Sentence examples for long offended from inspiring English sources

No less a figure than Frederick Douglass said the practice had long offended his "logical faculty" as a man "opposed to every species of arbitrary power".

Long offended by this failure, in 1779 he increased his army with French and European soldiers of fortune and joined in a confederacy with the nizam and the Marathas against the British, who had further provoked him by capturing the French settlement of Mahé, which was within Hyder's territories.

Homeless people often self-medicate with drugs and alcohol, exhibit antisocial or aggressive behaviour and have long offending histories.

Whilst an individual's self-harm is certainly a consideration in admission to psychiatric services, it would not be a defining concern in offering admission to a forensic bed in the same way as, for example, a long offending history or the need for restrictions on the patient's access to a telephone.

KHALID TURAANI, a spokesman for one of the groups planning the boycott, American Muslims for Jerusalem, said that Muslims and Arabs had long been offended by Mr. Lauder's pro-Israeli views, but had not decided to call for a boycott until Mr. Lauder appeared at the "One Jerusalem" rally of religious and nationalist Israelis in January.

25) — The prolific San Francisco quartet took a relatively long break following "Offend Maggie," in 2008; that album found them evolving further toward traditional pop-rock songs after years of making more experimental noise music.

The insertion was a mistake then; the trouble is that knocking the words out long afterward, offending the religious majority, would be a slippery-slope mistake now.

These actions are legitimate as the free expression of those who happen to be offended as long as they are done as a spontaneous response to the person's faults and not as a form of punishment.

Take a second, but not a really long time, or she'll be offended you're taking so long to come up with reasons you like her.

Last spring, an internal American government assessment observed that Iraq appeared to be calculating that it could keep Mr. Daqduq detained long enough to appease the Americans but not so long as to offend Iran and Hezbollah.

This offended the long-term Roma residents as much as the non-Roma ones.