Sentence examples for obvious offence from inspiring English sources
While Wilson met the joke without obvious offence, many viewers criticised the incident as jarring.
"The Italians could not understand – and neither can I – why Sánchez had been allowed to remain on the field despite a passable imitation of Rocky Marciano, when one of their number had been banished for a less serious and far less obvious offence," wrote Jimmy Hill in the Observer.
Once the resultant melee had subsided, the Italians could not understand – and neither can I – why Sanchez had been allowed to remain on the field despite a passable imitation of Rocky Marciano, when one of their number had been banished for a less serious and far less obvious offence.
With the lack of an obvious offence, it's often a case of being crushed by a thousand tiny micro-aggressions; they can be hard to prove, both to an employer and to yourself, contributing to a feeling of slow-burning madness: am I imagining this?
The latest figures also appear to underline a developing shift in crime away from more visible and publicly obvious offences, such as robbery, to those that are more difficult to identify.
It was far from an obvious handling offence, yet the player was slow to celebrate the goal as if he knew he might be pulled up.
Challenged about whether he truly believed it was not an obvious red-card offence, he replied: "I don't think so.
SINCE when did a statement of the bleeding obvious become a sacking offence?
Lawyer Dan Tench from Olswang described the outcome "inevitable, given that it was obvious that no criminal offence was committed".
In its press statement on the case, the ECJ said the UK had argued that "CS's serious criminal offence represented an obvious threat to the preservation of that member state's social cohesion and of the values of its society".
The observation is made repeatedly that if one were to replace the word "women" in these discussions with "black" or even "French", the breathtaking offence of these views would become obvious.
