Sentences with phrase «at as affronts»

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.

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The angry Muslim confronted the merchant, who denied the charge; but as more and more people became involved in the argument, the Muslims of Bauchi came to suspect, not an indiscreet merchant's attempts at corner - cutting, but rather a deliberate affront to their faith» the sort of affront that would not happen if Nigeria were governed by Islamic law.

The inquisition, The crusades («murderers bearing crosses» as Peter Beagle puts it), the enslavery of millions of indigenous people, the widespread teaching in parochial schools everywhere of the «perfidy» of the Jews, and uncounted other affronts to human civilization.And a billion people, many starving while the church enjoys incredible wealth, froth at the mouth and bleed from the eyeballs with maniacal love for the pope.

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.

At the center is a core, known as a singularity, that is infinitely small and dense, an affront to all known laws of physics.

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?

With Brendan Gleeson as patriarch Colby and Michael Fassbender as the troubled heir to his travellers» caravan throne, the tone is country miles from David Jason's bucolic idyll, which the Cutlers affront at every turn.

Not only will this put in place an awful evaluation system that we oppose for the reasons stated in our letter, it is also an affront at collective bargaining and our ability as educators to have meaningful input into the governance of our schools.

But Sandra Bullock is quite sharp as his wife, a princess whose seething intolerance explodes at this latest affront to her insular upper - class bubble.

Nudity may be construed as legal at any beach if nobody else is affronted by the nudity (Kalama case).

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.

As someone who is very familiar with the countries around South and East Asia, and having family members living there, I do not take affront in the assessment that they are poor - albeit, they are increasing their wealth at healthy clips.

KeystoneXLNow.com takes aim at President Obama for failing to approve the Keystone XL project (even though the White House just announced approval of the southern leg today), calling it «an affront to millions of Americans out of work and an outrage to millions more who are paying higher energy costs as a result of this administration's policies.»

«It would be an affront to all victims of crime or misconduct to say, as the application judge (Justice Boswell) has said, that the rights of the complainant are not at stake in a criminal trial or complaint of misconduct.