Ohio's new law is an affront to women, an affront to families, an affront to the rule of law, and an affront to the Constitution.
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" Trump: Attack is an 'affront to humanity' US President Donald Trump says the airstrike has changed his views on Syria and Assad, calling it an "affront to humanity.
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" Continuing, he called it "an affront to our culture.
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My lifestyle was an affront to their whole value system.
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It was a direct affront to an entire moral system.
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"This is an affront to our national ideals," Schneiderman said.
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No— it would have been an outright affront to civilization.
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Breaches are an affront to decades of innovation and research.
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Breaches are an affront to ethics, customer support, and trust.
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The current executive order poses an affront to our values.
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Our holiday joy is an affront to their nihilistic sadism.
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Violations of these rules are an affront to all charities.
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Trump regards multilateral cooperation as an unacceptable affront to sovereignty.
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Both men believe the movement is an affront to democracy.
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The idea that he might not be is an affront.
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This action is an utterly scandalous affront to our democracy.
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But wealth taxes are not necessarily an affront to economics.
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It is an affront to the first principles of constitutionalism.
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Displaying ceremonial artifacts is a particular affront to tribe members.
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Such measures are not just an affront to human rights.
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An affront to everything that's right and decent in sports?
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Bobby is correct in interpreting this gesture as a personal affront.
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His ideas on revenue and spending are an affront to statistics.
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The Hollywood guard sees this as an affront to artistic vision.
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The email wasn't a big enough affront to justify a response.
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They think man-made laws are an affront to divine ones.
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This makes no sense and is an affront to every taxpayer.
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They thought being gay was a disease, an affront to God.
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"This could be perceived as an affront to chess," he says.
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"What's new is the affront to the Lebanese state," Nasrallah said.
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It is dishonorable, and an affront to sportsmanship, competition, and virtue.
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How that represents an affront to American democracy is anyone's guess.
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Still, not all Venezuelan immigrants regard Trump's agenda as an affront.
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This is a tragedy and an affront to core American principles.
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An evangelical Christian group called it an affront to human dignity.
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This exception is an affront to everyone's privacy and must be revoked.
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Putin views NATO expansion as a threat and an affront to Russia.
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This is a direct affront to the post-Cold War global order.
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It's not a huge affront on our free speech—it's simple humanity.
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Industrialized meat, milk and egg production is an affront to our humanity.
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This isn't the only affront to women's rights making news this week.
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This is an affront to the foundational extradition principle of double criminality.
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The new logo is an affront to millennial and Gen-Z sensibilities.
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Unfortunately, however, the sting attempt was an affront to sexual assault survivors.
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My snow cream failure seemed like a personal affront to the dead.
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This extravagance is also an affront to the rules of natural selection.
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People seem to take my veganism as an affront to their lifestyle.
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They'll never fold to me because that's an affront to their masculinity.
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The whole thing is a disruption, an affront to sense and logic.
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Graham, however, did not view attacks on Vindman necessarily as an affront.
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AMERICANS USED TO recoil at secret diplomacy as an affront to democracy.
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One said that he viewed them as an affront to his art.
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Bad art isn't just an affront to the senses, it's bad business.
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The photographs by Steven Klein were a calculated affront to bourgeois sensibilities.
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It's an affront to principle, campaign promises and their own party platform.
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ICIJ Director Gerard Ryle called Perrin's indictment an affront to press freedom.
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They are an affront to all those who play by the rules.
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Rights groups say that it is an affront to basic human rights.
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Yet they taught me that I am not an affront to anybody.
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" And in 2010, when Congress approved the Affordable Care Act, Mr. Price called it "a dark day for America," saying that "our founders are weeping" over a bill that was "an affront to federalism, an affront to individual liberty.
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People have taken this as some sort of personal affront when it isn't.
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These arguments are not only an affront to justice—they are also wrong.
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The wrath of Moldova seems to have been sparked by a personal affront.
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Evolution can be expected to take a dim view of such an affront.
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Semple has since responded to Kapoor's affront with his own digit-based witticism.
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" Not "wrong" mind you, or "probably unconstitutional" or "an affront to American values.
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And leather, on the other hand, is an affront to an owner's sensibilities.
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To call Suicide Squad a disappointment would be an affront to your intelligence.
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People just feel it is kind of an affront to say not going.
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The constant affront can keep you on edge and unable to find peace.
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"This action is an affront on the legislature," he said in a statement.
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How are we to trust her sincerity now after this jaw-dropping affront?
