Sentence examples for would seem outrageous from inspiring English sources

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This brand of civic quarantine would seem outrageous in New York today.

Zaza's parents are wholly within their rights to intervene in ways that would seem outrageous to most Westerners.

In part this might be explained by the fact that much of the work on capabilities deals with global poverty, where issues of individual responsibility seem to be less relevant since it would seem outrageous to suggest that the world's most destitute people are personally responsible for the situation they are in.

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Stated baldly, the goal of formalizing common sense would probably seem outrageous to most philosophers, who are trained to think of common sense as rather elusive.

Five years ago, an unemployment rate of seven and a half per cent would have seemed outrageous, but it's possible that five years from now it will seem not so bad.

The idea of a Southern state delivering its electoral votes to "the party of Lincoln" would have seemed outrageous before the 1960s — before, that is, the national Democratic Party made a commitment to the enforcement of civil rights for blacks.

He bought them — and paid prices that in more conservative times would have seemed outrageous.

It did not seem outrageous to him that he'd allowed me to think she lived in another country for a quarter-century.

It might seem outrageous to suggest that a Nato member like Turkey would in any way support an organisation that murders western civilians in cold blood.

It didn't seem outrageous or sultry; it smacked of desperation".

"The C.I.A.'s redactions seem outrageous to me," Mr. McFeely said.

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