The term is used to describe a whole range of actions, not all considered political by the person involved: simple efforts to speak openly about periods, radical affronts to negative attitudes and campaigns for more environmentally friendly sanitary products.
On the contrary, after responding only meekly to the numerous perceived affronts on Japan's territorial sovereignty in recent months, the last thing government wants is anything that could be seen as another diplomatic climb-down.
Israeli voters have punished past prime ministers for lesser affronts to their great protector.
The country's various widget-makers, moreover, show no sign of losing their innovative edge.In this section Lean and unseen Little love lost Sold to the man at the back Shop affronts Beyond Propriety Heavyweight metal Flight of the bumblebee A prince of malls ReprintsEven in the automotive industry, GM and Delphi are arguably the exceptions.
"Congress is composed of representatives not of the people but of vested interests," says Mr Cardoso, the former president.These affronts have caused a backlash.
Over the next half century the affronts to that and other ideals hardly ceased.
At an official banquet this week for conference participants at Diaoyutai, the state guest house where generations of important visitors have been feted and hoodwinked, there are no such affronts to foreign tastes.
Her film affronts us in ways that Antonin Artaud, the exponent of the theatre of cruelty, would have approved of.There is no doubt that "Romance" is confused as a film, and its ending is frankly melodramatic and silly.
That, in turn, distorts the banks' decisions: since such funding is cheap it is hardly surprising that profit-maximising bank bosses gorge on it.Rigging and milkingAll this turns banks from champions of capitalism into affronts to it, reliant on rigged markets and taxpayer subsidies.
The others cost between $2m and $3m.In this section Lean and unseen Little love lost Sold to the man at the back Shop affronts Beyond Propriety Heavyweight metal Flight of the bumblebee A prince of malls Reprints Related items Aerospace: Stuck on the runwayJun 15th 2006So who will buy these new craft?
Mr Obama's recent embrace of gay marriage, says Mr Wade, was reason enough in itself for many in West Virginia to sour on him.Neil Gillies, chairman of the Democratic Party in Hardy County, agrees that bureaucratic interference and cultural affronts have sapped the president's popularity.
