Sentence examples for direct affront from inspiring English sources

The Japanese government took this as a direct affront, and the Japanese public was outraged.

The adoption policy is a direct affront to the will of state legislatures; it is a direct attack on federalism.

Arpaio's twenty-four-year career in Maricopa County was as a direct affront to the immigrant community.

Yet gatekeeping necessarily implies including some companies and excluding others, a direct affront to the goal of inclusivity and unmediated access to the crowd.

Except for Ruth Kligman's memoir, which was a direct affront, no further Pollock biographies were published until after Krasner's death, in 1984.

The Madras high court's judgment marks a shift in this trend, and is a direct affront to the BJP's incursions into literature and art.

"The resolution is a direct insult and an affront to the powers given to Congress on matters of war under the Constitution," said Senator Robert C. Byrd, Democrat of West Virginia.

This suggests that a fundamental change in Europe's direction rests on some explosion from below: the anger of unemployed youth boiling over in the streets, occupations by desperate workers of workplaces and public spaces that are more than symbolic, direct challenges to the affront of banks to democratic governance.

Others believed that the United States should focus on engaging Russia, which viewed an expansion of the alliance as an affront and a direct threat.

"She said she would consider the fund-raiser a personal affront," a person with direct knowledge of the conversation said.

While any call for direct talks contributes to the peace process, personal affronts are unhelpful.