Sentence examples for an obvious offence from inspiring English sources

With the lack of an obvious offence, it's often a case of being crushed by a thousand tiny micro-aggressions; they can be hard to prove, both to an employer and to yourself, contributing to a feeling of slow-burning madness: am I imagining this?

Once the resultant melee had subsided, the Italians could not understand – and neither can I – why Sanchez had been allowed to remain on the field despite a passable imitation of Rocky Marciano, when one of their number had been banished for a less serious and far less obvious offence.

"The Italians could not understand – and neither can I – why Sánchez had been allowed to remain on the field despite a passable imitation of Rocky Marciano, when one of their number had been banished for a less serious and far less obvious offence," wrote Jimmy Hill in the Observer.

It was far from an obvious handling offence, yet the player was slow to celebrate the goal as if he knew he might be pulled up.

While Wilson met the joke without obvious offence, many viewers criticised the incident as jarring.

The latest figures also appear to underline a developing shift in crime away from more visible and publicly obvious offences, such as robbery, to those that are more difficult to identify.

Challenged about whether he truly believed it was not an obvious red-card offence, he replied: "I don't think so.

In its press statement on the case, the ECJ said the UK had argued that "CS's serious criminal offence represented an obvious threat to the preservation of that member state's social cohesion and of the values of its society".

Because the UN depends on governments that contribute peacekeepers to prosecute offences by their troops, there is an obvious temptation to ship suspects home and forget about the allegations against them.

It's not a red card for denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity because defenders are allowed to make clean tackles – his only offence here is coming on to the field without permission.

GR The rule of the fifth of seven sending-off offences in Fifa's Laws of the Game reads: "denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity to an opponent moving towards the player's goal".