Sentences with phrase «as an affront»

Rowe's insistence on living his life when his family lay dead by his hand is seen as an affront by some.

The action of the security operatives have however been described as an affront on the rule of law which is one of the cardinal planks of democracy by Mr. Ahmed Raji, (SAN), lawyer to the former National Security Adviser.

«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.»

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

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.

The mayor may not want to say anything about the subways that could be interpreted as an affront to Cuomo, at least not while mayoral control hangs in the balance.

There are three interlocking reasons: Face coverings are perceived as an affront to feminism / women's liberation / etc... The fact that women (but not men) are forced to cover their face, is pretty much as naked patriarchal / opposed to feminism as you can get (heck, even most anti-third-wave-feminists agree that it's a valid reason to pro-feminism-protest and...

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.

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.

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 head of the Independent Firearms Association, which offers photos of Ronald Reagan shooting an AR - 15 that are «ready for framing,» told the Associated Press that gun owners viewed Colt's smart gun tech as an affront.

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.

sin is a word you use as an affront to your god and holds nothing for the victim... it has nothing to do with the acts against the child.

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.

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.

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.

Humanity is perfectible, and if we will only work together we will be able to remove «anything that can be represented as an affront or an impediment to the painless existence of men and women.»

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.

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.

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.

Over the years, men have worn turtle necks as an affront to the status quo of shirt and tie looks.

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.

They regard that kind of maneuver as both an affront to quality control at the university level and damaging to the real - world job - preparation work that the polytechnics specialize in.

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.

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.

That's not meant as an affront, but the fact is that large game makers are set up in different ways and work to different scales.

The monochrome for Rauschenberg was as much an invitation as an affront.

He viewed the image as an affront and took the action out of frustration.

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.

Indeed, one can now sue for religious discrimination with environmentalism listed as the affronted creed.

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.

European travel accounts, both male and female, are full of bemoaning and rage against the Muslim woman's face cover, which denied them the «right to see» — it was experienced as an affront by the «subject races» to the «superior races».

I PRAY that everyone referring to the» +» for volume control as an affront to Christianity is just trolling.

NEW YORK — Car horns don't get used very much in Canada, their toots and honks too often seen as an affront to our collective politeness.