Sentence examples for considerable affront from inspiring English sources

Although the plan had some inflationary features, it foreshadowed a one-fifth reduction in government spending, including wages and pensions a considerable affront to Labor's traditional attitudes.

This would be a considerable affront to his party leader, Nick Clegg (pictured), for whom the urgent need for austerity was the principal justification for committing his party to government.

It's an affront to democracy.

Diocletian, however, would not tolerate this affront to his rule.

It's an affront to his own considerable good works and to his own meager beginnings.

These are considerable advantages, yet the pitch is, for the same reasons, taken as an affront to the entrenched jock ethic of blood, sweat, and tears.

It's a personal affront.

The affront of it!

It was an affront to time.

Companycommand was an affront to protocol.

Either way, the affront was noticed.