Sentence examples for affront of the from inspiring English sources

The affront of the old woman refusing to unlock the church is returned to in a subsequent poem.

"The fact that the lawyers for the long-gone show 'Three's Company' have nothing better to do, aside from billing legal hours like truffle pigs, than attempt to bully an Off Broadway playwright of modest means is an affront of the most base kind," Mr. Baitz said.

It was going to take the entire evening to construct this newest affront of the ruling Chinese regime and thousands of people were going to spend the night watching.

Since war is the ultimate failure of diplomacy, the final, last ditch effort to save country, life, or resources or a direct response to an invasion, attack or affront of the direst of nature, since waging ongoing wars has actually destroyed nations, including many in the very area now in turmoil, the need for war should be painfully obvious to all or most.

Rousseff's statements were bold and clear: "In the absence of the right to privacy, there can be no true freedom of expression and opinion, and therefore no effective democracy" and "Tampering in such a manner in the affairs of other countries is a breach of international law and is an affront of the principles that must guide the relations among them, especially among friendly nations.

He was doing a return at the same time he fought with his mind, with the sin and affront of even the passing thought.

Like many working Americans, I spent an unfortunate chunk of Wednesday afternoon trying to unpack the various devastations and affronts of the new G.O.P. tax bill.

In other words, it claims that the Palestinian people are victims of Israeli racism and demands that all U.N. states provide protection from the affronts of the racist Jewish state.

Part of the military's anger focused, the senior military official said, on the affront of not being informed by the civilian government about the stipulations that affected the army.

"One cannot concieve of other elements put in place to create a space that's more of an affront to the idea of free expression than the designated demonstration zone," he said in a ruling on Thursday.

After seeing the designated area, Judge Douglas Woodlock stated, "One cannot conceive of other elements put in place to make a space more of an affront to the idea of free expression than the designated demonstration zone".