Sentences with phrase «umbrage when»

The relationship between Mr. de Blasio and Mr. Sharpton was fodder for his woes with police unions last year: they took umbrage when Mr. Sharpton was seated next to the mayor and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton at a City Hall round table, and dismissed Mr. Sharpton as divisive.

Farage finally took umbrage when one pub - goer called him «a hybrid Conservative BNP in a bloody suit».

He took umbrage when the church dismissed him from his post and took the trustees to a tribunal, claiming unfair dismissal.

I just take umbrage when its usually pointed out that its only male and generally white to boot.

Not exact matches

DECEMBER 1, 2004: Tyee columnist Murray Dobbin elicits Tyee's first angry phone call from a high - ranking politician when Stockwell Day calls the office and takes umbrage with Dobbin's piece titled «The Man Who Walks with Dinosaurs.»

And even when the king of Israel sends him to Elisha, why should he not take umbrage and return to Syria to provoke the diplomatic incident?

And I bet someone took umbrage with Mrs. Wakefield when they discovered she added chocolate chunks to a Butter Do - Drops Cookie recipe.

When Jonah's principal (Gameela Wright) tells her that Jonah is «quirky» — an ambiguous but not meaningless word that reeks of flippancy — Marlo takes umbrage at the woman's refusal to address her son's mental issues head - on.

In most instances, the humor is used to relieve the impact of the drama, as when Alice takes umbrage with Kate's attitude and language in the third ep, Aftermath [in which the family attempts to clean up after the damage T and Buck caused in the first two eps.

With that in mind, festival director Roger Durling took playful umbrage on stage with her remarks at the Golden Globe ceremony a week ago when she claimed she never wins anything.

I do take umbrage with certain decisions (longtime readers can probably guess the part when I mentally threw a shoe at the screen), but the off - the - cuff screenplay and witty interplay did its work to win me back.»

Personally, I found melee combat was too clumsy when my AI buddies take umbrage at the fact that they're standing where I'm hacking - and - slashing.

Even so I've had seller reps take umbrage to and even argue when told that in my opinion the price is too high or the house needs too much work — proof the only reason for the request is as per the above.