Sentence examples for may be repugnant from inspiring English sources

These games, and animal cruelty videos, may be repugnant to many, but America's legal tradition keeps them from being illegal.

Wayne Pacelle President and Chief Executive Humane Society of the United States Washington, Aug. 2, 2010 To the Editor: Your editorial about animal cruelty videos says they "may be repugnant to many".

Certainly the Khalīfah's government was autocratic, but, while autocracy may be repugnant to European democrats, it not only was understandable to the Sudanese but appealed to their deepest feelings and attitudes formed by tribe, religion, and past experience with the centralized authoritarianism of the Ottomans.

The ancient gesture of digitus impudicus "impudent finger" to the Romans -- may be "repugnant, distasteful, and crass" and beyond free speech protection, but directed by one motorist against another does not by itself constitute disorderly conduct, a Texas appeals court has ruled.

Stealing a baseball catcher's signs or a football team's plays by peering through a telephoto lens may be morally repugnant to some, but what Sweetan allegedly did was considered by federal authorities to be a crime.

While Trump may be a repugnant candidate to many, he still lives within a larger political structure that has, thus far, proved resistant to the metaphors, equivocations, and juxtapositions of strongmen, confusing and, for some listeners, compelling as they can be.

The idea that a machine can approach humans may be deeply repugnant to us all.

While the fundamental metaphysical truth that only unextended beings can serve as the simple beings of the created world simple beings out of which complex beings are made may be repugnant to sense and imagination, reason (as captured by her PC in this case) demands we believe it (IP §135).

For Russell, mindful both of the figures he was allying himself with and of the innovation in thought that they were introducing, acknowledging that Jones had anticipated some of his ideas may have been repugnant.

It should be repugnant to every conservative and every Republican".

"His thoughts may be disturbing and repugnant, but he has got a right to have them and write them down for his own use," said Raymond Vasvari, legal director for the Ohio chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.