Sentence examples for a major affront from inspiring English sources
In 2002 and 2003, Wyden attacked the program as a major affront to privacy rights and urged that it be shut down.
Then there was the man who had "worn out his welcome in town" and gone on a drunken bender, robbing a council depot and driving his car through property gates – a major affront in cattle country.
"We see this mission of the Pan-African Parliament Women's Caucus as a major opportunity to catalyze and synergize efforts in Ethiopia, and across Africa, towards an intensified and coordinated affront on FGM".
This affront to the interior design profession, as some see it, is one sign, among many, of a major shift in the way Americans decorate.
Yet it is Russia's duty as a major power not to deceive Bashar Al-Assad, and not to deceive the Syrian people and use it as an instrument of revenge to compensate for a national affront or defeat.
It was meant to be a harmless jab, in the same paragraph as a similar affront against business majors, all within the context of an entire article basically insulting scientists.
It is a personal disaster; an affront to the nose.
Entrepreneurship is a new beginning, an affront against established businesses.
It's not an embarrassment, or an affront.
Major evangelical groups that openly opposed Mr. Obama and his health care plan in the past see this as a new affront and a new opportunity for attack.
