Sentence examples for offended conservatives from inspiring English sources

He has offended conservatives by appearing to condone less-than-Islamic dress for women, and has presided over a breakdown in co-operation between the government and parliament.

Their extravagance of scale and expressivity offended conservative tastes.

Amānullāh changed his title from emir to pādshāh ("king") in 1923 and inaugurated a decade of reforms including implementing constitutional and administrative changes, allowing women to remove their veils, and establishing coeducational schools that offended conservative religious and tribal leaders.

He lost this by a whisker in the last election on 7 June, primarily because he had offended conservative and Islamic Kurdish voters, who previously supported his Justice and Development Party (AKP), by apparently favouring Islamic State (IS) over the Syrian Kurds in the war in Syria.

Some may offend conservatives.

Bloom knew it was a different kind of book; he once joked that having offended liberals with his first book, he would offend conservatives with this one.

But it's not just the excessive and unwise spending that offends conservative values.

Some of his views would offend conservative Muslims; other beliefs would repel American liberals.

Its legal bullying should offend conservative patriots as much as radical ecowarriors.

More autonomy would certainly offend conservative Thais who insist on the unitary nature of the country, with the king presiding.

It is a more public piece: sometimes mock-heroic, often bitonal and in general intent on offending conservative sensibilities.