Sentence examples for capable of causing offence from inspiring English sources

The BBC Trust's editorial standards committee said on Thursday that the proximity of Fry's limerick to the news broadcast was "unfortunate and regrettable" and "capable of causing offence".

"We accepted that these remarks made in Celebrity Big Brother were capable of causing offence, but they were likely to be within the audience's expectations of this programme".

Ofcom ruled that although that the image was capable of causing offence – which on balance was not justified by the context – as the BBC had apologised and acknowledged that the picture was unsuitable for broadcast, it considered the matter resolved.

Chief Superintendent Mark Roberts said: "This article, as acknowledged by CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] was certainly capable of causing offence and Manchester United also considered it of concern as they initially alerted GMP to its existence and prevented supporters entering the stadium with the Ku Klux Klan image on display".

We avoid the subject more than we do death, wary of causing offence.

"We have no intention of causing offence.

He had no fear of causing offence and found others taking offence hilarious.

In a vacuum, there's little possibility of causing offence.

Tonight it feels diffident and constrained, as though he's nervous of causing offence.

It's the uncertainty, the awkwardness, the possibility of causing offence, that gnaws at us.

He is not even that keen to talk about it, for fear of causing offence.