Sentence examples for repugnant idea from inspiring English sources

The consequences of the repugnant idea, he wrote, do not justify its suppression.

Does the B.S.A. subscribe to the repugnant idea that gay adults are more likely to prey on children?

And how fast would that repugnant idea be shot down by the fans, who don't notice, don't mind, or look the other way now?

Mrs Merkel has still never really explained to the German people that they face a choice between a repugnant idea (bailing out their undeserving peers) and a ruinous reality (the end of the euro).

Any Israeli government peddling repugnant ideas of that sort can expect short shrift from the White House.

But he is also guilty of promoting one of the most repugnant ideas ever to occur to a human mind: "Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness" (Hebrews 9 22).

Many sacred texts contain problematic passages (i.e. passages which endorse morally repugnant ideas and practices).

Overcome by the vast suffering and the innumerable lives of both human beings and animals lost in the "struggle for existence," he violently rejected as repugnant the idea of providence, that is, the idea that there is a divine plan for the moral improvement of individuals and reward for those that are good.

This is what the court does when it is at its best — whether it be striking down the constitutionality of a popular school prayer or upholding an individual's right to express even the most repugnant of ideas.

Of course many people, though not many here, would find that idea repugnant.

And most Americans don't find this idea repugnant at all.