Sentences with phrase «affront to public»

While not minimising the seriousness of what seemed to be a deliberate attempt to defraud the Revenue, it would not be an affront to the public conscience to award damages to the purchasers.

The dead shark, the lights - going - on - and - off: when each year's shortlist revealed some spectacular new affront to public ideas of what is and isn't art?

This generally pernicious and counterintuitive trend (facts are more easily accessed than ever) arrives just in time to offer comfort to those responsible for another irritating affront to the public's intelligence, one that's been creeping up in the world of cars for decades but which seems to have finally fully flowered — the willingness of carmakers to abandon the actual facts in favor of pseudofacts when naming their models.

It is rather against him who did not expect it that people have protested...» These words ring hollow in the face of such outright affronts to public sensibility as Déjeuner sur l'herbe [4] or Olympia.

Not exact matches

I hope that it is not the case, as such a determination at this time would be disconcerting to say the least, and an affront to our State Constitution and a deeply vested public.

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.

Not only is it an affront to the unsubsidised general public, at a time when supermarket prices are rising and wages stagnating, but it's also a reminder of the pocket - lining tendencies that contributed to the expenses scandal.

But, given the commission's appointing authorities, it's not surprising at all.Plus, its sole significant response to the Silver - Skelos convictions — an attempt to impose commission oversight on contact between public relations firms and journalists — is a grave insult to the Constitution, and would itself be an ethical affront anywhere other than in Albany.

«This predatory and unethical behavior is an affront to the basic human rights of all New Yorkers who deserve a safe home,» stated Public Advocate Letitia James.

With the latter we can balance the affront to civil rights against a legitimate concern for public safety.

In a recent post, she explained why putting the word «public» in front of «charter school» — which are funded with tax dollars but sometimes considered private by courts — is «an affront» to people for whom public education is a mission.

In this post, Carol Burris, a former New York high school principal who is now executive director of the nonprofit Network for Public Education, explains why putting the word «public» in front of «charter school» — which are funded with tax dollars — is «an affront» to people for whom public education is a miPublic Education, explains why putting the word «public» in front of «charter school» — which are funded with tax dollars — is «an affront» to people for whom public education is a mipublic» in front of «charter school» — which are funded with tax dollars — is «an affront» to people for whom public education is a mipublic education is a mission.

Placing the adjective «public» in front of «charter» is an affront to those who deeply believe in the mission of public schools.

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The affront to the Jackson Public Schools and the Jackson community is compounded by the fact that just last month, a state watchdog panel launched an investigation of the Mississippi Department of Education, expressing concerns about possible financial malfeasance, lack of transparency and oversight, and cronyism.

But Bloggers and social media users saw the installation of the public art piece as an affront to France — and the work was widely condemned.

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.

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.

(b) which exposes, or tends to expose, to hatred, ridicules, belittles or otherwise affronts the dignity of any person, any class of persons or a group of persons; because of his or their race, creed, religion, colour, sex, sexual orientation, family status, marital status, disability, age, nationality, ancestry, place of origin or receipt of public assistance.