An example of this is the NSW supreme court case of McCormack v Langham, where the court stated that: What might pass as inoffensive language if exchanged between footballers in an all male environment in a dressing room after a match might well offend if repeated in mixed company in a church fete.
That may well offend some Esa member states but it's a fact of life that research ministers will have to grapple with when they gather again in 2014 to pronounce on the next phase of Ariane 6 development.
Don't just assume that anyone who looks upset a lot,wears black clothing and dark makeup or has really pale skin self harms, Making an assumption like that will just make you look ignorant and stupid, as well as offending the other person.
The main subtext of our message ought to be: you may well be offended, and you may well feel that even if one has a right to publish these cartoons -- it is wrong to exercise this right when dealing with sacred subjects.
As for the media, well, these offended folks need to spend their money somewhere.
In short, the British conclude, the French and Germans need Tony Blair.Italy, Spain and Poland have reasons to fear such a shift in British thinking that go well beyond offended dignity.
They rarely acknowledge that Justice Mordecai Bromberg found Bolt to have "derided and ridiculed" as well as "offended, humiliated and insulted" the complainants.
And then the mexicano will turn around totally confused as well, 'That offended you?' It's a wide topic that I'd like to write about and unpack in the future.
In "The Last of the Wine," the narrator muses on the abnormality of Xenophon's apparently exclusive heterosexuality: "Sometimes indeed I asked myself whether he lacked the capacity for loving men at all; but I liked him too well to offend him by such a question".
As a practicing composer, I was struck as well as offended by Richard Taruskin's characterization of "musicians who have not experienced... the necessity of greater consonance" as "useless" and "short of the needs of their time" ["North (Europe) by Northwest (America)," April 18].
