Outrage Sentence Examples

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  • Only when alone together were they free from such outrage and pain.

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  • A period of calm followed the outrage.

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  • This was the last outrage.

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  • Of the moderation of the latter, and their abstinence from all outrage or plunder, he speaks highly.

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  • This horrible outrage naturally created indignation in France, and it unfortunately became plain that the conspiracy had been hatched in England, and that the bombs had been manufactured in Birmingham.

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  • The execution of the patriarch Gregorios, as technically responsible for the revolt, was an outrage to all Christendom; and it led at once to a breach of diplomatic relations with Russia.

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  • The United States government characterized the affair as an outrage, demanding an indemnity as satisfaction.

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  • But the insurrection was precipitated by an unpremeditated outrage.

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  • Further it is suggested that Peisistratus was unwilling to have children by one on whom lay the curse of the Cylonian outrage.

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  • Onias was accused by his enemies of having given the information which led to this outrage and when, relying upon the support of the provincial governor, they proceeded to attempt assassination, he fled to Antioch and appealed to the king.

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  • The people, headed by John Lizka (1376-1424), threw the burgomaster and several town-councillors, who were the instigators of this outrage, from the windows and they were immediately killed by the crowd.

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  • This theory, however, is nothing less than an outrage on history.

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  • The Romans, recognizing later the pope's innocence of the outrage, made their submission to him in January 1406.

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  • A prison erected here at this period gave place later to the House of Detention, notorious as the scene of a Fenian outrage in 1867, when it was sought to release certain prisoners by blowing up part of the building.

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  • In 1756 this struggle culminated in the great outrage known as the Black Hole of Calcutta, followed by Clive's battle of Plassey and capture of Calcutta, which avenged it.

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  • Between 1811 and 1814 hands of so-called Luddites, starving operatives out of work, scoured the country, smashing machinerythe immediate cause of their misfortunesand committing every sort of outrage.

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  • From Meerut the mutineers, after some acts of outrage and murder, moved on Delhi, the capital of the old Mogul empire, which became the headquarters of the mutiny.

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  • This gross outrage led to fresh measures of coercion.

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  • He held the light away from her, but the burst of outrage had startled him.

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  • John Paul's response was to reward an American cardinal who had assiduously covered up the outrage with a plush posting in Rome.

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  • Even a terrorist outrage could cause thousands or even millions of deaths.

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  • The outrage over the lyrics seemed to help make Eminen a household name.

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  • But Missouri did not move her slaves; while her vicinity encouraged border partisans to seek such establishment even without residence - by intimidation, election frauds and outrage.

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  • On Ascension Day 1528 he committed an outrage on the sacrament carried in procession; he was placed in the pillory, had his tongue bored, and was banished from Delft for three years.

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  • In the same year the two groups, Andaman and Nicobar, the occupation of the latter also having been forced on the British government (in 1869) by the continuance of outrage upon vessels, were united under a chief commissioner residing at Port Blair.

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  • The effect on the passionate sultan of this " unparalleled outrage on a friendly power in time of peace " is easy to imagine.

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  • In 1864 the ambitious dictator of Paraguay, Francisco Solano Lopez, without previous declaration of war, captured a Brazilian vessel in the Paraguay, and rapidly followed up this outrage by an armed invasion of the provinces of Matto Grosso and Rio Grande in Brazil, and that of Corrientes in the Argentine Republic. A triple alliance of the invaded states with Uruguay ensued, and the tide of war was soon turned from being an offensive one on the part of Paraguay to a defensive struggle within that republic against the superior number of the allies.

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  • This outrage, which was traced to the Communists, provided fresh proof that the Democratic leader Draskovic, as Minister of the Interior, was justified in his charges of widespread terrorist conspiracy and even in the much debated Decrees (Obznane) by which he sought to combat them.

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  • Nobody would take his part, and at last, nearly three months after the outrage, he challenged Rohan, who accepted the challenge, but on the morning appointed for the duel Voltaire was arrested and sent for the second time to the Bastille.

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  • The outrage was discovered and remedied before the service began; and, although the Arrabbiati half filled the church and even sought to attempt his life, Savonarola kept his composure and delivered an impressive sermon.

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  • To them persecution was an outrage upon Jesus's teachings.

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  • This outrage was instantly avenged, for in October Earl (then Sir Frederick) Roberts with a large force defeated the Afghans on the 6th and took possession of Kabul on the 12th.

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  • His reign was characterized by bloodshed and violence; the outrage of his son Sextus upon Lucretia precipitated a revolt, which led to the expulsion of the entire family.

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  • The executions and floggings were carried out the next day at the scene of the outrage and in the presence of some five hundred natives.

