Sentence examples for personal offences from inspiring English sources

After an initial decline in the early 1990s, the proportion of crimes attributed to the most victimised increased to just below a quarter for vehicle crimes, nearly a half for property crimes and over a third for personal offences.

There was personal offence.

The candidate said she took "great personal offence to the comment, as does my wife".

As the wife of a trainee GP, I take personal offence at Ms Hewitt's comments.

A sense of massive anger and personal offence is now the appropriate response to any news event or cultural manifestation.

The result is that they sometimes take personal offence at political setbacks, which may be counterproductive; neither Obama seems to have much appetite for domestic politics.

"I particularly regret any personal offence or upset I have caused to Rachel and hope she will come on Newsnight again soon".

I don't take personal offence to the book, as my original review would have you believe and quite frankly I never did, but it really isn't my cup of tea.

Older said there had been "thoughtful and brilliant points made on all sides and some ridiculous, nonsensical trolling" in response to his suggestion, adding that he "wasn't surprised that some folks took personal offence to the petition.

If nothing else, the stress and personal offence this kind of nonsense builds up, can remind the author that he or she really does still care about what ends up on the page.

She has been no stranger to very insulting, and very public, comments since then, but she has remained stoic in attributing such attitudes to conservative groups struggling to come to terms with 20 years of immigration and an increasingly multicultural society, rather than taking personal offence.