Sentence examples for affronts on from inspiring English sources

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.

If I am known in Rome to be an architect, if I am seen drawing or with a pencil in my hand, I cannot enter into genteel company who will not admit an artist or, if they do admit him, will very probably rub affronts on him in order to prevent his appearing at their card-playing, balls and concerts.

In town squares and deep in the woods, in secret and on public display, white men, women, and children of all social classes participated in the kidnapping, mutilation, and killing of African Americans said to have committed serious crimes or minor affronts on white honor.

The results are gruesome mash-ups, violent and handsome, united by scathing political commentary on the war on terror, on affronts to privacy, on the democratic process, and on decency.

Unlike guilt, which is about what one did, shame is an affront on the self, or what one is.

The Investigatory Powers Bill is a dangerous affront on Parliament.

Mr. Stearns said, "you don't take it as a personal affront on your integrity?" "No," said Dr. Chu.

Some have long maintained that this practice is in general an affront on the dignity of the human person.

Why perpetrate this affront on those few who carry the burden of efforts to keep harm from our shores?

But while most coverage of Goldberg's long article in The Atlantic revolves around an unnamed official calling Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu "chickenshit" – which the Obama administration spent two days disavowing – lost in the pearl-clutching is the insightful look at how Netanyahu's policies on Iran are a direct affront on American interests.

Santorum proclaimed: "If you believe this is a tyrannical act of oligarchical judges, an affront on first-amendment rights and destructive of the basic building blocks of society and you say it's time to move on, why are you running for president?" He made clear he would not move on, and said: "This decision will not stand".