Sentences with phrase «affront in»

As someone who is very familiar with the countries around South and East Asia, and having family members living there, I do not take affront in the assessment that they are poor - albeit, they are increasing their wealth at healthy clips.

Your replicating of sameness seems to be an affront in your knowledge base for knowing very little to just about nothing of anything worthy of resonating.

(Here's Benjamin Franklin on the subject back in 1749: «If customers slight your goods... do not affront them: do not be pert in your answers, but with patience hear, and with meekness give an answer; for if you affront in a small matter, it may probably hinder you from a future good customer.»)

Not exact matches

Schwarzman: Bigotry, hatred and extremism are an affront to core American values and have no place in this country.

While the American people clash on issues ranging from guns to taxes, what Comey sees as Trump's lapses in character and integrity are an affront members of all political parties, he said.

In a wide - ranging interview at the conference, Icahn said he «take [s] a little affront, umbrage,» to Ackman's accusations, and genuinely believes in Herbalife's business modeIn a wide - ranging interview at the conference, Icahn said he «take [s] a little affront, umbrage,» to Ackman's accusations, and genuinely believes in Herbalife's business modein Herbalife's business model.

On one level, it looked like another in a long list of Obama White House affronts to Canada.

Despite my admitted stumble in the half - cycle since 2009, it's perplexing that the equity market is at the second greatest valuation extreme in the history of the United States, on what are objectively the most durably reliable valuation measures available, but it has somehow become an affront to suggest that this will not end well.

To do that that with false motives is an affront to God and in certain cases condems the person.

I will never understand why someone who does not believe in a God must always vehemently attack those who do, as if it were an affront to them as a human.

To praise capitalism in any form was an in - your - face affront to almost the entirety of intellectual establishments in the West, religious and otherwise.

Faith may be affirming to this minority of folks in this country who are RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS, but YOUR ignorance is truly an affront to humanity.

Orthodox Jews have been expelled from the military for wearing yarmulkes; a religious community in which all members worked for the church and believed that acceptance of wages would be an affront to God has been forced to yield to the minimum wage; religious colleges have been denied tax exemptions for enforcing what they regard to be religiously compelled moral regulations; Amish farmers who refuse Social Security benefits have been forced to pay Social Security taxes; and Muslim prisoners have been denied the right to challenge prison regulations that conflict with their worship schedule.

The proof of the Arab leaders» true attitudes is in their behavior, and their behavior to date gives us no reason to believe that they do not mean what they say when they routinely insist that the existence of «the Zionist entity» is an intolerable affront to Arab honor.

«The suggestion that thisdefinition amounts to «discrimination» is grossly false and represents an affront to millions of citizens in this country,» he said.

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 thiIn 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 thiin the universe to do this.

Nevertheless, precisely because moral acts are relative in this way, in all sexual relations certain promises are necessary if the parties involved are not to harm one another, affront one another's dignity, or illegitimately rob one another of their liberty.

Are these men in this story an affront to you because they choose to believe in something bigger than themselves?

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.»

In just that context he must renounce all use of force, turn the other cheek when affronted, and give his last garment to whoever asks for it.

It's the God honest, truth that all the honest will tell you: Brokenness affronts us no matter what's in front of us, pain accompanies us at every turn, suffering stalks us like all the praying are prey.

Thus the war in Iraq, he claims, was justified not on prudential or moral grounds (Bowman is particularly dismissive of moral justifications for war) but because September 11 was an affront to our national honor and we had to hit back.

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.

The idea that man was made in the image of God was an affront to the belief that Soviet power could make a New Man.

It takes little imagination to grasp why stationing American troops in Saudi Arabia, the Muslim holy land, or attacking Iraq (and hence Baghdad), the seat of the ancient caliphate, is an affront to Muslims.

It may well be that those critics are right who suggest that the model who sat for this portrait of the Man of Sin was the mad Emperor Caligula, whose attempt to set up his image in the Temple had deeply affronted Jewish sentiment, recalling, as it did, the sacrilege of Antiochus Epiphanes, which Daniel had described as «the abomination of desolation.»

