Sentence examples for grave affront from inspiring English sources
The NATO aerial assault on Serbia was a grave affront to the Russians.
A crowd surrounded the stage, shouting insults and waving their shoes in the air, a grave affront in the Arab world.
A rare formal apology was made.In this section Their number is up If you pay more than peanuts Protest vote Dispense with the pieties Thinking the worst Isolation ward Putting the raj in Rajapaksa Friends like these In the strongman's shadow ReprintsEven when no one is killed, the trauma of doors being kicked down and women exposed to strangers is seen as a grave affront.
Maurice Cranston held that human rights are matters of "paramount importance" and their violation "a grave affront to justice" (Cranston 1967).
Maybe that's why nobody has dared point out that the whole setup is a grave affront to "network neutrality"–Amazon's bits get preferential carriage on Sprint's bandwidth, until Google or Ebay strike their own deals.
"The spectacle of a regime flogging a poet to punish a handshake is a grave affront.
Rousseau died in 1910, of gangrene, from an untreated leg wound, and was buried in a pauper's grave, an affront corrected by Picasso and Robert Delaunay, who financed a decent tomb with an epitaph by Apollinaire that reads, in part: Let our luggage pass duty free through the gates of heaven We will bring you brushes paints and canvas That you may spend your sacred leisure in the light of truth.
The A-word -- amnesty -- is all but universally accepted as one of the graver moral affronts of our day.
The lack of unity stems from an old problem: Muslim leaders pay lip service to the "ummah," or global community of Muslims, but are more often driven by narrow national interests — even when faced with grave actions seen as an affront to their own people.
A nation that has known little repose for more than a year was digging graves and dealing with another bewildering affront to the stability it craves.
We strongly condemn the continued and repeated use of chemical weapons by the regime in Syria, including the latest attack on Douma, which is a grave breach of international law and an affront to human decency.