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But in India there is an added twist, a double sense of affront.
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Immediately took it as what it was to him, an affront to him.
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Donald Trump is an affront to basic standards of honesty, virtue and citizenship.
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Evan: I'll watch any band so long as it's an affront to God.
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"You would not think that an affront to the gay community?" he asked.
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"It has to be answered because this was an affront to our democracy."
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This is a direct affront to the judicial branch's power, not reasoned disagreement.
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Confucius Institutes are an affront to intellectual freedom, national security, and American interests.
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The new McCarthyism is an affront to the First Amendment of the Constitution.
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New York's law is a terrible affront to the dignity of human life.
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Rikers Island is an affront to the civic values of New York City.
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Everything is a shocking affront, a do-or-die turning point, an outrage.
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For them, moderate success is the ultimate affront – practically an incitement to civil disorder.
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Fabricio, as supporters refer to Alvarado Munoz, called the ruling an affront to sovereignty.
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"Each of these crimes is a serious affront against the United States," said Pauley.
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Still, she perceived me ignoring her on WhatsApp as a sort of personal affront.
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Donald Trump's immigration stance is a total affront to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Experts say he most likely saw Khashoggi's killing in Istanbul as a personal affront.
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The separation of their bodies seemed an affront to the natural order of things.
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Yet to hear ridicule from Americans was an affront to the country's national character.
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"What he's done is an affront to the American people," Corker said of Putin.
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But many see the price rises as an affront, not as a painful necessity.
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Ted Cruz, believe that limiting Jones's online reach is an affront to free speech.
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"Detaining peaceful protesters and journalists is an affront to core democratic values," he continued.
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Congress must vote to strike down this affront to our values as Americans. pic.twitter.
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"Any kind of provocation would be considered a real affront to Xi," said Balding.
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" The 81-year-old justice expressed concern about an "affront to the gay community.
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Suffering from a protracted interregnum last year, Germany took all that as an affront.
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In his press conference, Sessions claimed that DACA was an affront to American citizens.
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Igniting that first 9-foot effigy was an artful affront to the status quo.
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I took that movie as a personal affront to the truth, to real history.
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This law is a cruel affront to their dignity and should be struck down.
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The all-caps branding seems like a direct affront to millennials and Gen-Zers.
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To me, the pairing of Lewis Hayden and the N.R.A. felt like an affront.
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Unfortunately, that affront can't now be undone, especially if you've known for some time.
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Trump's bragging about concealing them is an affront to Congress and the American people.
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But, it should be an affront to people of good conscience of any community.
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The White House's refusal to regularly brief reporters is another affront to normal transparency.
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Ms. Ortega has denounced the plan as an affront to the country's democratic principles.
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Beijing views the unrest in the Chinese territory as an affront to its authority.
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The school's reasoning, says Dean Cynthia Newman, is an affront to her Christian beliefs.
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Teddy Roosevelt went out of his way not to affront his interlocutors in public.
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The CFPB in its present form is an affront to our form of government.
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A few opiners insisted that the real affront lay in Tlaib's threat of impeachment.
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Although that will not happen right away, Palestinians saw it as a deep affront.
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But Cook considers that an affront to the basic promise of the Apple brand.
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In fact, their actions were an affront to a religion based on peace and compassion.
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Some people might say it's an affront to the traditional dish, but we say whatever!
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These monuments are an affront in a city whose elected officials preach tolerance and equity.
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This makes so little sense that to even say so is an affront to sensibleness.
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On Monday, critics of Mr. Mulvaney assailed the report as an affront to vulnerable consumers.
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Each time a new Nine Stories film was announced, it felt like a personal affront.
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Some tycoons have had to sell prized assets to keep afloat, a once unthinkable affront.
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They're an affront to the racial barriers designed to distort ideas around non-white excellence.
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Mr Ellermann thinks it an aesthetic affront that violates the European ethos of invisible borders.
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If this sounds like an affront to the constitution, the PiS-dominated tribunal seems unperturbed.
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That also is an affront both to the Lawrence family and the community at large.
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Many see the rules that bind signatories to trade pacts as an affront to democracy.
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This would be a hoot and an affront to the small minority of orthodox fans.
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Walking around with a crown and a pedigree is an affront to the human race.
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It was an affront that for her, a religious Muslim, was equal to sexual assault.
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Every new affront ratchets up the already-tense leftist base and riles up Republican RINOs.
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Liberal Western sexual mores are the most troubling affront to a certain strain of Islam.
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The Trump-Pence ticket is a daily affront to basic standards of decency and humanity.
