Sentence examples for affront that from inspiring English sources

Martin Schulz, the European parliament president, called the bans a "high affront" that would further set back relations with Moscow.

They say such spy flights are an affront that must be stopped, though they are aware that the United States fully intends to continue them.

Clapper called Trump's comparison of U.S. intelligence agencies to the Nazis "a terrible, insulting affront" that was "completely inappropriate and over-the-top".

But her complaint that the prayer was a personal affront that sent her the message "you don't belong here" merely reflects the wrongheaded psychological turn in current Establishment Clause thinking and misses the real constitutional point.

When he was informed last April that this would be his last festival, he described it as "an absolute personal and professional affront that is both harmful to my reputation and damaging to the festival's international reputation".

While a government using chemical weapons against its own people is an affront that may demand international action, it seems obvious that a far greater horror from the US point of view is those weapons being used against its own people or allies.

That prompted Williams to unfollow Stephens on Twitter and delete her as a contact on BlackBerry Messenger, personal affronts that Stephens publicized in ESPN the Magazine in May.

Many of the show's rawer moments are underpinned by real-life affronts that Stephen sustained; the second episode's jailhouse beating stemmed from a day he spent in jail after being arrested for possessing a gram of weed.

Representative John D. Dingell, the Michigan Democrat and the dean of the House, said Democrats remained angry over how they had been treated since Republicans took the House in 1994 -- "a wide array of affronts that go back at least six years, a wide array of concerns about basic unfairness, exclusion from the legislative process".

"Citizen" begins by recounting, in the second person, a string of racist incidents experienced by Rankine and friends of hers, the kind of insidious did-that-really-just-happen affronts that startle in the moment and later expand, poisonously, in the mind.

Over the next half century the affronts to that and other ideals hardly ceased.