Sentences with phrase «cause offense»

Learn a little about the local beliefs and avoid scenarios where you may cause offense.

«I have huge respect for those who, like me, share a common passion for Nintendo and I want to make it clear that I would never use and I didn't use this terminology in such a context or way to cause offense,» he told Videogaming247.

To the average driver, there's not much that will really cause offense, but to the enthusiast, there's also not much to bite on.

The interviewer might make a faux pas without even realizing it, for example, and when the candidate flags it «they may realize their mistake and be horrified that they were potentially going to cause offense,» Walker says.

Still gonna lose a bunch of low scoring games cause the offense will be bad, but would be nice to see them make the other team's bats work for it.

They ask congregations to develop teens» capacities for «serious, articulate, confident, personal and congregational faith» in contrast to the neutral discourse about religion of the pluralistic public sphere or the strident religious speech of those who cause offense.

Evidently, Paul was willing to accede to this, as he did not want to do anything that would needlessly cause offense (Rom ~ 14: l ~ 21; I Cor.

God allowed him to suffer, because in the end Jobs faith did not waiver, and he praised the Lord, and said what did I do cause offense to you.

Despite wanting to participate in the conversation, he admitted to feeling unsure of how to ask questions or demonstrate his support for the women in the group without making a misstep or potentially causing offense.

The ability to speak truthfully without causing offense is an invaluable asset in the world of business.

The CEO of Estimize says you need to understand every part of your audience when discussing big data to avoid causing offense.

People need to focus less on being offended by what someone else believes (especially when it really does no harm except causing some offense) and be more secure in their own beliefs.

The early Christians were careful to avoid causing offense to others needlessly.

In the days after the speech, Benedict several times distanced himself from the words of the emperor that caused offense, noting that they «were a quotation from a medieval text, which do not in anyway express my personal thought.»

While I would avoid that term when it truly causes offense to people I'm in relationship with, I do feel it's important for the Church as a whole to aware of the term «Messianic Jew» and what it means once you dig beneath the assumptions about the title.

Conversely we get folks from N. America coming over here and causing offense without meaning to.

Neither can the solution stem from a politically - correct discourse out to avoid causing offense.

I hope Iam not causing offense.

The steroid era sure seems like it was the era of steroids, but it's still probably improperly named, since there were plenty of other aspects at play that caused offense to rise: smaller ballparks, multiple expansions in the decade that (temporarily) diluted the talent pool in MLB, and juiced baseballs as proven by studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and written about by Jay Jaffe.

They go to great lengths to avoid causing offense.

«Always keep smiling,» the actor says in response to writer Anthony Horowitz's apology for causing offense

Thankfully, Bodied only occasionally lapses into lecture or meta - commentary (there's one cringeworthy scene where Maya basically comments on her own place in the story and how the audience is meant to perceive her), instead relying on humor and character to make its point rather than dryly offering a treatise on what causes offense in America in 2017.

They also have to handle client concerns and convey them to the eLearning team, without causing offense.

I apologize if I have caused you any offense, and if anything I have said has come off as aggressive.

When I get wobbly I start chasing shadows, deciding that I've caused offense to pretty much the whole world.

Not exact matches

In an image we posted this week, we missed the mark in thoughtfully representing women of color and we deeply regret the offense that it has caused.»

«While I agree with Dove's response to unequivocally apologise for any offense caused, they could have also defended their creative vision, and their choice to include me, an unequivocally dark - skinned black woman, as a face of their campaign.»

He then signed off for the night, waking up this morning to offer yet another apology to all of India: «I apologize for any offense caused by my earlier tweet about Indian history and politics,» Andreessen wrote.

The New York Times also reports that United doesn't look kindly upon those who are «not properly clothed,» while American may ban passengers «clothed in a manner that would cause discomfort or offense to other passengers.»

We did not wish to cause any misunderstanding and apologize for any offense.

We deeply regret the offense it caused.

The case has been a cause celebre in Saudi Arabia, where proselytism is illegal and converting from Islam to another religion is a capital offense.

An investigation into alleged blasphemous comments by Stephen Fry has been dropped by Irish police because the remarks in question did not cause enough offense.

Why would any verbiage cause a real Christian to take offense?

When our freedom genuinely causes another harm (not to be confused with simple offense) then it is outside the bounds of true freedom.

I really fail to see the harm or offense that these boards cause.

It would be easy to identify the passages in the book that have caused the most offense: the section dealing with Mahound, which also deals with the whole question of the «satanic verses,» with reference to the well - known verses in the Qur» an (in surahs 53 and 21) that many commentators see as indicating a questionable Islamic monotheist compromise with Meccan polytheism.

Jesus appeals to his works of healing, but the Jews rightly insist that this is not the cause of offense, but rather his claim to identity with the Father.

Simon had no cause to take personal offense.

Causing a little one to stumble (lose their hope that God is love) is the worst offense in the Bible.

Whether his word is truth, whether he is sent from God — that is the decision to which the hearer is constrained, and the word of Jesus remains: «Blessed is he who finds no cause of offense in me.»

«A person commits an offense,» the code reads, «if the person has cause to believe that a child's welfare has been or may be further adversely affected by abuse or neglect and knowingly fails to report in accordance with Section 34.02 of this Code» (Section 34.04) This is augmented by another section that describes who is exempt from the provisions:

There is no need to cause unnecessary offense to folks who have already been so ostracized by the Church, no need to wave a red and white banner through yet another culture war.

If there is still resistance to granting that a psychological offense is sufficient cause for modifying the use of language, then recall that lawyers have long been conscious of the slippery nature of the English male pronoun.

Hence objectivism with a vengeance: the more religion could be taught as an exact science, the less offense it would cause.

I am happy to make the correction and apologize for any offense caused by my careless handling of the legal issues involved.

Kids with that name must get tortured and tormented and cause no end of offense.

But it ruled that the school board nonetheless passed muster under the secular purpose test of Lemon because the school board stated two other valid secular purposes for its policy: «disclaiming any orthodoxy of belief that could be inferred from the exclusive place of evolution in the curriculum, and reducing offense to any student or parent caused by the teaching of evolution.»

The kids are sure that Mud Puddle took offense at his name and caused trouble just to get even.

I've been doing a lot of reading about the dire state of affairs when it comes to rookie QBs who come from a spread offense, and it caused me to second guess myself on Marcus Mariota.