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Once perceived as an affront to professionalism, it has since settled in as a convention.
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Anything less is an affront to common decency and an abdication of duty to constituents.
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Sanders' actions were an affront not just to those southerners, but to blacks in Missouri.
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It's an affront that deserves to be a defining issue in next year's midterm campaigns.
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Each is an affront that must be dealt with appropriately — in state or federal court.
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While an adolescent's frosty demeanor might seem like a pointed affront, it's almost certainly not.
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The latest affront occurs in the Federal Emergency Management Administration's recently released National Preparedness Report.
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The prejudices promulgated by this site are an affront to American values and human decency.
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Garrett Epps, a law professor at the University of Baltimore, called the ruling an affront.
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"This is illegal and an affront to our food system, economy, and environment," he continued.
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The invasion was widely seen as an affront to the very idea of black sovereignty.
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Because that's really an affront on them, you know, they are talking about civil liberties.
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Some British officials saw the president's failure to send his No. 2 as an affront.
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I take their desperate act as a personal affront and as an assault on decency. . . .
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For them, their point is simple: to make hookah illegal would be a cultural affront.
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" In the request for dismissal, Anglin calls the lawsuit "an affront to the First Amendment.
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She apologized -- but then seemed to renew the affront with more remarks last week. Reps.
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" At the time, Omar called the decision "an affront" and "an insult to democratic values.
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These policies are a direct affront to the Supreme Court's 1992 decision in Quill v.
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"Accommodating this demand would be an affront to fundamental notions of due process," their letter said.
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Even replacing middle managers Mr Tata had championed was seen as an affront to his legacy.
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The Turkish move was an affront to to the international community, the Greek foreign ministry said.
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In both countries, religious police guard against violations, a deeply offensive affront, particularly to modern women.
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It is an affront to the U.S. Constitution, and a direct threat to our nation's stability.
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Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success": "It was an affront to my idealism.
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To the contrary, "perhaps the longer a violation persists, the greater the affront to those offended".
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And yet the West Hollywood City Council considers President Trump an affront to its moral compass?
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The move was seen as an affront to streaming services and the video-on-demand industry.
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The mandate is an affront to the good judgment of taxpayers and the concept of federalism.
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President Trump's budget proposal is an affront to decency, economics and, at a basic level, math.
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As a result, any restrictions are considered an affront to the open aspects of community dialogue.
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Hannity followers have decried the pressure by advertisers as a stifling affront to free speech rights.
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"Anyone who watched yesterday's hearings, it was an affront to women across this country," Perez said.
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It was also a notable affront to Sessions, who was also seated in the front row.
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There's almost a certain amount of gleeful indignation at this latest affront from some Yiannopoulos supporters.
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"Jealousy gnawed her vitals, affront inflamed her proper pride, ingratitude aroused her moral indignation," Winston wrote.
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New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis called the accord an affront, and the Tsipras government a 'nightmare'.
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The Mullahs run a vile government that is an affront to human rights and decency itself.
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To dismiss their work as fake news is an affront to their commitment and their sacrifice.
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That seems wrong, and like a cosmic affront we'll have to atone for at some point.
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There's gerrymandering, for example, which is an affront to the one-vote-for-one-person principle.
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There are people, besides the justifiably nervous #EllsworthKellyHive, who would find great affront in this suggestion.
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Transgender Muslims have been arrested in droves, their very existence seen as an affront to Islam.
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Together, the crises represent a devastating affront to the traditional way of life on the Klamath.
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Attorney General Raquel Dodge assailed the move, calling it unconstitutional and an affront to human dignity.
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Lawmakers defended the 1 percent raises as fiscally responsible, but teachers saw them as an affront.
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Susan Wieland, a neighbor who reported Kidd's vacation rental, believes the artwork is a personal affront.
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But the real affront is to democracy, which flounders in the absence of a free press.
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To opponents, they were a waste of taxpayer money and an affront to Mexico and immigrants.
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I'm all for empowerment, especially for girls, but no reasonable adult reacts to every perceived affront.
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The only emotions he shows are rage and affront, at imagined slights to his own stature.
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This is an affront to children everywhere: children are not inherently narcissistic, ignorant, cruel, or vindictive.
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It is an affront to our present, and it is a bad prescription for our future.
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The country's prying press and disgruntled passengers see its shortcomings as an affront to Britishness itself.
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"It was an affront to all of our senses," recalls an executive involved in the deliberations.
