Sentence examples for severe offensive from inspiring English sources

Both bidding countries have faced criticism over their human rights records but China is in the midst of a severe offensive against dissent that has seen scores of people detained or interrogated in recent weeks.

With General Manager Brian Cashman watching from the seats behind the plate, the Yankees shook a severe offensive slump, even if they regained none of the ground they have lost recently in the American League East.

His 7-1 record, built almost entirely from low-scoring, last-minute wins against opponents with severe offensive deficiencies, has made him a living, breathing, Tebowing challenge to the laws of probability and the tenets of football strategy.

Anthony O'Mahony, whose 17-year-old daughter, Ciara, developed narcolepsy after being given the vaccine in 2009, said that the government's suggestion that illness was not "severe" was offensive to victims.

Trump has come under severe criticism for offensive comments made in the United States about Mexicans.

They led the American League in victories, with 96, yet they are prone to severe short-term offensive outages.

U.S. District Court Judge Janet C. Hall stated in her ruling, "There is no question that a rape... constitutes severe and objectively offensive sexual harassment".

A Sudanese government statement earlier described the offensive as "severe", saying its Heglig oil fields were deliberately targeted.

"The sexual harassment that Plaintiff suffered was so severe, pervasive and objectively offensive that it effectively barred her access to educational opportunities and benefits," the lawsuit said. .

The Davis standard defines peer-on-peer harassment as unwelcome discriminatory behavior, directed at a person because of his or her gender, that is "so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive, and that so undermines and detracts from the victims' educational experience, that the victim-students are effectively denied equal access to an institution's resources and opportunities".

The Supreme Court has defined student-on-student harassment as a pattern of behavior that discriminates on the basis of race or gender and that is so "severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive" as to have a "systemic effect" of denying a student the opportunity to receive an education.