationals, whose activities were described by the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources Alhaji Inusah Fuseini as an «affront to the laws» of the country in an interview.

The Liberal Democrats» failure to deal with allegations of sexual harassment by its chief strategist Lord Rennard when they were made was a grave affront to the women concerned.