Sentences with phrase «affront to good»

The actions of the Appointments Committee are an embarrassment and affront to good government.

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If there isn't a good business case, then offering them would be just as much an affront to shareholders as it would be to taxpayers.

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.

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.

Their continued existence, and the violence and human degradation they breed, are a threat to stability and peace as well as an affront to our consciences.

If that's an affront to Rush and his ilk — well I guess that says more about Rush and his followers than it does about the Pope.

«The Scrooge - like approach of some councils to take Christ out of Christmas is a denial of the wonderful truth of the Christmas story as well an affront to this country's Christian heritage.

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.»

Once you begin to read [the Bible], if you're reading the prophets where they're talking about exchanging the poor for a pair of sandals, and what happens when you have a widening gap between the ruling wealthy elites and the poor masses who can't feed their kids, and how this is an affront to what it means to be human, if at that point you're like, «Well, is this inerrant?»

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.

We enthusiastically affirm that the good of the African peoples is an indispensable condition for achieving the universal common good, but we acknowledge that the life conditions under which many Africans live remain intolerable, an affront to the dignity of all humankind.

To urge people to pray for Mitt is an affront to all people of good will, not to mention that this is insanTo urge people to pray for Mitt is an affront to all people of good will, not to mention that this is insanto pray for Mitt is an affront to all people of good will, not to mention that this is insanto all people of good will, not to mention that this is insanto mention that this is insane.

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

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.

Doing so feels like an affront to all proper football sensibilities, but believe it or not the Jaguars won and could very well keep winning behind their Tebow - ass quarterback.

A trying man to fight under the best of circumstances, he seemed to Basilio to be an affront to Carmen's skill.

If her campaign tanks, it shall surely be seen as Divine Retribution for this blatant affront to all that is good, beautiful and kind in the world.

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.

But you know it's a lot better to be talking about it and trying to work through it than ignoring it because I think for a lot of people in this city and in this country, they feel that their history has been ignored or affronts to their history have been tolerated.»

It says the news, combined with the higher minimum wage is «an affront to agriculture and good farmers across the state.»

«These things are also proudly artificial and processed, so they re a good affront to the caution I use with most other eating,» she says.

The boy's shrewish, meth - head mother (Bosworth, 21) considers it an affront to their family reputation to be publicly embarrassed, twice, and enlists the assistance of her crazy meth - dealing brother, Gator Bodine (Franco, This is the End), to put the scare in Broker for good.

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.

Aside from George's sudden affront to Dr. Lang's well - being and marriage, back home the raccoons still aren't letting up.

Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.

Around that same time, the police union in Cleveland went into uproar after Browns wide receiver Andrew Hawkins wore a T - shirt emblazoned with the names of Rice and Crawford as well as a call for justice on their behalf; the union demanded the NFL franchise to apologize for the football player's supposed affront to men and women in blue.

A woman getting the better of him had to have been an affront to his masculinity.

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.

Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, and an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food.

Because so much of the exhibition lies in the realm of sci - fi, it's bound to perplex at least a good chunk of visitors — and people are already comparing it to Elisabeth Sussman's fabled, notorious 1993 Whitney Biennial, which served up an bracing dose of identity politics to an unprepared audience and drew an affronted response from critics hoping for safer fare.

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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.