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?)

In this is rooted their sense of sin, not simply as ordinary infraction of the moral standards of a primitive society, but as rebellion against God and an affront to his holiness.

If what is required affronts the Christian conscience of the worker, or if what is being produced in it is clearly not useful but harmful to society, one ought to look elsewhere for employment.

In the past feudalism and slavery have been thus identified with the will and favor of God, and it was assumed that any change in the economic status quo was an affront to biblical teaching and to Christian moralitIn the past feudalism and slavery have been thus identified with the will and favor of God, and it was assumed that any change in the economic status quo was an affront to biblical teaching and to Christian moralitin the economic status quo was an affront to biblical teaching and to Christian morality.

Such an affront, he argues, came in the past as it comes now from that brash and unbaptized libeler of human reason the perennial harlequin, the votary of the ridiculous, the extravagant, the «fanciful.»

So framing things as an affront to god or a «sin» or however you wish to term this stuff is no solution, since the frame of reference is completely bogus in the first place.

Swecker points out that, when faced with free - spirited heretics in their midst, religion and science have always adopted the gambit of medieval popes and princes — have prudently laid aside their chronic rivalries and conspired to suppress the affront to their authority.

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 will take decades — if God in his grace restrains the principalities and powers that seek nuclear war — for the new abolitionists to persuade militaristic America that preparation for nuclear holocaust, like slavery, is an affront to the Creator.

The pacifist answer is not to say simply that tyranny is better than war, though some pacifists do believe that to live under Communism is less of an affront to human dignity and less of a lien on the future than to reduce a nation to a shambles in the attempt to «liberate» it, as was done in Korea.

The inquisition, The crusades («murderers bearing crosses» as Peter Beagle puts it), the enslavery of millions of indigenous people, the widespread teaching in parochial schools everywhere of the «perfidy» of the Jews, and uncounted other affronts to human civilization.And a billion people, many starving while the church enjoys incredible wealth, froth at the mouth and bleed from the eyeballs with maniacal love for the pope.

But Luther soon got on to what so affronted him, and what had been an annoyance in the Church for centuries: misuse of ecclesiastical disciplines.

They define with precision the particular tendencies in corporate life which are leading to disaster, because they are an affront to the Law of God — to the principles upon which the moral structure of the universe rests.

Fervency in devotion; frequency in prayer; aspiring after the love of God continually, striving to get above the world and the body; loving silence and solitude, as far as one's condition will permit; humble and affable to all; patient in suffering affronts and contradictions; glad of occasions of doing good even to enemies; doing the will of God and promoting His honour to the utmost of one's power; resolving never to offend him willingly, for any temporal pleasure, profit, or loss.30

But it is definitely not for the three other people in my house who see the existence of all things crimini, portobello and shiitake as a personal affront.

I wouldn't bet on it given he picked against the Warriors for years because he didn't like their new style of play and thought that it was an affront to basketball the way it was played in the 80's and 90's.

Romeu is coming with Premier League pedigree and can sit affront the back three and help intervene to cut off the opposition moves early on — forcing the opponents to errors that can be then be better dealt with in the defending department.

You might've noticed that NCAA President Mark Emmert trying to convince you that a $ 64 lunch for a University of Virginia basketball player is «an affront» and part of a «systematic failure» in college basketball.

When Ronaldo scores that goal at 33 years old, it's almost an affront to everything we know about the trajectory of a player's career and the concept of aging in sports.

They would continue to find motivation in perceived affronts throughout the year, which helped keep them focused throughout the season.

Frankfurt had just grabbed their second — the fools, the fools — and Madrid, though they were in no danger of losing the game, seemed to take affront.

The USGA deal with FOX has been widely panned, in part because that network has never done golf, in part because of how the bidding was handled, and in part for how it was announced (a release the night before the start of the PGA Championship, generally considered a affronting attempt to steal that tournament's shine).

They are playing in Jerryworld's diametric opposite, somehow both a product of the NFL's empire and an affront to it.