Sentence examples for offensive because of the from inspiring English sources

Volunteer groups who are helping the refugees in Mindanao called on the government Tuesday to stop the offensive because of the worsening humanitarian crisis in many Muslim areas.

To many Jews it is offensive because of the implication that a Jew who has not accepted Jesus is not "complete".

In addition, thanks to modern therapy with a number of effective drugs, the disease is now entirely curable, and the term leper, connoting somebody who has had and always will have the disease, thus no longer has meaning and in fact is considered to be offensive because of the social stigma long associated with the disease.

The company even held a mock press conference with the impersonator, which is slightly less offensive because of the lack of angel wings and halo.

A tenuous possibility is that the military has not gone on the offensive because of the ceasefire order, although a recent statement from the defence headquarters said that a "highly coordinated air bombardment is already yielding required results in the mission to repel the unwarranted attacks on citizens" in the north-east.

To perform proxy baptism to a Hindu is "deeply offensive" because of the belief in rebirth, said Suhag Shukla, co-founder of the Hindu American Foundation and now its managing director and legal counsel.

According to First Lt. Max Ferguson, of Company I, Third Squadron, Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment, residents reported that fighters with Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia were tipped off that the offensive was imminent "because of the increase in helicopter traffic overhead".

Some of these incidents must have been highly offensive because 11% of the group questioned reported that they or someone they knew had been terminated as a result of the misbehavior.

Minnesota also had to make adjustments on its offensive line because of the death of tackle Korey Stringer during training camp.

Marib is one of the few places known to be strongholds of al-Qaida, and the Yemeni military has not tried to carry out a large offensive there because of the strong presence of anti-government tribes.

But both he and Rice blamed their poor play on an inability to find their offensive rhythm because of the odd rotation that resulted from the overabundance of swingmen.