Sentence examples similar to offensive tea from inspiring English sources
The tea offensive turned critics into collaborators.
Shocked by the British defeat at Saratoga (concluded Oct. 17, 1777) and fearful of French recognition of American independence, Prime Minister Lord North induced Parliament to repeal (February 1778) such offensive measures as the Tea Act and the Massachusetts Government Act and to establish a commission to seek a negotiated settlement with the Americans.
Whatever ineffectual and indeed offensive, anti-intellectual nuttiness the tea-party movement embraced, it also effectively focused the political attention of dissatisfied conservatives on the spectre of government action, creating a space where all sorts of different actors could intervene and grow.
[That's] just as offensive as Sophie the Belle & Sebastian tea-and-scones dame who says I scare her".
For the first time, "journalists being inaccurate isn't particularly upsetting or offensive to me," she said (and was that tea she was sipping as she spoke?).
Gen. Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Quds Force, an elite unit in Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, supposedly drinking tea outside Tikrit at the start of a recent offensive.
But in 1999, just a year after TEA-21 went into effect, the American Road and Transportation Builders Association ARTBAA) began preparing for their next offensive.
Or offensive: Jasmin's father and brother appear as grasping, amoral snobs, while her mother's defining moment is to brew tea noisily during Jay and Matt's soulful rendition of "The Little Drummer Boy".
"It will be aesthetically offensive, physically offensive".
