Sentence examples for serious affront from inspiring English sources

Tax evasion is a serious affront to the rule of law.

We consider this inconvenience to you — a loyal account holder (and friend) — to be a very serious affront to something.

But some activists view the merger as a serious affront to grass-roots environmentalism — like David waltzing with Goliath.

Justice Stephen Breyer's warning that wholesale strip searches were "a serious affront to human dignity and to individual privacy" fell on deaf ears.

Secondly, the operation was ridiculed from the start as a farce rather than as a serious affront to United States national security.

Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote on behalf of the four dissenters, pointing out that strip searches are "a serious affront to human dignity and to individual privacy" and should therefore only be ordered with good reason.

Outside the karate class, flexibility, if not a Zen-like self-restraint in the face of serious affronts from the Kremlin, have defined Mr. Prokhorov's low-profile role in Russian politics this summer.

These remain serious affronts to millions of Egyptians.

This was considered a serious enough affront to warrant a condemnation by Sweden's trade minister.

How serious an affront to the integrity of each fellow's noble soul had the attack on him been, and what was the appropriate response?

North Korean people "really do believe they are under siege from all directions," and "are deadly, deadly serious about affronts to the supreme leader," he argued.