Sentences with phrase «without affronting»
As Christian Myth, without affronting our common sense, it can signify and help us to grasp these important truths.
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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.
If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (of believers?)
Seems to take it as a personal affront every time City are without the ball
No 10 needs to recognise that life is difficult enough without complicating it further by taking affront whenever someone nudges the party line.»
«Knowing the role of the press, we felt that it was an affront and insult, not to you alone, but the generality of the society, because no society can exist without information.
«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.
«The ongoing detention without charge or trial of these men is an affront to basic principles of justice,» said Clive Stafford Smith, director of Reprieve.
Hempstead Town Councilwoman Erin King Sweeney, majority leader of the Republican - controlled town board, in a news release Thursday said Democratic Nassau County Executive Laura Curran's decision to impose fees «without any warning is outrageous and an affront to hard working taxpayers.»
Taking his problems to his dullard of a father, Ansel (Thomas Hayden Church), does little more than lead to yet another argument with his cold - hearted step - mother Charla (Gina Gershon), a tough cookie who can make meeting him at the door without her panties an affront rather than a come - on.
In the artworks, which Materazzi typically creates without the assistance of Photoshop, she contorts and affronts her body to create moving tributes to space.
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.
Many of us believe the proposed legislation is an affront to privacy, and gives law enforcement overly intrusive rights without court supervision that will in practice be no more than expensive, invasive, privacy offensive security theatre.