Sentence examples for act abhorrent from inspiring English sources

President Obama has often called the marriage act "abhorrent," but his Justice Department defended it for more than a year before declaring it unconstitutional.

Albie fishing is a high-speed shell game, in which the ability to slap a fly down quickly among feeding fish -- an act abhorrent to trout anglers -- represents the epitome of skill.

The more severe authorities had thought her rape, whatever her personal virtue, a taint from which she could never be cleansed, and judged her suicide, an act abhorrent to God, as compounding rather than expiating the foulness.

I cycled between rage at the unthinkable acts of abhorrent former reporters, editors and private investigators to despair for the families that were their targets; a little bit more rage; and eventually to self-pity.

"Such hateful and cowardly acts are abhorrent to all Canadians who stand united in condemning xenophobia and hatred," says NCCM Executive Director Ihsaan Gardee.

"As well as his act, which was abhorrent, the community's apathy angered me".

Would the act be less abhorrent if it advanced the Palestinian cause?

"What more abhorrent act is there, short of murder?" Newhan said he was otherwise comfortable with how the association wielded its power as gatekeeper of baseball history.

Calderon tweeted that the attack was "an abhorrent act of terror and barbarism" that requires "all of us to persevere in the fight against these unscrupulous criminal bands".

"This crime is an appalling one, shooting journalists going about their work is an abhorrent act of cowardice, but killing, even killing a killer, is never right".

Foreign Office officials are in close contact with the Thai authorities and have offered UK assistance in the investigation of this abhorrent act.