Sentence examples for be an affront from inspiring English sources

This should be an affront to Turks and Armenians alike.

"That would be an affront to American craft brewers.

To shut this research down at the moment would be an affront to those patients".

Values were a dime a dozen, and they could be an affront to our virtues.

It would be an affront to them; it's an affront to us".

"It would be an affront to silently tolerate this behavior," Charlotte Knobloch, the council's president, said in a statement.

The Turkish government has long maintained that an Armenian genocide did not occur, and considers suggestions to the contrary to be an affront to Turkish identity.

These theatrics vary, and, while dangerous and dramatic, they are considered by some matadors and purists to be an affront to the dignity of their adversary.

It was considered by many academicians to be an affront to the art of history painting, but ultimately it was a popular success and won Reynolds' approval.

Denying Catalans the right to self-determination would be an affront to the democratic ideals that Spain, and Europe, claim to embrace.

Some (albeit fewer than in the past) wonder whether, ' [research questions] should ever be asked by the living of the dying... To research at all could be... an affront to the dignity of [terminally ill] people and an expression of profound disrespect for the emotional and physical state of such patients' [ 6].