Sentences with phrase «affront on»

All of this abuse excludes the public attacks on climate scientists which have been made, and continue to be made, by some newspaper columnists and many bloggers who see action on climate change as an affront on freedom or a socialist plot.

Apple just unveiled its plans for iAd, a mobile advertising platform connected to the iPhone — a direct affront on Google's bread and butter industry.

The judge also added that the Senate's decision to punish Omo - Agege for filing a suit against the Senate and for punishing him while his suit was pending constituted an affront on the judiciary.

The National President of the Union, Biobelemoye Josiah, said that the order that Uwakwem should be reinstated as the center's CMD when she had case of corruption and financial recklessness with the Economic and Financial crimes Commission in court was an affront on the country's rule of law.

$ 2billion Armsgate: Again, DSS Refuses to Obey Bail Order on Dasuki *** Action affront on Rule of Law - Lawyer.

The presiding judge, Justice Nnamdi Dimgba delivering judgement on the suit, held that the suspension of the Senator during the pendency of the suit was unconstitutional and an affront on the judiciary.

But nor have the public stepped up to this affront on their liberty - the authors use the example of a spoilt child to highlight how British citizens may moan about the limits on their liberty, but they always return to asked the state for help.

In a statement signed by the National Leader of the foremost Igala group, Major General Patrick Akpa (rtd), the organization described the attack as an «affront on democracy» and an «intimidation of a constitutional arm of government» in Kogi State.

A member of the House of Representatives, representing Irele / Okitipupa Federal Constituency, Mr. Mike Omogbehin, described the kidnap attempt as an affront on the traditional institution in Ondo State.

«The action of the @APCNigeria led federal government today by ordering the police to barricade ICC, venue of PDP Stakeholders meeting is an affront on our hard earn democracy and a complete reversal of the gains the PDP past government has established in Nigeria,» it tweeted.

All of these, of course, are religious statements — an affront on God's reign over the earth.

«These acts of violence against innocent citizens are an unwarranted affront on our collective safety and freedom,» Jonathan said.

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

Not exact matches

(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.»)

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.

And if the vituperative comments on my Facebook feed are any indication, people seem almost eager to be angry — as if we must all pick a side and take it as a personal affront when others don't share our views.

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.

It was the nature of the affront that those properly relegated to the past were insisting on being present and extending themselves into the future, all the while denying the Christian view of both present (kairos) and future (parousia).

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».»

Yet this touches on what makes Ezekiel a prophet to begin with; he forces us to question whether our discomfort over God's judgment comes not so much from fear of taking sides, or of being found on the wrong side, but from feeling affronted.

Speaking on marginalisation, the Rt Rev Stephen Cottrell (above), the Bishop of Chelmsford said believers should not be surprised or downhearted when «the sheer beauty of the Gospel is a shock and an affront to a fallen world».

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.

If you are ANY sort of Christian, you need to read up on the Mormon cult and find out what an affront to Christianity it is.

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.

Many people, on first encountering Darwin's theory of biological evolution, feel deeply affronted and refuse to accept it.

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?)

Evelyn wouldn't sit still for a second, she's at that 14 - month - old stage when being held is an absolute affront to her entire existence, so she squirms and hollers and thrashes but the second she's on the ground, she hollers to be picked up again.

I get where you are coming from though, I read about metal axe heads floating on water, shadows moving while the sun is not, men running faster than horses and fifty armed soldiers falling dead when they come against one of Gods prophets, it goes on and on, an outrageous affront to any human intelligence, I mean come on!!

If a pagan strikes one of the Christians, he is put to death on the spot or forced himself to bear to the church of the place an offering of a gold or silver hand according to the quality of the person affronted.

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

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.

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.

This recent ruling has global media commentators on all sides of the political aisle debating whether this issue is an affront to religious freedom or a victory to protect the foreskins of young male babies around the world.

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.

The inaction was a «homer» moment and an affront to coaches everywhere on every level.

Ozil looked affronted when Liverpool had the temerity to tackle him, Giroud had rubber boots on and nothing could stick, Wilshere lost his rag and discipline and our defence chose this game to collectively look like rank amateurs.

The affront wheels are anti shock and thus provide a smooth ride your child even on uneven surfaces.

On assumption into office in January 2009, Barrack Obama vowed to close down Guamtanamo as an indignity and an affront to the human rights beliefs and principles of the United States

Such an affront to sovereignty, officials in Quito went on, is reminiscent of the colonial era — a charge that supporters of Assange (camped outside the embassy) were quick to pounce upon, along with a set of countries in Latin America (most notably Argentina and Venezuela) whose relations with London are already pretty sour.

London bus workers in seventeen bus companies will still be on strike tomorrow (Friday 22 June) despite a high court injunction which Britain's largest union, Unite branded an «affront to democracy.»

«To me, it is an affront when a Peer says that he thought his peerage was a reward for his success as a composer and he did not expect to attend debates and vote on policy issues.

«This assault on our values is an affront to all New Yorkers and we need to take action against it.»

Or does he agree with the vast majority of Americans that the construction of this project at its current site it a direct affront to the memories of those who perished on 9/11?»

I say it is disrespectful to the thousands who died on 9 - 11 and their families, insulting to the thousands of troops who've been killed or injured in the ensuing wars and an affront to American people.

Referring to SpAds as «creatures in the undergrowth» he warned that it was a «constitutional affront» the way some ordered the ministers who are supposed to be their bosses about and took on powers for themselves.

«In essence, we are saying that we have a valid appeal before your lordships at the Supreme Court», saying for the tribunal to proceed with hearing on the matter would amount to an affront and disrespect to the judicial hierarchy.

Carl Paladino says its an affront to those murdered on 9/11.

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.