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  • He had amassed some wealth, which on his return to Rome he so employed among the poor as to secure for himself great popularity; and, when Vigilius was summoned to Byzantium in 544, Pelagius, now archdeacon, was left behind as his vicar, and by his tact in dealing with Totila, the Gothic invader, saved the citizens from murder and outrage.

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  • Fatteh Khan, however, excited the king's jealously by his powerful position, and provoked the malignity of the king's son, Kamran, by a gross outrage on the Saddozai family.

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  • This outrage was not avenged until the time of Cromwell (1654), and in the meantime the English abandoned the struggle for the Spice Islands, and turned their attention entirely to the mainland of India.

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  • A shameless rake and a man of uncontrollable temper, his massacre of the people of Perugia after a rebellion in 1540 and the unspeakable outrage he committed on the bishop of Fano are typical of his character.

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  • But their discomfiture was only to last a few months; in the following October a wanton outrage and.

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  • In this year the campaign of outrage in Ireland was reinforced by one of dynamite in Great Britain.

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  • There are notorious examples of public art, such as those entered for the Turner prize, which cause derision or outrage.

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  • But for us, such fatalism would be an outrage.

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  • And an American flying gunship shot up a civilian wedding engagement party in Afghanistan, provoking outrage throughout the Islamic world.

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  • It is often the petty injustices and the high handedness of minor bureaucrats which often outrage and alienate Mr and Mrs Joe Public.

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  • It was the moves by the Chávez government to take control of oil industry that provoked the most immediate howls of outrage.

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  • Compensation is regarded as morally acceptable, while a bribe, however politely disguised as a cash inducement, is a matter for outrage.

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  • War veterans reacted with outrage last night as remembrance parades were targeted by health and safety killjoys.

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  • One leading neoconservative, William Bennett, wrote a book called The Death of Outrage, which blamed the people.

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  • Sixty thousand official complaints to the BBC represent an historic outpouring of genuine outrage.

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  • His choreography for The Rite of Spring was to provoke even greater outrage.

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  • The closure of the Post offices sparked outrage in the town.

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  • Yet, the ministers who committed this outrage are not in the dock.

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  • Photographs of prisoners subjected to sexual humiliation and other brutality at the hands of U.S. soldiers have prompted international outrage.

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  • However, a sense of moral outrage should be encouraged where the true crest has not been followed.

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  • There has been widespread outrage at the comment made by a man saying that a country should be " wiped from the map " .

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  • A tale of anarchy and terrorism, ranging across Europe and reaching its climax with a bomb outrage in Balham, south London.

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  • His death sparked outrage throughout Europe and culminated in the King making public penance.

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  • I doubt whether these will be embraced by the hard-nosed tabloid reporters who stir up instant outrage over Turner Prize exhibitions.

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  • This measure, which States, seemed to the pious an act of sacrilege, and to Italian patriots an outrage on the only independent sovereign of the peninsula, sufficed for the present.

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  • Despite the evidence which Fouche and others brought forward to incriminate the royalists, the First Consul persisted in attributing the outrage to the Jacobins, had a list of suspects drawn up, and caused the Council of State to declare that a special precautionary measure was necessary.

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  • He had, as Demosthenes boasts, an action for outrage like a freeman, and his death at the hand of a stranger was avenged like that of a citizen (Eurip. Hec. 288), whilst, if caused by his master's violence, it had to be atoned for by exile and a religious expiation.

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  • A bill to provide compensation for tenants who had been evicted by Irish landlords passed the Commons, but was shipwrecked in the Lords, and a ghastly record of outrage and murder stained the following winter.

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  • At sea, as on land, the Greeks opened the campaign with hideous atrocities, almost their first exploit being the capture of a vessel carrying to Mecca the sheik-ul-Islam and his family, whom they murdered with every aggravation of outrage.

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  • His policy was that of "coercion" - the fearless administration of the Crimes Act, - coupled with remedial legislation; and he enforced the one while he proceeded with the other, regardless of the risk of outrage outside the House and of insult within.

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  • Articles 11-14 forbid books which outrage God and sacred things, books which propagate magic and superstition, and books which are pernicious to society.

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  • The latest increases have sparked outrage from many quarters especially for people who live on fixed or low incomes, like pensioners.

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  • Would not it be an absolute outrage if billions were squandered on a new generation of nuclear weapons without a vote in the House?

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  • I 'm drawn to exhibits which outrage or stick two rebellious fingers up at the snotty art establishment.

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  • Documents have also been uncovered which reveal the Crown 's outrage at being " misled " by the police.

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  • This said "cred" is what caused an outrage among Fall Out Boy fans when rumors surfaced that Pete Wentz was dating her.

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  • You can find ways as a private citizen to express your outrage at pet mills and fight to close them.

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  • When the patient is confronted, they often react with outrage and check out of the hospital to seek treatment at another facility with a new caregiver.

