Sentence examples for perceived offence from inspiring English sources

How can they achieve redress for a perceived offence, without resorting to censorship, or its kid brother, the boycott?

But then she compounded the perceived offence by complaining that her country had turned its back on her.

I would explain forgiveness as the renunciation of anger, resentment, and/or indignation as a result of a perceived offence.

Communicating effectively and appropriately across language, religious or cultural difference can be challenging with many possibilities for misunderstanding, perceived offence and disempowerment.

But, while both perceived offences were debatable, even luck is rolling with Ranieri.

Both programmes built large audiences during the George W Bush presidency by tapping into exasperation with the Iraq war and other perceived offences out of Washington DC.

He watched as Steve Harmison, smarting over past perceived offences by Chris Gayle, gave the Jamaican a decent 90mph work-over before handing the scalp to Matthew Hoggard.

This time Atwell sent off Nathan Elder after eight minutes for a perceived elbowing offence, a decision that left many observers bemused, Scott included.

Such shared resentment increases the sense of identity of the group which than perceives any offence perpetrated to the single as an offence to the group (Redmond, 2007).

He used the Book of Common Prayer, which celebrates its 350th anniversary next year, as an example of how ideas of duty and common interest could be expressed, quoting its Long Exhortation: "If ye shall perceive your offences to be such as are not only against God but also against your neighbours; then ye shall reconcile yourselves unto them; being ready to make restitution".

If you compare the way Muslims take offence at perceived insults that are not insults, but are just a critical way of looking at their religion, then I start to ask myself, why are Muslims so hypersensitive to criticism and why don't they do anything with it except to respond by denying it or playing the victim?