Sentence examples for avoiding offense from inspiring English sources

In recent years, there have been numerous conflicts centered on speech or publications that violate campus codes aimed at avoiding offense to ethnic, religious or racial minorities.

For Cicero the "new man" who had made his way to the top by his own oratorical and political skill, obliging everyone by unstinting service, representing Pompey's interests in Rome while avoiding offense to Pompey's enemies this was the climax of his life.

Pessimists see a noble project derailed in part by the arrogance of Western powers — led by the United States — who use war-crimes prosecutions to selectively punish weak African thugs, while avoiding offense to authoritarian allies and evading accountability for their own transgressions.

Conforming to a particular sociopolitical ideology of point of view, especially to a liberal point of view concerned with promoting tolerance and avoiding offense in matters of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation.

The ethical obligation to save a life is greater than that to avoid offense.

The film's few street scenes were shot early in the morning, to avoid offense.

Conversation, she reports, is full of politeness, self-abnegation, hypocrisy and lying, all to avoid offense and loss of face.

But to avoid offense to both sides, any investigation should focus only on individuals who are fully protected by the presumption of innocence.

Every gesture has his audience in mind, and one notes in his inventive strokes an eagerness to please and to avoid offense.

Manila decided not to send representatives to Oslo in December for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony of the Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, a move Filipino commentators said was meant to avoid offense to Beijing.

Even so, to avoid offense, they sometimes misleadingly imply that today's discoveries exist in easy harmony with preëxisting religious doctrines, or remain silent rather than pointing out contradictions between science and religious doctrine.