He, and others who supported his decision, made truly insulting assertions that medical research created a "market" for fetal tissue and thus would encourage women to 1) get pregnant in order to 2) have an abortion so that they could 3) sell the fetal tissue to make money.
Regarding Donald Trump's insulting, diminishing assertion about Hillary Clinton that she is only succeeding by playing "the woman's card" and that if she "were a man, I don't think she'd get 5percentt of the vote": If Trump were a woman, he'd be lucky to do that well.
But there was little evidence of any reference to God or Islam around the protests on Wednesday, and some demonstrators called the assertion insulting.
It's an outlandish assertion — insulting, really — and a measure of the antipathy of Trump's critics that some, including members of Congress, have seriously raised the subject.
"Our family was deeply affected by the war," she said, "and we do not make frivolous claims, and that assertion is frankly insulting".
But if the Catholic experience in the United States holds any lesson it is that becoming American also means asserting one's constitutional rights, fully and forcefully, even if that assertion is occasionally taken to be insulting".
He labeled the Mayor's assertions that the investigation had been politically motivated "unfounded and insulting".
Mrs. Clinton's assertion in the debate that the Islamic State was "showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists" amounted to something of a turning point.
Christianity was as much a cultural tradition as it was a faith tradition, an assertion that the leadership of the medieval church would not have regarded as diminishing or insulting.
"The News from Ireland" (1986), his story of the potato famine, is glutted with lies and deceptions, from a road to nowhere – an insulting labour project ill-suited to weak, hungry men – to the governess Miss Heddoe's self-deceiving assertion that "I do not know these things", denying unpalatable truths she had earlier begun to apprehend.
