Sentence examples for without causing offence from inspiring English sources

They know how to choreograph events in ways that respect each other's integrity without causing offence.

In one case he's propositioned, but escapes with dignity and without causing offence.

There was even a touch of his grandfather: "What are you doing here, you slackers?" he called to a group of officer workers, but, lacking Prince Philip's strange ethereal charm, he did it without causing offence.

He was just in the process of finding exactly the right words to refuse the offer without causing offence when his wife leapt in – and said they would love them.

The "real W1A" phenomenon continues to flourish at the BBC, with the latest example the numerous internal meetings devoted to how potty-mouthed play The Motherfucker with the Hat could be talked about at 7.15pm on Radio 4's arts show Saturday Review without causing offence and, more important, without giving Beeb-bashing papers a field day.

The protocol for setting up the leaders' photos at the G20 without causing offence or diplomatic incident is fiendishly complex, but one of the principles is that longer-serving heads of state or leaders are placed nearer the middle of the photo.

He obviously relishes causing offence.

"We have no intention of causing offence.

Gray meanwhile apologised for causing offence, after consulting his lawyers.

In a vacuum, there's little possibility of causing offence.

He has never shied away from causing offence.