Sentence examples similar to offending against protocol from inspiring English sources

After he won his first race in 1990, he offended against Senate protocol by talking about Minnesota's poor at every opportunity, abusing arcane voting procedures and leaving his battered campaign bus in other senators' parking spots.

It's someone who offended against 10-year-olds".

Such forgiveness seems to offend against justice.

Now Mr Powell is about to offend against all the tenets of his own doctrine.

But it is not in film makers' interest to offend against tradition.

It offends against the sacred sense of belonging.

Whoever offends against this unity need expect nothing else than annihilation as an enemy of the nation.

The killers are soldiers in a war against freedom of thought and speech, against tolerance, pluralism, and the right to offend — against everything decent in a democratic society.

It would offend against the principle of free expression, he said: a principle revered in America, but not in Iran.

I hardly need to spell out the many ways in which my habits offend against modern norms.

This seems obvious, but increasingly such a position offends against the spirit of the times.