Sentences with phrase «offence at»

I took offence at being accused of trying to railroad him.

(Actually, someone took offence at this sell, saying we were discriminating against people still living in cold conditions... oh, yes, they did.)

Sometimes people who have recently come to this country take offence at such inquiries, wanting to know why the asker wants to know.

They are poor at generating constructive solutions to conflicts, believing instead that aggression will be effective.19 This quickness to take offence at the slightest opportunity is reflected on the street in sensitivity to «dis» (disrespect), which can lead to swift retribution.

Up here only the police, the land owner or a security guard under the employment of the land owner can arrest someone on a trespassing charge, and only after a second offence at the same place.

Absent physical harm, will anxiety or offence at being misled or being tricked into breaching a rule of one's religious observance suffice?

«(4) No person shall be proceeded against in respect of a performance of a play or anything said or done in the course of a performance --(a) for an offence at common law where it is of the essence of the offence that the performance or, as the case may be, what was said or done was obscene, indecent, offensive, disgusting or injurious to morality.»

That is a harkback to school, a girls» school too, where our female, and feminist, teacher said that «Dear Sir» would do fine as women were usually too busy to take offence at something so trivial.

He has successfully represented thousands of clients charged with every type of criminal offence at every level of court in Ontario *.

(CPD infringement; internal sanction imposed of a caution and fine; RICS then charged the same offence at the tribunal; defence of cause of action estoppel and double - jeopardy based on Reg (Mandic - Bozic) v British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy [2016] EWHC (Admin) 3134; defence rejected).

An issue which arose in Norris v Government of the United States of America [2007] EWHC 71 (Admin), [2007] 2 All ER 29 — alleged price - fixing by Morgan Crucible and its former CEO Ian Norris being extradited to the US — was whether there was any offence at English common law of price - fixing before EnA 2002, s 188 came into effect.

[W] e lawyers pride ourselves on our capacity for ingenuity... At some level, we take offence at the idea of project management because it seems to reduce this wonderful profession of ours to little more than a series of steps, a collection of flow charts that anyone could follow... The day of the haphazard lawyer, who pursues a solution by intuition, experience and the loosest possible timetable, is drawing to a close.

This meant if a bidder had been convicted of a listed offence at any time in the past, it could be barred from bidding on a contract.

In the military jurisdiction this is an imminent risk if they are found guilty of an offence at a DCM.

R v DH: Represented a client with significant mental health difficulties charged with a serious sexual offence at trial and sentence.

Arguably, Article 7 (5) seems to suggest that the EU legislator is willing to do more than a (partial) codification of the ECtHR's case - law as it provides that the exercising of the right to remain silent and the right not to incriminate oneself shall not be used against the individual and it can not be considered to be evidence that they have committed the criminal offence at hand.

«As with all sentencing decisions, much will depend on the specific facts of the case and the circumstances of the offender and the nature of the offence at issue,» the Appeal Court said.

The man pleaded guilty to the driving offence at Harrogate Magistrates» Court, and in addition to the ban was fined # 415 plus costs -LSB-...]

Reply to Nick Stokes: I'm a long - term fan of Steve McIntyre but like Ron Graf I'm also a fan of Nick Stokes» persistent efforts to present the orthodox or consensus position in the best possible light — Nick is invariably courteous and relevant and doesn't seem to take offence at attempts to put him down.

Don't take offence at the title, it's google thing, I've pointed out clearly in the intro paragraph that you did not find exact planetary periods nor were you trying to find them when you did your PSD analysis.

It violates every mainstream journalistic code of ethics, and is a firing offence at reputable journals.

I take no offence at Monckton of Bencley for writing as a professed Christian on any subject he wants, but I do find it annoying that so many people take offence, even at the mere mention of religion as the time - honoured way of trying to establish «why it matters.»

If Dr Curry takes offence at Philip Haddad's comments, she is at liberty to delete them.

I do think that writers are now getting to the stage where they'll take offence at anything.

I hope you won't take offence at my questions.

Let's say he borrows a friends car just in case anyone takes offence at an unemployed person owning a car.

The film received some boos at its press screening, apparently because some in the audience took offence at the portrayal of a Sicilian police detective as an insensitive, somewhat clownish figure.

But actually, the early 90s is this film's spiritual home, and for all its absurdity, you can't really take offence at any of it.

The continent never took such great offence at the imposition of identity cards, nor mandatory local authority registration.

An unhappy Presidential Staffer, Stan Dogbe, has taken offence at a publication by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), over the murky bus branding saga that cost Ghana Ghc3.6 million cedis.

Given that most are keen to work for the betterment of their students, teachers take offence at the idea that they would work any harder due to financial incentives.

Opening a Pandora's box of feigned offence at every holiday is as childish and counterproductive as it is tiresome

However, more alarming is the fact Birmingham haven't managed a goal at home for over two hours, while the only player to have scored at St. Andrews in a Birmingham shirt this season is that of Craig Gardner, whom will sit out the side's next three league fixtures with suspension following his red card offence at home to Wigan Athletic last Saturday.

He has until 6 pm on Friday to respond to the FA, but he returned to Twitter on Tuesday morning to issue an apology to anybody who took offence at his comments.

Any white birds who take offence at a bit off a laugh do nt deserve to be considered as eye candy and should stay as cleaners.

Alas I can still remember our left back then Cashley Cole taking offence at a # 60k a week contract offer.

The usually calm and collected French legend takes offence at the insults aimed at him from the towering Italian centre back and then decides to aim a full - throttle headbutt into Materazzi's midriff, leaving him pole - axed on the ground probably wondering what day of the week it was.

LOL Normally Id take offence at such comments and offer to show you just how much a «Toddler» like me can school you in certain things, but as I normally agree with a great deal of what you say I can understand where such a patronising comment has come from.

The Arsenal manager seemed to take offence at our manager's celebrations, a situation which has reared its head this week following accusations of over-celebration by City players when they won the Manchester derby at Old Trafford on Sunday.

It started from a bookable offence at the opposite end of the pitch, but matters escalated quickly.

To require an objective legitimization of the saving event prior to faith is to take offence at the offence of Christianity and to perpetuate the unbelieving flight to security.

To require an objective legitimization of the saving event prior to faith is to take offence at the offence of Christianity and to perpetuate the unbelieving flight to security, i.e. the reverse of faith.

Later (as early as the beginning of the second century, and probably even earlier) there were people who took offence at this — people of Greek provenance.

This comes surprisingly close to saying that Manuel II got it right when he claimed that Islam had been spread by the sword; and it does prompt an important question: of those many Muslims who took offence at the Pope's use of Manuel II's words, why did so few of them respond that he was in error, since Islam is essentially a religion of peace?

The account of the rejection of Jesus at Nazareth records that the people took offence at him with the question: «is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?»

ssq41 you're taking offence at a comment that was made to tallulah.

And here is the rub: churches don't champion the arts because art isn't worried about offending, and Christians take offence too easily (some have just taken offence at being told that).

Adults, however, are inclined to take offence at being repeatedly told to do something.

If executives take offence at negative reports and Sell ratings, they may stop talking to analysts, depriving them of information they need for in - depth coverage.

Philip Longbottom, 67, from Shipley, West Yorkshire, will serve a minimum of seven years in jail after pleading guilty to more than 40 serious sexual offences at Bradford Crown Court.