Sentence examples for widespread offense from inspiring English sources

The remarks caused widespread offense.

One early poster met with public outcry and was withdrawn after regulators deemed it "likely to cause serious or widespread offense".

A well-known Saudi academic and women's-rights advocate, who asked not to be identified, because she does not wish to be associated publicly with the current controversy, told me in a Skype interview that an experienced activist like Shammary was unlikely to have been surprised that criticism — even implied criticism — of men with beards would cause widespread offense.

Bill Keller, the executive editor of The New York Times, said in an e-mail message that the newspaper had "no policy against publishing things that might offend someone -- lots of people are offended by lots of things -- but we try to refrain from giving widespread offense unless there is some offsetting journalistic purpose".

Despite concluding that it was "sexually suggestive," the ASA decided to rule against banning the ad, saying in an assessment that "they were not overtly sexual and unlikely to cause serious or widespread offense".

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Probe a little further and despite the widespread feeling of offense, many people here also say they agree with Mr. Bush, up to a point.

In short, because the Tampa 2 is so widespread, simplistic and passive, offenses have easily designed plays that are tailored to exploit it.

Those were among the nonviolent infractions by prisoners in New York State that led to extended stays in solitary confinement, a widespread punishment for prison offenses, according to a lawsuit the New York Civil Liberties Union filed on Thursday.

Thaksin is adored by much of the country's rural poor and despised by the educated elite and middle-class who accuse him of widespread corruption and other offenses.

Since whites are, for the time being, the majority of the polity, our laws reflect their preferences; American criminal law is dominated by mandatory minimum sentences, life sentences for minor offenses, and the widespread abandonment of parole.