Pembroke, whose honour had been affronted, appealed for justice both to Gaveston's brother-in-law Gloucester and to the University of Oxford, but to no avail.
But Islamic fundamentalists have always been affronted by the enclaves, and for terrorists, the compounds serve as a handy symbol of the modern Western culture they despise.
Mr. Catterson had affronted the unions for taking too lightly incidents in which officers were injured, and for a 1999 case in which brutality charges were brought against a police officer who was later acquitted at trial.
At least one writer was so affronted by the idea of blurbs for cash that he complained to the Authors Guild.
His anger was energising, for it was ego affronted by those errors in nature that had not made him at birth an unmistakable beauty, prince, genius and pasha.
Technical people must feel a little bit affronted that this person is speaking for them, and yet is clearly not one of them.
They thought that to that they felt affronted and ask for help was to show vulnerability and weakness.
For one thing, I was affronted that someone would seriously offer me a job over the phone with food in his mouth.
But it's to bring [the audience] there and have them pay for the experience of being challenged and affronted, to remove some of the safety net.
She will talk effectively about dwindling roles for women in their 50s, but is affronted by suggestions – even indirect ones – that she downplay her age.
Every person, every generation, knows this, but it may be the case that the baby boomers are most keenly affronted by the passage of time, are most ripe for the comeuppance of aging and mortality.
