Sentence examples for have the effrontery from inspiring English sources

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As for Tibet, there are rumours that those ridiculous Buddhist monks may have the effrontery to smuggle themselves into Beijing, then set themselves on fire.

In Funny Games (1997), Michael Haneke makes sure that the bourgeois family who have the effrontery to like opera get their brutal comeuppance.

In a phone interview, Mr. Irwin said he was surprised that LinkedIn "would have the effrontery to ask for a professional service for free".

The Clinton administration has done more than enough to shield the steel industry from poor countries that have the effrontery to try to make a living; and yet it still reaps a political whirlwind.

Few persons have the effrontery or the foresight to enroll as, say, "Republicans" so that they can vote in a primary some seven months hence, when they full well intend to vote "Democratic" in only a few weeks.

She rarely looked like repeating this feat on a sweltering Court One yesterday, although she did have the effrontery, at 1-4 in the second set, to take a 0-40 leagainstnsthehe big Williams serve.

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It was all because he had the effrontery to embarrass the United States government.

Instead West Brom had the effrontery to equalise – through none other than Yacob.

But the scientific establishment sided with Dr. Waksman, scolding Dr. Schatz for having the effrontery to challenge his professor.

The boycott-divestment-sanctions actors are attempting to punish Israel for having the effrontery of having survived 67 years of continual attempts to annihilate it and its citizens.

The Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions actors are attempting to punish Israel for having the effrontery of having survived 67 years of continual attempts to annihilate it and its citizens.

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