Sentence examples for to avoid offense from inspiring English sources

The ethical obligation to save a life is greater than that to avoid offense.

The film's few street scenes were shot early in the morning, to avoid offense.

Conversation, she reports, is full of politeness, self-abnegation, hypocrisy and lying, all to avoid offense and loss of face.

But to avoid offense to both sides, any investigation should focus only on individuals who are fully protected by the presumption of innocence.

Every gesture has his audience in mind, and one notes in his inventive strokes an eagerness to please and to avoid offense.

Manila decided not to send representatives to Oslo in December for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony of the Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, a move Filipino commentators said was meant to avoid offense to Beijing.

In recent years, there have been numerous conflicts centered on speech or publications that violate campus codes aimed at avoiding offense to ethnic, religious or racial minorities.

Though it will still feature the eye-gouging of Gloucester, the poisoning of Regan and other assorted tragic fates that befall its characters, the PBS broadcast of "King Lear" will avoid offense to delicate sensibilities by hiding the nudity in a scene with Ian McKellen, who plays the title role, The Associated Press reported.

Today's military command structure must avoid offense and litigation by even the appearance of advocating one faith or any faith at all.

They would tell stories of his ability to avoid giving offense and forgive transgressors.

But as with all marketing exercises, experts say, rule No.1 is to avoid causing offense.