If swearing offends, then don't say you weren't warned.
The prospect of a Labour government being propped up by a block of nationalist MPs offends many English voters, and the Tory campaign machine is cranking out posters and videos that aim to upset them even more.
If he asks, he may be refused, and a refusal often offends.
It advises customers against asking for credit, because "a refusal often offends".In much of the world, and even among some Americans, indignation is growing at George Bush's slow but remorseless preparations to remove Saddam Hussein, Iraq's president, by military force (see article).
Most do not, and all too often the owners cross swords with the original landholder: a strange creature who counts on irrigation water, operates machinery at odd hours, and offends his neighbours with smelly cattle-holding pens.Wallace Stegner called those willing to hold on to a ranch in the face of adversity "stickers".
One senior figure in the cabinet office says that he has been told to avoid the word "outsourcing" because it offends the Liberal Democrats.
Thus, a student-led prayer offends against the constitution just as surely as one delivered by a school official.The case has stirred political passions on both sides.
In the end, of course, the bad publicity was good for business 1.8m people watched, almost double what an opera usually attracts.Controversy over entertainment that offends the faithful is hotting up.
Here is how Chuck Collins at the American Prospect explains the situation:The idea that people's futures might be economically determined deeply offends U.S. sensibilities.
In conservatives' eyes, Hamburg's government is laying siege to a noble and ambitious idea of education that is still possible within the state school system.Almost any education reform offends somebody.
This trade offends economic theorists, who assume the juicy yields Iceland offers will be offset by an eventual plunge in the value of its currency.
