Sentence examples for be appalling if from inspiring English sources

It would be appalling if CUNY denied such an honor on the basis of a political litmus test; it would be appalling if the honor were denied because the proposed honoree held outré or extreme views.

They're too young to settle down so it would be appalling if they became a proper, happy couple.

It will be appalling if ministerial incompetence has left the government open to legal challenge for which taxpayers will pick up the bill.

The SNP and pro-EU Tory MPs Nicky Morgan and Anna Soubry were also considering tabling questions, while former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, now the party's Brexit spokesman, said it would be appalling if detailed terms of Brexit, including the UK's future relations with the single market, were not voted on by MPs.

Pat McFadden, a former business minister, said it would be appalling if it emerged it was possible to tackle the Libor scandal but not possible to do the same for other markets, including food, due to a lack of international powers.

His son James Murdoch, News Corp's deputy chief operating officer, told the inquiry it would be appalling if such actions took place.

"It's appalling if you consider how they were taken in the first place; how Hungary treated the Jews".

The opinion is appalling if you care about the equality and autonomy of American women, but it's not stupid.

The fact that Hamas has not conducted any investigation into its unconscionable attacks on southern Israel — rockets and mortars still fall — is appalling if unsurprising.

But it would have been appalling if the memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki hadn't created a taboo around the use of nuclear weapons that endures unviolated to the present day.

It is appalling, if unsurprising, to read the neoconservative cheerleader Oliver Kamm arguing in these pages that the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki 62 years ago saved lives and ended suffering.