Sentence examples for offending advertisers from inspiring English sources

And any outfit that depends on advertising is liable to worry more about offending advertisers than about pleasing viewers.

They were worried about offending advertisers?

Both shows exude a Comedy Central feel and have rejected television, fearful of being censored to avoid offending advertisers.

The archbishop, Juliusz Paetz, was an associate of Pope John Paul II, and one Gazeta reporter said the editors were afraid of offending advertisers.

Afraid to offend advertisers.

Some readers, in online comments and on Twitter, raised the question of whether The Times had been avoiding this story because it didn't want to offend advertisers.

He said the network's decision to winnow the long list of possible repeats to ones that would not offend advertisers was "totally common and done during the summer at every network".

While gangs of punks and skinheads fight pitched battles in the streets, the newspapers, afraid of offending their advertisers -- party apparatchiks turned free-market entrepreneurs -- soft-pedal the bad news.

In the last 30 years, she said, her profession has become "much more reluctant to say anything that will offend food advertisers".

Yet the show avoids controversial subjects that might offend potential advertisers.

In the ad a manager urges his staff to peddle a lackluster stock, bellowing: "Let's put some lipstick on this pig!" CBS, concerned that the ad would offend other advertisers in the financial services arena and not just Merrill Lynch –won't air it.