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affront sentence examples

  • Not that i would put an affront upon the learning of any of those honorable employments, much less upon their persons.
  • But our sin is above all a personal affront to god.
  • In both cases, i was almost affronted to find that i remembered almost none of the detail of their complex plots.
  • You have an ego identification with your ideas and you take personal affront to those who differ with your thoughts on any subject.
  • He has allowed any member to raise a concern regarding the contents of any particular message without causing a direct affront to the individual.
  • This appears to me faint sketch of a system of salvation which does not affront our reason and humanity.
  • He has allowed any member to raise a concern regarding the contents of any particular message without causing a direct affront to the individual.
  • But for a very considerable minority, it was the greatest imaginable affront.
  • Not only have you caused me to waste valuable time by not filling it in, i also feel personally affronted.
  • But it is also true that even the mildest depiction constitutes an affront of sorts to most unionists.
  • Paul b posted: thu nov 17, 2005 9:30 am post subject: a gross affront... who the devil are you?
  • A simple analogy may help to explain why right-thinking capitalists are so affronted by this phenomenon.
  • Beyond that point it starts to become an affront to liberty.
  • The emperor threatened that if such affront were repeated, he would strike coins with words respecting mohammad grievous to his followers.
  • To our delight they obliged, popping their heads up to stare back at us, albeit looking slightly affronted.
  • They are, as mr justice sullivan said, an affront to justice.

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