There was an outcry from traditionalists, offended partly by the fact he was only intending to fund teams in road racing – the most prestigious and popular side of the sport – as part of preparation for track racing.
Dr. Kochi, an openly undiplomatic official who won admiration for reorganizing the world fight against tuberculosis but was ousted from that job partly because he offended donors like the Rockefeller Foundation, called the Gates Foundation's decision-making "a closed internal process, and as far as can be seen, accountable to none other than itself".
This is partly to avoid offending the Germans by appearing to threaten to leave, which they regard as unfriendly.
Despite jitters, few firms have left Bahrain, a regional financial centre, partly to avoid offending Saudi Arabia, the islands' godfather.Moderate protesters pin their hopes for reform on Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa, the 44-year-old crown prince.
They are spending tens of millions of dollars to defeat Obama, partly because he offends their conservative sensibilities, but also because he is less likely to be a completely devoted servant of their profit margins.
The truth is, I am more respectful of the beliefs of followers of the large organised religions, partly because it is not in my nature to offend and partly because it is still a taboo in our society not to.
Germans have always disliked any kind of ostentation, and you could even say anti-Semitism came partly from a dislike of a Jewish bourgeois lifestyle, which offended both socialists and National Socialists".
Labour has implied it would ditch the current set-up and move to a smaller number of regional forces, although it has not gone into much detail.The Conservatives are unlikely to entertain such a reform, partly because it might offend their rural supporters but also because it would entail abolishing their biggest criminal-justice innovation in government: police and crime commissioners (PCCs).