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  • The article speculated that fan outrage and reaction may very well have impelled both the actor and Sony back to the negotiating table.

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  • By the 19th century, consumer demands and doctor outrage brought about a lingerie revolution.

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  • Outrage aside, it is the most TiVo'ed moment in TV history.

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  • Neither group was particularly successful in getting the public to join in their outrage over Eminem's lyrics on this album.

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  • Despite the outrage by show participants, Trading Spouses producers stood by their game play element.

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  • Some of these tales have aged better than others - some of them even outrage modern sensibilities with the inherent sexism of their underlying assumptions.

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  • Raiding gay bars was nothing new, and the police did it all the time in the sixties, but this time, it touched off violent riots, which many attribute to the gay community's smouldering sense of loss and outrage.

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  • Who can forget Lt. Reginald Barclay's Walter-Mitty-esque role-playing on the holodeck, or Troi's outrage when she found herself typecast in his fantasy life as the Goddess of Empathy?

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  • It may serve as a pretext for a serious quarrel whether the alleged " outrage " be great or small.

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  • Rabatta was murdered, the fugitive Uskoks returned to Zengg and piracy was resumed, with varying fortunes, until 1615, when a grosser outrage than usual led to open war between Venice and Austria.

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  • But this outrage was made a pretext for a general rising against William, whose legatine commission had now expired, and whose power was balanced by the presence of the archbishop of Rouen, Walter Coutances, with a commission from the king.

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  • No attempt, in fact, had been made to exclude the fat of cows and pigs, and apparently no one had realized that a gross outrage was thus being perpetrated on the religious feelings of both Hindu and Mahommedan sepoys.

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  • Outrages increased, obnoxious landlords and agents were boycotted the name of the first gentlelnan exposed to this treatment adding a new word to the language; and Forster, who had accepted the office of chief secretary, thought it necessary, in the presence of outrage and intimidation, to adopt stringent measures for enforcing order.

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  • Brunswick's famous declaration of the 25th of July, announcing that the allies would enter France to restore the royal authority and would visit the Assembly and the city of Paris with military execution if any further outrage were offered to the king, heated the republican spirit to fury.

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  • Humanitarian moralists, who hesitate to believe in the retributive theory of punishment because, as they think, its aim is not the criminal's future well-being but merely the vindication through pain of an outrage upon the moral law which the criminal need never have committed, might welcome a theory which urges that the sole aim of punishment should be the exercise of an influence determining the criminal's future conduct for his own or the social good.

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  • Of the ancient castle, which was also the bishop's palace, only the west tower exists, the rest of the structure having been destroyed in the outrage of 1570.

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  • His funeral, which was attended by the representatives of the powers at Sofia, was interrupted by disgraceful riots, and an effort was made to perpetrate an outrage on his remains.

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  • At the close of the year an Anarchist outrage gave the excuse for the proclamation of martial law in Barcelona, and after the opening of the new session of the Cortes (January 23, 1908) a bill was introduced into the senate giving to the government the most drastic powers for the suppression of Anarchism.

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  • This horrible outrage, which lasted more than an hour, happened, too, in the presence of numerous troops, drawn up in the Riddarhus Square, who made not the slightest effort to rescue the Riksmarskalk from his tormentors.

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  • After in vain attempting to obtain an apology for " the unparalleled outrage against a friendly power " he issued on the 10th of December a solemn hatti sheriff summoning the faithful to a holy war.

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  • His body was interred in the secrecy of night, for fear of outrage from the Parisians, by whom his name was cordially detested.

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  • Bishops, universities and humanists were at one in denunciation of the outrage; and as for the attitude of the people, Eck was glad to escape from Saxony with a whole skin.

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  • It is to be observed that, before the punishment was inflicted, evidence was forthcoming which brought home the outrage of Nivose to the royalists; but this was all one to Bonaparte; his aim was to destroy the Jacobin party, and it never recovered from the blow.

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  • His practical motto, if he is the author of the Economics attributed to him, is - " no outrage, and no familiarity."

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  • This is significant enough; Prof. Sayce, the most brilliant and distinguished of the " anti-critics," does not really reoccupy the position of the " able and pious men " of the mid-19th century, to whom " even to speak of any portion of the Bible as a history " was " an outrage upon religion " (Stanley, Jewish Church, Preface); these may still have pious, but they have no longer scholarly successors.

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  • An explanation of the outrage being demanded by the Bombay government, the sultan undertook to make compensation for the plunder of the vessel, and also agreed to sell his town and port to the English.

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  • There were some members of the party who wished to turn to outrage and assassination.

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  • This outrage, coupled with his appropriation of temple vessels, which he used as bribes, raised against Menelaus the senate and the people of Jerusalem.

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