Sentences with phrase «such affront»

Why would President Obama deliver such an affront to the teachers unions?

It added, «The leadership of Arewa Youth Assembly has observed with keen interest the high level of lawlessness exhibited by Nnamdi Kanu since he was granted bail in June this year and the conspiracy of silence displayed by the Federal Government and its security agencies in the face of such affront by the IPOB leader.

Uk» omu added that such affront should not be allowed to endure if the North - Central State must witness the highly - needed political and economic developments.

The youth leaders said, «The Leadership of Arewa Youth Assembly has observed with keen interest the high level of lawlessness exhibited by Nnamdi Kanu since he was granted bail in June this year and the conspiracy of silence displayed by the federal government and its security agencies in the face of such affront by the IPOB leader.

Such an affront to sovereignty, officials in Quito went on, is reminiscent of the colonial era — a charge that supporters of Assange (camped outside the embassy) were quick to pounce upon, along with a set of countries in Latin America (most notably Argentina and Venezuela) whose relations with London are already pretty sour.

Such an affront, he argues, came in the past as it comes now from that brash and unbaptized libeler of human reason the perennial harlequin, the votary of the ridiculous, the extravagant, the «fanciful.»

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?

Perhaps it's a measure of the esteem in which his canonical performances are held that his recent work elicits such an affronted sense of indignation from even the most casual moviegoer.

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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.

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.

A call to abolish food banks completely was rejected by the report though: «We know that such a cry is based on the affront people feel for their fellow citizens who have to use food banks as a crucial safety net.

is the brunt of the issues I have with the Christian traditionalists who do dare to make such Word out to be but a fettered disposition of parabolic venues meant to shape mankind's assimilative naturalisms ever so gently thru timely passing onwards subjective emotionalisms of tenaciously tenured rationalisms without much bitterly connotation - affronted derailments as seems the issues within our onwards marching histories trails of religious Lent.

Much as we stress democracy, democracy is affronted on every hand by factors such as these.

He is an affront to all christians and certainly should not associate himself as such.

It could be argued that such a synthetic religion would provide a suitable acknowledgment of the Supreme Wisdom behind all observable phenomena, and while properly respecting the visions and ideals of religious founders, would not affront modern intelligence by retaining what is plainly irrational.

While it would hardly benefit from a trade war with the US, China may now view such castigation as unacceptable given its increasing world status and take this slight as a diplomatic affront and would probably feel forced to retaliate.

I hope that it is not the case, as such a determination at this time would be disconcerting to say the least, and an affront to our State Constitution and a deeply vested public.

«The fact that such enormous crimes could went on for such a long time without any form of redress is an affront to universal human rights of Nigerians to their natural wealth and resources.

Allowing a pariah and disgraced leader such as Mugabe asylum in our country would be an affront to the values and principles upon which our constitutional democracy is based,» Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota, said.

If you think supplying the NYS government with services and getting reimbursed is such a horrible affront to the voters senses, I'd say you are supporting the right guy.

These offenses can be small, such as Mosab's introduction, where he's sitting in darkness before lights slowly reveal his face, or more of an affront, like the inexplicable decision to cut to faux - surveillance footage of Mosab while he's talking, a visual marker as likely to be found in a murder - mystery television news special.

Performance Ann Dowd, Compliance The real - life story that inspired Compliance is so certifiably insane, such an apparent affront to common sense, that dramatizing it presented a Herculean challenge.

Christina Applegate, whose work on «Married With Children» gave her valuable experience in playing characters whose dignity, such as it might be, is regularly affronted, shows similar game good spirits in her activities here.

Most characters in the film do not provide such a generous epithet for him, though, with Michael Shannon's stern security guard Strickland simply referring to the classified experiment as an «affront.»

I'm skeptical that anyone equipped with less than unwavering admiration for a cast member (none of whom deserve such passion here) will find this anything but an affront.

For traditionalists, Parent Trigger laws are even more an affront because it violates their belief that only supposed «experts» such as themselves can actually what kids can learn and who should teach them.

Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.

Will Entrekin gets a hand on the baton, too, in There's No Such Thing As The Publishing Debate, writing «Many people seem to think that people's preferences are an affront to their own.»

This means that there are some things that are just difficult to teach them, such as staying off the counters when there are interesting smells, that closed doors are not intended as an affront to them, and not to lie on your book while you are trying to read it.

It is rather against him who did not expect it that people have protested...» These words ring hollow in the face of such outright affronts to public sensibility as Déjeuner sur l'herbe [4] or Olympia.

To the archaeological mind, such things as later houses built in to medieval ruins are an affront.

To begin with, techniques such as these represented a radical affront to the unity of painting as understood by the Modernist tradition.

It is an affront to our First Amendment rights of free speech and association for Attorney General Walker to bring such intimidating demands against a nonprofit group,» said CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman.

Such a brazen attempt to discredit and silence the EPA, the citizens of Pavillion and documentary filmmaking will ultimately fail and it is an affront to the health and integrity of Americans.

Persuasion to the Real Climate point of view is possible only if those who write there, and here, remember that people are suspicious when reasonable questions about disputed science are met by an extraordinary exhibition of affronted pique and wounded amour - propre such as the one above.

Finally, Justice Rothstein points to the inconsistency of the majority's saying both that judges must have discretion to waive any hearing fees and that the process of applying for such an exemption may be a burden and an affront to the dignity of the litigants.