Sentence examples for outrage upon from inspiring English sources

Delightedly piling outrage upon outrage, he pronounced Confucius "a mediocre talent," and called for China to be thoroughly Westernized.

One example: On Oct. 14, 1893, the weekly Sporting Life expressed dismay that a female cyclist had committed "an outrage upon decency and good morals".

On the other hand, when you state that large families are "an outrage upon the woman," you are getting down to brass tacks.

According to Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the greatest work of anti-slavery propaganda of the 19th century: "The worst abuse of the system of slavery is its outrage upon the family".

For loads of reasons – partly that I was worried that its dissection of women was affecting me, and partly because, much as I enjoyed riding out my own outrage upon reading the stories, such as the Samantha Brick piece, I felt like a hypocrite.

Moreover, as former justice department attorneys David Rivkin and Lee Casey point out, holding detainees in penal institutions may constitute an "outrage upon personal dignity" in violation of the Geneva convention common article 3. And putting them on trial may be impossible because the detention and evidence collection processes so far have not measured up to civilian court standards.

"Outrages upon personal dignity is something like Abu Ghraib or parading our soldiers in Vietnam before the television cameras," he said.

The Geneva Conventions prohibit "violence to life and person, in particular... cruel treatment and torture" and "outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment".

But the White House argued that the treaty's prohibition against "outrages upon personal dignity" was too sweeping, placing too many restrictions on the C.I.A.'s methods of interrogation.

Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions bars, among other things, "outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment".

The report adds that CIA operatives may have subjected at least 27 detainees in Afghanistan, Poland, Romania and Lithuania to "torture, cruel treatment, outrages upon personal dignity and/or rape" between December 2002 and March 2008.