Sentence examples for an offense against from inspiring English sources

"Really, it's an offense against Cuba and against Venezuela".

To be expected to repeat these sentiments, Robinson decided, was an offense against conscience.

Or is it an offense against the person she has spent adulthood laboring to be?

To wish to act is an offense against God, who desires to do everything in man.

And so, astonishingly, is the Manhattan — "an offense against piety" because it has vermouth.

"The offense against an individual woman becomes an offense against the family," Arbia said, "which becomes an offense against the country, and so, by deduction, against humanity".

A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offense against property but an offense against life.

It was, to Mr. bin Laden and others, an offense against God.

The Carabinieri, the Italian paramilitary police, charged Rios with committing an offense against public officials.

The conviction that rebuilding would be an offense against the the dead won the day.

** To be expected to repeat these sentiments, Robinson decided, was an offense against conscience.