Sentence examples for considered repugnant from inspiring English sources

The practice of autopsy, which made modern medicine possible, was for centuries widely considered repugnant.

Even though homosexuality is outlawed in Pakistan and is considered repugnant to the tenets of Islam, it is privately tolerated in some sections of society, and the law is rarely brought to bear against people for homosexual behavior.

As such, one way or the other, if the alleged treatment meted out on Afghan war detainees and terror suspects by the U.S. is true, it is clearly considered repugnant internationally.

"They spared them the manual tasks that Beydane society considers repugnant or demeaning: fetching water, preparing food, herding cattle".

Being a homosexual in that era was considered morally repugnant, punishable, and curable".

Yet the scaffold nearly was banished because it was considered too repugnant for a gallery showing.

Cook Wilson, therefore, considered it "repugnant to create a technical term out of all relation to ordinary language" (SI, 713), and he particularly disliked the tendency to unearth some concept in Greek philosophy in order to introduce a new technical term.

Drugs like Pregnyl are considered neither repugnant nor desperate but technological feats, so why the double standard shaming those who extract methamphetamine from their urine?

As the Harvard economist Alvin Roth has noted, many people consider it "repugnant," mainly for two reasons.

In "For Israelis Wounded in Bomb Attacks, Recovery Is a Battle" (news article, July 8), you refer to "suicide bombings that Israelis consider morally repugnant".

Israelis say more of their own victims are noncombatants, women and children, who are often killed or wounded in suicide bombings that Israelis consider morally repugnant.