Sentence examples for political affront from inspiring English sources

Will talking to other parents about guns — especially in a state like mine or Carissa's — come off as some kind of offensive political affront?

Unfortunately, with the war against Iraq in full swing, and black the prescribed color for clothing, pink constituted a political affront.

Indian officials and elites protested the arrest as a political affront as well as a cultural misunderstanding.

An antitrust action would be risky, given Europe's dependence on Gazprom for about a quarter of all natural gas consumed in the European Union, and given the Russian company's history of cutting off customers for perceived political affronts.

Yet it retains a powerful sense of political unease and affront.

I do plan to explore these complexities at some later date, but for now I'll stick to the one point on which there was near unanimous agreement: that "background briefings" of government and political figures are an affront to journalistic integrity and an insult to the citizenry.

Capping off two weeks of debate on whether adolescent bullying and a former pastor are fair game is the latest affront to political discourse: abbreviated cussing.

Nevertheless, these political moves are an affront to the victims and to the courage that Kenya showed when it joined the court in 2005.

And for most of the last 35 years, he has been a lonely Quixote tilting at the very idea of regulating political donations as an affront to free speech.

Just as there is a geopolitical marketplace, there is a marketplace of models of success for the second world to emulate, not least the Chinese model of economic growth without political liberalization (itself an affront to Western modernization theory).

The case has also deepened a profound split among liberals, dividing those who view government regulation of political speech as an affront to the First Amendment from those who believe that unlimited corporate campaign spending is a threat to democracy.