Sentences with phrase «attempt as an affront»

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.

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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.

It may well be that those critics are right who suggest that the model who sat for this portrait of the Man of Sin was the mad Emperor Caligula, whose attempt to set up his image in the Temple had deeply affronted Jewish sentiment, recalling, as it did, the sacrilege of Antiochus Epiphanes, which Daniel had described as «the abomination of desolation.»

The pacifist answer is not to say simply that tyranny is better than war, though some pacifists do believe that to live under Communism is less of an affront to human dignity and less of a lien on the future than to reduce a nation to a shambles in the attempt to «liberate» it, as was done in Korea.