Sentences with phrase «affront to what»

Choice is actually an affront to what many education reformers were trying to innovate — compelling diverse families who live in the same neighborhood to send their children to a quality school.

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?»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?)

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.

I've come to conclude that universally for the church these are deadly to what is and an affront to grace!

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.

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

Immediately the motion was moved for the confirmation of the nominees, on Tuesday, the Senators took to their turns to lambast what they described as «affront» on the part of the executive.

«As a son, brother, husband and father, I believe that committing an assault against a woman is an unacceptable and unconscionable affront to our families and our communities,» he said in a prepared statement last Thursday, but avoided discussing what he thought Monserrate should do.

But to many people, the animal behavior perspective on art still seems like an affront to our idea of what it means to be human.

I suspect the answer would come back «no» as this might constitute an affront to «human dignity» — but it has never been clear (at least to me) how «human dignity» can apply to a pre-implantation embryo, and if the gene editing had corrected a gene defect, in what way would it be harmed?

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.

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.

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?

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), represented by Lisa B. Nelson, was among 22 groups represented in a «Coalition» open letter pushing back against what the Heartland Institute describes as an «affront to free speech.»

The Competitive Enterprise Institute, represented by Kent Lassman, was among 22 groups represented in a «Coalition» open letter pushing back against what the Heartland Institute describes as an «affront to free speech.»

The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), represented by David Rothbard, was among 22 groups represented in a «Coalition» open letter pushing back against what the Heartland Institute describes as an «affront to free speech.»

The John Locke Foundation (JLF), represented by Kory Swanson, was among 22 groups represented in a «Coalition» open letter pushing back against what the Heartland Institute describes as an «affront to free speech.»

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.

I am affronted by this mandatory pledge to do what a normal, «right thinking» person should do.

She also claimed aggravated damages for the affront to her dignity and exemplary damages in respect of what she alleged were the arbitrary, oppressive and unconstitutional actions of the police.