Sentence examples for to avoid causing offence from inspiring English sources

The Malaysian Sun says that censors outlawed screenings to avoid causing offence to the country's majority Muslim population.

He's a mischief maker, a Loki-like bringer of chaos, unwilling to compromise to avoid causing offence.

Obama seems well aware of such sentiment, calibrating his speech to avoid causing offence and trying instead to inspire.

His comments come after a mother was given a large napkin to cover her baby while feeding her baby in Claridge's to avoid causing "offence" to other guests.

In 2010, Tesco asked shoppers not to wear nightwear when visiting its supermarkets, "to avoid causing offence or embarrassment to others".

So what can you do to avoid causing offence this summer if you would like to try the wonderful feeling of swimming without clothes on, or if you are simply taken by the urge to swim on a hot day but have forgotten your costume?

Following the guidelines, it adds, could "minimize unnecessary negative impact of disease names on trade, travel, tourism or animal welfare, and avoid causing offence to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups".

"While some readers may have found the cartoon offensive, the council does not consider that the publication failed to take reasonable steps to avoid causing substantial offence, distress or prejudice," the adjudication published on Monday said.

According to the account that is now widely accepted in the scholarly literature, Hume removed almost all the material in the Treatise that was concerned with religion because he was anxious to avoid causing any "offence" among the orthodox.

But all EU countries have devised a formula to avoid causing too much offence to the Chinese, known as a "human rights dialogue".

Be prompt to avoid causing unnecessary delays.