Sentence examples for repugnant of from inspiring English sources

THERE was a time, during the heyday of the Washington Consensus, in which support for capital controls was among the most repugnant of economic heresies.

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.

Eventually, his broadcasters grew tired of him, the Church warned him away from politics and he died in the obscurity he so richly deserved.Today his views seem repugnant, of course, and the notion that 30m Americans would tune in to hear him spew them is unthinkable.

The veal industry, which the ethicist Peter Singer calls "the most morally repugnant" of all "factory farming," involves tethering calves in pens not wider than two feet so they are unable to stretch their legs from birth until slaughter, and deliberately feeding them a diet lacking in iron, so that their meat reaches a desired tenderness and complexion.

However, Holland was repugnant of the song's title.

I'm no defender of the repugnant policies of the current government of Iran.

Supermarkets should move away from offers such as "buy one get one free" to help end the "morally repugnant" waste of millions of tonnes of food, a House of Lords committee has said.

In "attempting to reverse the biggest democratic mandate in British history", said the Sun, "unelected peers" were guilty of "a repugnant display of elitist arrogance".

Even though I've written much, this only begins to scratch the surface of the repugnant nature of the Prosperity Gospel.

"We live in a repugnant age of slogans," one of the characters in a novella entitled "The Day the President Was Killed" laments.

As Petra (Rebecca Wisocky) wakes up, dons a luxuriant robe and receives a visitor, her well-appointed and comfortably married friend Sidonie (Rosalyn Coleman), she regales her with a repugnant account of the habits of her former husband.