Sentences with phrase «affront to someone»

While today, «enlightened» liberals espouse the harm to America's democracy when Black people exercise school choice, in yesteryear, educated and empowered Blacks were looked at as affronts to democracy.

The conduct of Parliament in Iceland is seen by many as a direct affront to democracy.

The fourth floor contains the most glaring omissions of important American painting and sculpture and the Whitney Museum's most egregious acts of self - censorship, suppressions and affronts to American art and to American artists I've ever seen - making this exhibition a ludicrous travesty.

This is only the latest in a long line of affronts to Amazon, especially now that Random House, the only remaining Big Six publisher who had no restrictions on Amazon allowing Kindle users to borrow its titles, has announced that it will now be carefully examining its practices in ebook lending.

Home secretary John Reid welcomed the judgment as a vindication of his position, but Amnesty International condemned it as an «affront to justice».

Do you take affront to everything, get offended easily, or think it's your personal crusade to «educate» those around you?

So I find that I have nothing but the utmost respect for those within our community that believe that my relationship is sinful and yet are capable of living in that tension and accepting me in spite of such a blatant affront to what they believe.

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

The Mopar junkies at Allpar managed to get their hands on FCA's release form for future owners of the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon, the newest 840 - hp affront to decency.

And their leadership initiatives, often involving strategies of nonviolent suffering and ultimate respect for being, constitute affronts to our usual notions of relevance.

By far the greatest affronts to taste, however, were the gowns worn by the ladies of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) chorus.

From the fight for equal pay to «locker room talk,» there was a deliberate affront to women in 2016, which means the Church needs the prophetic voices of women leaders now more than ever.

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.

From the fight for equal pay to «locker room talk,» there was a deliberate affront to women in 2016, which means the Church needs the prophetic voices of women leaders...

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.

But before Stephen A. Schwarzman, the chief executive of the Blackstone Group and one of Mr. Trump's closest business confidants, could announce a decision to disband Mr. Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum — in a prepared statement calling «intolerance, racism and violence» an «affront to core American values» — the president undercut him and did it himself, in a tweet.

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

And even the Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, was forced to comment not only apologising for the impact on the game of cricket which he described as «a game that is synonymous with a fair go and fair play», but also describing the impact on the nation, saying it was «a shocking affront to Australia».

And if in the end Creation Club proves to be a worthwhile opportunity for budding game developers, then maybe it's not such a terrible affront to gaming.

Dependency, which accompanies indebtedness, becomes an embarrassing affront to national sovereignty and occasionally gives rise to anti-U.S. protests.

Reason 5: Be Bold There was a time when people would have considered a girl in a bikini an outrageous affront to civilized conduct.

Performance Ann Dowd, Compliance The real - life story that inspired Compliance is so certifiably insane, such an apparent affront to common sense, that dramatizing it presented a Herculean challenge.

I've not yet had the opportunity, (because my experiences have always been with male friends, and that's a whole other dynamic) but I'd love to ask the random guy on the street who wants to know (essentially) why you don't love him (because, as we all know, black women dating non-black, ESPECIALLY white, men is a personal affront to black men) if he could really be honest and tell methat had I been alone he would've wanted to get my number.

It is only where the «affront to fair play and decency is disproportionate to the societal interest in the effective prosecution of criminal cases» that a stay of proceedings will be warranted (R. v. Conway, [1989] 1 S.C.R. 1659, at p. 1667).

John fought hard alongside MR in Lansing to defeat tax on services and other affronts to private property rights and REALTORS ®.

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.

What an embarrassing affront to Soldier Field and all that it stands for.

So even getting angry at our neighbor's dog or lying about why we were 10 minutes late for work is an infinite affront to the righteousness of God, and therefore, deserving of infinite punishment.

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

They technically did not break any rules, and such clear affronts to the national associations are much more common than in Europe.

Texting while breastfeeding, that's a hideous affront to gods of breastfeeding.

An Uncompensated Loss Is A Bigger Affront To Your Liberty Than Being Forced To Buy Minimum Coverage

It was the first console game to use cel - shading and as such should be burnt at the stake for such an egregious affront to gaming decency.

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?

David McIntosh, the President of Club For Growth, a Conservative Political Action Committee, called the policy an «affront to economic freedom.»

In our individualistic, post-sexual revolution age, it is a blasphemous affront to the dignity of personal autonomy to place an obstacle to another's pursuit of sexual fulfillment.

The very existence of the Jewish people as a religious community separate from Christianity was regarded as a fundamental affront to the new religious community with whom Cod had now made his permanent covenant.

The more deeply religious a state's demographic, so more loudly they condemned the terrible affront to society that was inter-racial marriage.

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.

Although, to do so is a complete affront to what the book actually says.

Now some women look upon the harem as a demeaning and sexist affront to women that the Biblical author should have denounced.

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.»