Sentence examples for further affront from inspiring English sources
It would be a further affront to the American people and the basic canons of law.
(In a further affront to mainland populists, Jersey's elected police spend much time harassing motorists: speed checks are a big part of their work).True, Jersey is different.
In a further affront to the Islamists, the Egyptian news media have marginalized their message in the two days since Mr. Morsi was deposed.
But compromise with the old narratives was more overt in Serbia's Srebrenica resolution: by taking pains to avoid the word genocide, the resolution was widely interpreted in Bosnia as a further affront to the victims and a meaningless gesture.
In what may have seemed like a further affront to The Financial Times, he went on to be named the British business journalist of the year for his work at the newspaper, and he audaciously promoted BreakingViews.com at the ceremony.
Except for Ruth Kligman's memoir, which was a direct affront, no further Pollock biographies were published until after Krasner's death, in 1984.
Martin Schulz, the European parliament president, called the bans a "high affront" that would further set back relations with Moscow.
Further consequences include: (b) a serious affront to democracy.
Though western sanctions don't prohibit foreign trade and investment or affect international aid – it's said that Zimbabwe's 2009 cholera epidemic topped 100,000 cases, registering some 4,300 deaths – the Mugabe administration effectively characterised the sanctions as an affront to the common Zimbabwean, further crippling the nation's already hobbled economy.
What is Homer Simpson but a casual class affront: one need go no further than Wikipedia to recognize that he "embodies several American working-class stereotypes: he is crude, overweight, incompetent, clumsy, thoughtless and a borderline alcoholic".
Although Japan has controlled the islands – called Diaoyu in Chinese and Senkaku in Japanese – for decades, Beijing saw the purchase of some of the islands as an affront to its claim, and as further proof of Tokyo's refusal to negotiate.
