Sentences with phrase «offense at»

You need to say this in a way that the employee will understand that not take offense at it.

If you know it's coming, you're liable to already be on the defensive and ready to take offense at the person's first greeting.

Beyond offense at the idea that companies might use bitcoin's original symbolism for a new chain, they argued «bitcoin» should be measured by its adherence to decentralization and cooperative development to prioritize the strength of the code.

«Ive takes offense at the idea that he hasn't already thought of every detail during the years of planning Apple Park.»

In reviewing the trial judge's order, the Court of Appeals took offense at the comment, feeling that the trial court had unfairly lashed out at the appellate judges because precedent precluded the judge from resolving the case as he saw fit.

The applicable Illinois statute set the maximum penalty for such an offense at a $ 500 fine, one year in jail, or both.

Per state statute, you can face a first - time DUI if you have never been charged with such an offense at any time in the past (including out - of - state DUI charges), been convicted of a «wet reckless» or similar offense, or have been charged 10 years or more after a previous DUI conviction.

In contrast to Ward and Albritton, who take offense at the term «patent trolls,» at least one law firm has gone on the offensive against so - called trolls.

Let's hope no one took offense at the comparison of Clinton to a trial lawyer.

The average person honestly doesn't care about the specific wording of the IPCC report (please don't take offense at this) but they want to know if global climate change is going to affect their lives.

Doc, no offense taken, and I hope you will not take offense at my amusement with your own previous reply, which I have now had time to work through a bit.

Rob, quite understandable, takes offense at being labeled a doom monger delighting in the death of others, and he claims to have not met anyone in the movement who fits that description.

I take offense at the «war on women» BS — it's just «progressive» propaganda, like so much of the drivel drooling from their mouths.

Climate realists, like me, take huge offense at being called «deniers» because of the connotation with Holocaust deniers.

what I have is interest in public health issues, and a small amount of expertise and knowledge in that topic, and I take offense at people exploiting the mental fragility of the psychogenically ill for ulterior motives.

You might be, and I'll never take offense at someone who knows more than I do on a particular aspect of science seriously trying to help me improve in a constructive way.

I took no offense at your comments, which I didn't think were particularly harsh.

They also seem to take offense at the fact that Dr. Pierpont, in order to study the effects of wind turbines, sought out the victims thusly:

Humor aside, I take offense at being labeled a denier, a climate criminal, a flat - earther, etc... These context loaded labels are intentionally used to imply that I refuse to evaluate the facts supporting AGW as spoon - fed to the masses by Gore, et al..

One therefore might perfectly reasonably use «acidify» to mean lessen the alkalinity of a solution, which historical context tells us has been done by professional chemists for many years, certainly long before omnologos chose to take offense at this usage, or was even born.

Some Dartmouth College doctoral candidates doing research in Greenland took offense at the European Commission's attempt earlier this year at using viral video as a recruiting tool for exciting girls about careers in science.

Incidentally, I get the impression that many people consider the answer to E to be a policy decision and take offense at scientists suggesting policy.

My skull is indeed reasonably thick — as is my skin, as I simply decline to take offense at anything anyone may say.

In addition to their anger over the proscribed action at Cooper Union, student leaders also took offense at being given a reduced role in the disciplinary process and in the drafting of the document itself.

Nonetheless, there's something undoubtedly amusing about the ease with which the Church takes offense at what are often cheap shots designed for maximum exposure, a sort of comic replaying of the tragic consequences of the controversy around the Jyllands - Posten Muhammad cartoons of 2005.

New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani also famously took offense at the controversial exhibition, calling it «sick stuff,» and even tried to withhold city funding from the museum until it shut down the show.

In 1970, the first exhibition of these paintings outfitted with an anarchistic sense of humor and the grotesque caused an art scandal in New York, as numerous critics took offense at his «betrayal» of abstract art.

And it's not that I take «offense» or such at the suggestion that I'm an armchair quarterback — I have enough to take offense at.

(No offense at all to Double Fine.)

Yeah, people might take a little offense at that.

Dog fighting, a serious problem in both urban and rural areas across the U.S. and throughout the world, is a felony offense at a federal level and in all 50 states.

If you take offense at these questions then you clearly are not suited to own a pedigree dog.

One of my dogs is terrified of thunderstorms but one of my others takes offense at the thunderstorm scaring his friend and barks back at it.

People tend to take personal offense at housetraining problems and can go absolutely ballistic.

Personally, I think that is hard to do with private equity, because 1) it is easy for some to become amazed at the success of some incredibly wealthy and clever businessmen, or 2) it is easy to take offense at these shadowy capitalists that have produced bankruptcies, fired many people, and have been very clever at using the tax code to pay minimal taxes.

Lest someone take offense at that, consider that big and small business alike advertise and market every second of every day to extract maximum profit from customers.

But honestly, in this case an Amazon killbot seems more reliable than a human who might have gotten up on the wrong side of the bed or taken offense at my wee - beady eyes.

And, given the predominantly leftist nature of publishers, I anticipate the proliferation of ebook «burning» to take hold as more and more snowflakes take offense at people outside of the progressive bubble having a forum for their ideas.

I get that, but anyone who is shallow enough to not take offense at depicting avid readers as socially challenged and monomaniacal nitwits will not appreciate the quality posting that is otherwise the norm here.

Not being a Mormon, I couldn't take offense at the authenticity of the faith of which Sandra Dallas wrote, as have many reviewers.

It should also be noted that if someone takes offense at a term used, they can shut the book.

Regardless, this kind of marketing is ineffective at best, annoying and a blockable offense at worst.

It's impossible for me to know who is going to take offense at constructive critique or be appreciative.

Former State Sen. Romero takes offense at the question of whether the trigger law is inherently divisive.

As far back as 1997, she openly admitted that she donated money to Republican politicians in full expectation of getting a return on her investment: «I have decided to stop taking offense at the suggestion that we are buying influence.

Native American high school students — attending a weeklong summer institute at the University of Wyoming that aims to give them a first taste of college — walked out of the Department of Theater and Dance's production of «The Fantasticks» on Thursday during intermission after taking offense at the play's content.

Taking a bit of offense at Petrilli's statement that reformers should use Lewis» challenge as an opportunity to win teachers over to systemic reform, Weingarten declares that Petrilli and others should «change course» and «try listening to what Karen and the Chicago educators are saying about how to improve schools».

Anyone who takes the slightest offense at the speech of any other student could suppress the speech by throwing an infantile temper tantrum or threatening to «f *** them up.»

See also in Miller's work an unusual sensitivity to physical deformity set up against a righteous offense at spiritual blight.

Martins takes offense at Calloway's statements, and though the Major wants the American to leave town, Holly sticks around to clear Lime's name.