Sentence examples for violent affront from inspiring English sources
How a tiny, dancing child is being considered a violent affront to law enforcement; that's a question the boycotters have yet to confront.
"This was a personal affront.
Parents often blame "teenagers" and portray them as irrational and "moody" or argumentative, but this in itself reflects their (parents') inability to be rational or emotionally disengaged: they see the reasoned arguments of the teenager not as valid intellectual difference but as a violent and PERSONAL affront to their beliefs and values.
With the expansion of the state in many parts of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, violent and unruly behavior came to be seen as an affront to the prince or king.
Sharon's desecration march was an affront to the Palestinian population of Jerusalem, and, as expected, there was a violent protest and police standoff with casualties.
The results are gruesome mash-ups, violent and handsome, united by scathing political commentary on the war on terror, on affronts to privacy, on the democratic process, and on decency.
A Home Office strategy to tackle non-violent extremism has been discreetly shelved after Liberal Democrats in the coalition government blocked the proposals as too hardline and an affront to civil liberties.
Every violent crime taints the ideal of an orderly society, but when that crime is committed against the people who are peacefully selected to write the rules, then the affront is that much more profound.
Either way, the affront was noticed.
