"And I think it is incumbent on the government to explain how something that was supposed to be an affront to human rights when John Howard did it is now necessary to protect our borders".
It remains a perceived sin, a perfectly legal method of dismissal considered an affront to the supposed gentleman's way of playing the game, but really it might be the best example of what a thoroughly overwrought concept the "spirit of cricket" is.
In essence, the idea of AI algorithms taking our jobs is seen as something unnatural, an affront against how society is supposed to function.
Percival has breathing problems, because he's an affront to God's plan and isn't supposed to exist, so we have to be very careful when we're roughhousing with him, or he'll suffocate and we'll have to introduce our kids to the concept of death.
The sheer fact that this exists – and comes in a big package – is an affront to the very standards that GMAX is supposed to be upholding.
It's an affront to our democracy and not the way the Senate was supposed to work.
Veronica Yates, director of Child Rights International Network, an organisation monitoring child marriage across the world said: "The forced marriage of girls - and to a lesser extent boys - all too often by the very people who are supposed to protect them is not only unacceptable in international law, it is an affront to humanity".
Dozing in public increasingly became an affront to refined sensibilities, a reminder of the body's basic functions that were supposed to be tidily managed behind closed doors.
One explanation for these warnings is that these writers genuinely see the ruling as an affront, both to their own conservative ideals and to broader principles of law that are supposed to transcend typical ideological divisions.
The Tories, of course, regard the NHS's existence as some sort of affront to their basic values: it is an institution that puts need before profit, an approach that neoliberalism was supposed to have definitively disposed of.
