Sentences with phrase «of affronts to»

This is only the latest in a long line of affronts to Amazon, especially now that Random House, the only remaining Big Six publisher who had no restrictions on Amazon allowing Kindle users to borrow its titles, has announced that it will now be carefully examining its practices in ebook lending.

Often the pastor will quote Psalm 105:15 as a way of showing that to touch, harm, or question «the Lord's anointed» is some sort of affront to God.

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.

In fact, when they aren't mentioned, that's also arguably somewhat of an affront to their memory.

Mr. Zwirner agreed to keep the sale confidential, according to the suit, because the sale would be something of an affront to the artist and might prevent Mr. Robbins from gaining access to her other works.Continue Reading

Mr. Zwirner agreed to keep the sale confidential, according to the suit, because the sale would be something of an affront to the artist and might prevent Mr. Robbins from gaining access to her other works.

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David McIntosh, the President of Club For Growth, a Conservative Political Action Committee, called the policy an «affront to economic freedom.»

While the American people clash on issues ranging from guns to taxes, what Comey sees as Trump's lapses in character and integrity are an affront members of all political parties, he said.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- For years, President Donald Trump pushed back against the idea of election meddling, dismissing it as a hoax and an affront to the legitimacy of his victory.

On one level, it looked like another in a long list of Obama White House affronts to Canada.

Despite my admitted stumble in the half - cycle since 2009, it's perplexing that the equity market is at the second greatest valuation extreme in the history of the United States, on what are objectively the most durably reliable valuation measures available, but it has somehow become an affront to suggest that this will not end well.

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.

The very existence of the Jewish people as a religious community separate from Christianity was regarded as a fundamental affront to the new religious community with whom Cod had now made his permanent covenant.

It was the nature of the affront that those properly relegated to the past were insisting on being present and extending themselves into the future, all the while denying the Christian view of both present (kairos) and future (parousia).

The very activity of preaching — the proclamation of a story that can not be known apart from such proclamation — is an affront to the ethos of freedom.

To praise capitalism in any form was an in - your - face affront to almost the entirety of intellectual establishments in the West, religious and otherwisTo praise capitalism in any form was an in - your - face affront to almost the entirety of intellectual establishments in the West, religious and otherwisto almost the entirety of intellectual establishments in the West, religious and otherwise.

The president of the university (sic) making a statement while denying insurance coverage to women is an affront; these religious nuts should be charged with intellectual fraud!

Faith may be affirming to this minority of folks in this country who are RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS, but YOUR ignorance is truly an affront to humanity.

For anyone to refute one's claim of being a Christian is an affront to their own claim.

The worst of it is that it's an affront to the Holy Spirit.

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.

However, if you are determined to twist everything I write into a personal affront, there is really not much chance of our having an honest dialogue, is there?

Orthodox Jews have been expelled from the military for wearing yarmulkes; a religious community in which all members worked for the church and believed that acceptance of wages would be an affront to God has been forced to yield to the minimum wage; religious colleges have been denied tax exemptions for enforcing what they regard to be religiously compelled moral regulations; Amish farmers who refuse Social Security benefits have been forced to pay Social Security taxes; and Muslim prisoners have been denied the right to challenge prison regulations that conflict with their worship schedule.

The proof of the Arab leaders» true attitudes is in their behavior, and their behavior to date gives us no reason to believe that they do not mean what they say when they routinely insist that the existence of «the Zionist entity» is an intolerable affront to Arab honor.

The idea of one person suffering for the sins of another became an affront to people's sense of justice and individual responsibility, and the prophets denounced it:

Will you choose to ignore those parts of the bible or will you be true to your faith and reject anyone who could believe such an affront to christianity?

Your replicating of sameness seems to be an affront in your knowledge base for knowing very little to just about nothing of anything worthy of resonating.

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.

Yet this touches on what makes Ezekiel a prophet to begin with; he forces us to question whether our discomfort over God's judgment comes not so much from fear of taking sides, or of being found on the wrong side, but from feeling affronted.

Finally, there is probably no point at which the spiritual life of persons — particularly young persons — is more affronted than by the fact that one's friends and closest associates either scoff at religion or are indifferent to it.

«The suggestion that thisdefinition amounts to «discrimination» is grossly false and represents an affront to millions of citizens in this country,» he said.

In fact, we might do better to point to the unknowability of God by using concepts that do not affront our common sense — and there are certainly enough unknowables (not lust unknowns, but unknowables) in the universe to do this.

For the Roman Church, the rise of state sovereignty was not simply an affront to the Church's temporal influence.

Even the word «gospel» itself was an affront to Caesar, when the «gospel genre» of the Roman Empire Caesar Cult is understood.

And their leadership initiatives, often involving strategies of nonviolent suffering and ultimate respect for being, constitute affronts to our usual notions of relevance.

Because those things are a greater affront to the dignity of women.

The paper says it is «an affront to human dignity and worth» to produce a class of individuals to serve as disposable soldiers.

Nevertheless, precisely because moral acts are relative in this way, in all sexual relations certain promises are necessary if the parties involved are not to harm one another, affront one another's dignity, or illegitimately rob one another of their liberty.

Speaking on marginalisation, the Rt Rev Stephen Cottrell (above), the Bishop of Chelmsford said believers should not be surprised or downhearted when «the sheer beauty of the Gospel is a shock and an affront to a fallen world».

«The Scrooge - like approach of some councils to take Christ out of Christmas is a denial of the wonderful truth of the Christmas story as well an affront to this country's Christian heritage.

Dementia is an affront to our values of hypercognition and economic productivity.

In interviews by e-mail, Heyman, now 68, said, «I personally doubt that Eshleman and I will be able to sort things out — wounds caused by backstabbing do not heal quickly, and the abuse of scripture perpetrated by [Campus Crusade] is an ongoing affront to the Word.»

In just that context he must renounce all use of force, turn the other cheek when affronted, and give his last garment to whoever asks for it.

If you are ANY sort of Christian, you need to read up on the Mormon cult and find out what an affront to Christianity it is.

Thus the war in Iraq, he claims, was justified not on prudential or moral grounds (Bowman is particularly dismissive of moral justifications for war) but because September 11 was an affront to our national honor and we had to hit back.

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.

Also, many of them sized the servants of the king to beat them and kill them, which was a direct affront to his honor.

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.

His message was a direct affront to the religionists of his time, for he spoke simply of God being available to everyone and of demanding only one thing, that people love God and one another as God loves them.

It had to do with the king's requested marriage annulment, which, if granted by the pope, would have been an affront to the Catholic royal family of Spain and thus the source of immense political problems for the papacy.