Sentence examples for take offending from inspiring English sources

For all the high-flown oratory, Mrs. Merkel called in her speech for automatic sanctions against countries that violate budgetary rules, and even for the ability to take offending countries before the European Court of Justice.

He also advised hiring a local surveyor to take measurements, offending several of the geologists.

If you unintentionally insult their favorite party, they might get offended and take you on as an enemy.

Flatulence is second nature to groups of childish men! "It appears my tongue in cheek comments about my time at Gloucester have been taken seriously and have offended in the process".

The Playmate's responses ran the gamut from apologetic ("I understand and I appreciate that! I can take being offended but it got taken a little too far. No harm/no foul") to anger ("Where would it get me? Lynched? Like u pieces of s on here?

Copyright holders already have the power to take down offending material.

Amazon does not seem to have commented on this latest blow to the credibility of its reviews, but it did take the offending pieces down.

In 2003, Cisco Systems sued Huawei for copying its intellectual property, which eventually persuaded the Chinese firm to take the offending products off the market.

I commiserated, and tried to cheer her up by pointing out that this being the last show of the day, she could soon head home and take the offending knit off.

The basic thought is simple: take the offending sentences, such as (1), to be neither true nor false.

The DMCA attempted to get around this by setting up a notice process whereby content owners can tell a Web site to take down offending material.