Sentences with phrase «as affronts»

When Murray first began making her raucous, eccentrically shaped, often multi-part paintings, during the decade under review, their burgeoning, layered shapes, sci - fi images, and, often, high - key color, made them read at once as affronts to the reductive qualities of minimalism and as aesthetic challenges to the mass - culture quotations of Pop art.

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.

Many biotech entrepreneurs and investors flooded Twitter over the weekend with posts denouncing the order as an affront to liberty and a sure - fire way to squash innovation.

The notion of the human individual as a rational, self - legislating being has been challenged as an affront to the human connection both with history and with nature.

Having created the myth of the black's extraordinary sexual prowess, the white male interprets such a case as an affront to his ego, his virility and his property.

The pivotal issue captured the attention of both black and white leaders was that the system of apartheid stood as an affront to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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.

Since the HHS mandate invades the religious freedom of people who regard abortion or contraception as an affront to the moral teachings of their faith, the correct constitutional outcome is to toss out the mandate itself.

Even when there is no intent to inflict harm, a law rooted in this view of dignity teaches that anyone who feels excluded by the law should see this exclusion as an affront to their worth as a person.

The Hittites also regarded the presence of ceremonial ritual of those blemished as an affront to the Gods [Encyclopedia Judaica]

One of the major causes of social conservatism is the fact that churches, schools, and other social institutions are so largely influenced by persons whose advantage it is to preserve the status quo and who are prone to regard any departure from it as an affront to Christian morality.

So framing things as an affront to god or a «sin» or however you wish to term this stuff is no solution, since the frame of reference is completely bogus in the first place.

It was replaced, Bossy thought, by a preoccupation with obedience to the Ten Commandments, whose transgression was understood in the first place as an affront to God.

Shameful, another vane person that fails to get the point of the article and instead interprets it as an affront to everything that he knows to be «true».

Please do not take my honesty as an affront; it is certainly not meant as one.)

«Given the extensive evidence before the SIAC that Y would face a real risk of torture if deported to Algeria, today's decision can only be described as an affront to justice and wrong.»

Western New York's two Republican members of Congress — Chris Collins and Tom Reed — offered staunch defenses of the controversial order, which New York Democrats lambasted as an affront to American values.

And more generally it removes legitimacy from a programe which stands as an affront to British values.

«We support Andrea Stewart - Cousins as the leader of the Senate Democrats and view any co-leadership arrangement as an affront to the progressive values that we champion.»

Joining a rally with de Blasio and other NYC leaders, Timothy Cardinal Dolan called Trump's move to strip protections from young immigrants Tuesday as an affront to Christian and American values.

Sagay, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, stated that Buhari would not be cowed by the Senate's action, which he described as an affront to the Presidency.

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.

NLC President, Ayuba Wabba in a statement in Abuja, Monday, described Maina's re-engagement and posting as Director to the Ministry of Interior as an affront to law and procedure.

An animal welfare group had challenged current restrictions as an affront to free speech.

Mr. Agyepong, by his posture, is perceived to have supported Mr. Paul Afoko, an action considered as an affront to the regulations of the party.

Andrew Cuomo didn't see this as an affront to democracy; for him it was just another case of maximizing his advantage and minimizing his risk, secure in the belief that not enough voters would take offense and act on it on Election Day to hurt him.

The group's Spokesperson, Iddrisu Salifu Protocol in a Citi News interview described the action by the three as an affront to the PNC's Constitution.

Former Gov. George Pataki joined the chorus of politicians, mostly Republicans, who have denounced the proposed center as an affront to those killed several blocks away on 9/11.

Police are still investigating the vandalism, which City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez denounced on Tuesday as an affront to the city.

Western New York's two Republican members of Congress Monday offered staunch defenses of President Donald J. Trump's controversial executive order on immigration, which New York Democrats lambasted as an affront to American values.

Mr. Agyepong, by his posture, is also perceived to have supported Mr. Paul Afoko, an action considered as an affront to the regulations of the party.

«PDP is on a voyage of total destruction and abandonment with the emergence of uncultured governor like Mr Fayose that lacks decorum, whose past records, attitude and public utterance are seen as affront.

«They took it as an affront,» says Gomez - Marquez.

Many japanese women take it as fundamental that men and women are different and rather than taking it as an affront, they take it as nothing more than a sign of attention and caring.

Meanwhile, Harvey's story is centered around the fascinating character of Zenzi, a revolutionary who sees Wakanda's monarchy as an affront to its people.

REMEMBER ME is a turgid excuse for a perceptive character study / romance that pins its hopes on a twist that is not so much a jolt as an affront.

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.

Moreover, it's not difficult to see how veteran teachers might see the Governor's proposed education reforms as an affront to their years of hard work in an underappreciated field.

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.

But one of the company's key concerns is how a Toyota plant in Michigan would be perceived — as an affront to Detroit's automakers and their employees, or as a gesture to bring manufacturing jobs to a state that is losing them fast, according to people familiar with the company's deliberations.

This means that there are some things that are just difficult to teach them, such as staying off the counters when there are interesting smells, that closed doors are not intended as an affront to them, and not to lie on your book while you are trying to read it.

Non-profit groups, who see the corporate vandalism as an affront to art created by the unknowns, take to the streets, and to blogs, to wipe out the offending corporate graffiti.

Second, developers tend to view any unintended skips, sequence breaks, glitch exploits, etc. as an affront to their One Intended Way to play the game, and will rush to patch these things out.

Still, tache does mean «stain» or «blemish,» and he, too, is concerned for painting as process and as an affront to business as usual.

Dore Ashton noted that the white canvases seemed untouched, and identified this as the source of their failing: they lacked the trace of the artist's hand, and this left them bereft of any reference or relevance to human culture and history.15 Herbert Crehan characterized the unpainted quality of the White Paintings as an affront, dismissing them as «incompatible with the needs of professional painting.»

Giuliani criticized Ofili's painting as an affront to Catholics.

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.

A push of the uncertainty button is taken as an affront to climate science infallibility.

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.

Not exact matches

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.