Sentences with phrase «which affront»

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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.

It is only when descriptive science grows arrogant, and, not content with describing what lies within its province, makes naturalistic pronouncements which eliminate or belittle God and the human spirit, that Christian faith is 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.

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

And you surrender to the mystery, which is an affront to the ego.

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.

It may well be that those critics are right who suggest that the model who sat for this portrait of the Man of Sin was the mad Emperor Caligula, whose attempt to set up his image in the Temple had deeply affronted Jewish sentiment, recalling, as it did, the sacrilege of Antiochus Epiphanes, which Daniel had described as «the abomination of desolation.»

We enthusiastically affirm that the good of the African peoples is an indispensable condition for achieving the universal common good, but we acknowledge that the life conditions under which many Africans live remain intolerable, an affront to the dignity of all humankind.

They define with precision the particular tendencies in corporate life which are leading to disaster, because they are an affront to the Law of God — to the principles upon which the moral structure of the universe rests.

This recipe — which barbecue purists would call heresy and an affront to the Gods of BBQ — makes it possible to have flavorful pulled pork during a busy work week by using a slow cooker.

They would continue to find motivation in perceived affronts throughout the year, which helped keep them focused throughout the season.

London bus workers in seventeen bus companies will still be on strike tomorrow (Friday 22 June) despite a high court injunction which Britain's largest union, Unite branded an «affront to democracy.»

Western New York's two Republican members of Congress — Chris Collins and Tom Reed — offered staunch defenses of the controversial order, which New York Democrats lambasted as an affront to American values.

And more generally it removes legitimacy from a programe which stands as an affront to British values.

Hassan Bakiriddin of the Ernest Skinner Political Association said, «The «deal» which is being reported is an affront to the conscientious voters who made it clear that they want Democrats leading the New York State Senate.

A policy which disproportionately affects ethnic minorities, LGBT people, women, the disabled and those living in less affluent areas is not only an affront to basic principles of fairness and social justice but also exacerbates the inequality crisis which continues to worsen across the UK.

The Farmworkers Fair Labor Practices Act would end this injustice, which is an affront to New York values.

Sagay, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, stated that Buhari would not be cowed by the Senate's action, which he described as an affront to the Presidency.

He is one of the few politicians who was willing to take on Farage robustly, including in one Question Time exchange in which it was clear he was personally affronted by the Ukip leader's racially - tinged rhetoric.

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.

By inference, the loud - mouth NPP politician was simply saying that the majority of the nine - member panel sitting on the case are in support of the NPP's petition and thus no matter the evidence before them, they will vote in favour of the petitioners (the NPP), an action which will be tantamount to a miscarriage of justice and is also an affront to Ghana's security and stability.

And it is an affront to the rules based system on which we and our international partners depend.

«It is my cherished hope that parliament would not endorsed this total affront to our democracy and which would be a further spit in the face of the lady Chief and the Judiciary.»

«Yet New York's current voting system is an affront to the values of democracy on which this state was built.

The statement reads in part: «The allegations against Mr Dogara and other principal officials of the House of Representatives also suggest a subversion of the budget process, which in itself is a crime but also a fundamental breach of constitutional provisions and an affront to internationally recognized human rights.»

Police are still investigating the vandalism, which City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez denounced on Tuesday as an affront to the city.

Western New York's two Republican members of Congress Monday offered staunch defenses of President Donald J. Trump's controversial executive order on immigration, which New York Democrats lambasted as an affront to American values.

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.

With Brendan Gleeson as patriarch Colby and Michael Fassbender as the troubled heir to his travellers» caravan throne, the tone is country miles from David Jason's bucolic idyll, which the Cutlers affront at every turn.

The Ain't Rights (which also includes Alia Shawkat, and Callum Turner) are embittered and affronted to be playing before a rowdy room of bigots and so, in true punk fashion, opt to open their set with a spirited cover of the Dead Kennedys» classic «Nazi Punks Fuck Off», which predictably goes down like a lead balloon.

April 22, 2014 • A 37 - year - old British woman was detained in the island nation after a taxi driver noticed her Buddha tattoo, which is viewed as a religious affront to the country's dominant religion.

In a recent post, she explained why putting the word «public» in front of «charter school» — which are funded with tax dollars but sometimes considered private by courts — is «an affront» to people for whom public education is a mission.

In this post, Carol Burris, a former New York high school principal who is now executive director of the nonprofit Network for Public Education, explains why putting the word «public» in front of «charter school» — which are funded with tax dollars — is «an affront» to people for whom public education is a mission.

This generally pernicious and counterintuitive trend (facts are more easily accessed than ever) arrives just in time to offer comfort to those responsible for another irritating affront to the public's intelligence, one that's been creeping up in the world of cars for decades but which seems to have finally fully flowered — the willingness of carmakers to abandon the actual facts in favor of pseudofacts when naming their models.

In the artworks, which Materazzi typically creates without the assistance of Photoshop, she contorts and affronts her body to create moving tributes to space.

Leslie's artist / writer collaborative magazine The Hasty Papers, 1960, which included contributions from John Ashbery, Jean Genet, Jack Kerouac, Alice Neel, and others, was a creative affront to the art world's emphasis on discipline specificity.

There is nothing new, moreover, about art which either affronts or affirms the art of the past.

Because so much of the exhibition lies in the realm of sci - fi, it's bound to perplex at least a good chunk of visitors — and people are already comparing it to Elisabeth Sussman's fabled, notorious 1993 Whitney Biennial, which served up an bracing dose of identity politics to an unprepared audience and drew an affronted response from critics hoping for safer fare.

All of this abuse excludes the public attacks on climate scientists which have been made, and continue to be made, by some newspaper columnists and many bloggers who see action on climate change as an affront on freedom or a socialist plot.

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.

One judge writes extra-curially of «decisions which are an affront to any sense of fairness or reasonableness» (Nick Warren, «The adjudication gap» [2006] 13 JSSL 110, 114).

The University of Victoria Libraries supports the Canadian Library Association's position on the libel suit against Dale Askey and urges Edwin Mellen Press to drop this suit which UVic Libraries considers to be an affront to academic freedom.

Second, the chambers judge had found that if Unifor was ultimately successful in the arbitration, the impact on the privacy and dignity rights of the employees could not be remedied; in the absence of the continuance of the injunction the Unifor employees would suffer irreparable harm from the non-consensual taking of bodily fluids, which is a substantial affront to individuals» privacy, security and bodily integrity (citing Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, Local 707 v. Suncor Energy Inc, 2012 ABCA 373 (CanLII) at para 5)(Unifor, ABCA 2018 at para 12).

(b) which exposes, or tends to expose, to hatred, ridicules, belittles or otherwise affronts the dignity of any person, any class of persons or a group of persons; because of his or their race, creed, religion, colour, sex, sexual orientation, family status, marital status, disability, age, nationality, ancestry, place of origin or receipt of public assistance.

Sir Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, described the Bill, which adopts EU law into UK statute, as «an affront to parliamentary democracy and a naked power grab by government ministers».

As we see it, a «right to be forgotten» ODR process would have the individual who wants content to be unreferenced by Google log on to a platform and explain which link (s) lead to pages he deems to constitute an affront to his right to be forgotten, and why.

But, as I mentioned, Moto's touch is very light when it comes to skinning, which also means that you can rest assured you won't be affronted by too many options or the unnecessary bloatware offered by so many other Android manufacturers.