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Cory Booker also described Sowore's re-arrest as a "shocking affront" on Nigeria's rule of law.
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Firing Meredith was also not a personal affront to Qadri — it's not about you, lowly intern.
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Whatever sentiments of disaffection and affront may seem to apply, the artist's exhilaration takes center stage.
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"I don't see that as an affront," Machnig added of Gabriel's no-show for his speech.
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Kipling interpreted the diplomatic spat as a personal affront, and felt betrayed by his adopted home.
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"The mere suggestion is an affront to Chair Yellen," the press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.
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Even the notion of the Knicks City Dancers, organized in 1991, was an affront to her.
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"It is an affront to their dignity and an arbitrary interference with their right to privacy."
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But in what seems like a weird affront, the PlayStation Classic doesn't come with a power adapter.
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Destroying data is as egregious an affront to the most basic Enlightenment values as is book-burning.
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The affront of Michael Jackson being played by a white guy The trailer has Twitter beside itself.
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This information, as well as Goodall's methodology, was an affront to academics and ethologists at the time.
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"It's an affront to the openness and transparency that the American people are entitled to," Schumer said.
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Screamo is an outright affront to the modern hardcore scene and all its goofy turns and styles.
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The move sparked an outcry from academics, who attacked the decision as an affront to academic freedom.
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But Mr Lighthizer seems to regard chapter 19 as an affront to America's right of self-defence.
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But this week Mr Trump took a step that China will see as an even bigger affront.
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Conversations with some of his Arabic law students convinced him that many would find it an affront.
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"This lawsuit is a direct affront to First Amendment principles and free speech in our democratic society."
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This lawsuit is a direct affront to First Amendment principles and free speech in our democratic society.
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It has, however, proven a greater affront to civil rights than it has a weapon against crime.
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The proposal, it said, was an "affront to society", and a threat to "the sanctity of family".
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The hijacking of the club he loved by a group of extremists felt like a personal affront.
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Obama can speak about Trump's sexism as a personal affront to her as a woman; Clinton can't.
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More important, giving officials the power to order women to disrobe is an affront to human dignity.
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That is an affront to hard-working, average Americans who need Congress to level the playing field.
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Discharge petitions are traditionally seen as a serious affront to leadership, making members reluctant to sign on.
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The occupation of Crimea and interference in America's election are an affront to the lessons of history.
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"They are an affront and an insult to our higher angels and our best selves," Booker added.
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"For someone to hold up a Facebook post as journalism is kind of an affront," he said.
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In this light, the allegation of bias based on ethnicity is a worrisome affront to judicial independence.
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" Toner said, "Detaining peaceful protesters, human rights observers, and journalists is an affront to core democratic values.
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She drew support from other celebrity women who saw the criticism as an affront to self expression.
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Anything less will be viewed as a humiliation and an affront to the world's second-largest economy.
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"But we, black women from the poor neighborhoods, are going to affront this authoritarian nonsense," she said.
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President Donald Trump, however, has characterized the protests as an affront to the flag, military, and country.
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" His speech there, she asserted, will be "an affront to President Abraham Lincoln's spare brilliance, the Rev.
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The next affront, he added, was the "20183-degree turn against Jewish Germans" by the political establishment.
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This move was seen as illegitimate by many drug policy researchers and an affront to religious freedom.
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At the same time, denying links to the party could be perceived as an affront in Beijing.
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The Canadian government's public scolding was therefore seen as an unacceptable affront that required a vigorous response.
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We talked about sexual assault as an affront of the patriarchy, and universities did not like it.
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His political opponents reacted with horror, as if erecting a barricade were an affront to human rights.
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Trade experts have derided that strategy as an affront to the norms of the international trading system.
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Every day brings some fresh affront to decency, some assault on progress, some blow to the truth.
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"Detaining peaceful protesters, human rights observers, and journalists is an affront to core democratic values," he added.
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To Mr. Castro and many other Cubans, such behavior was an affront to national dignity and sovereignty.
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We decided that was too much of an affront for us to move forward with the meeting.
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It was an affront to them to have a confident female artist who believed in her brilliance.
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The reason for these mishaps is not due to a personal affront from the chef or your server.
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And that was an affront to the entire nation, who has not committed one single act of terror.
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THE TRUST FUND ASSHOLE I definitely charge this kid more because he's such an affront to everything decent.
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But some worry that this is a cynical bias and an affront to academic freedom and intellectual progress.
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Trump's personal attacks on the judge hearing the case against Trump University are an affront against that principle.
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And yet I've made a decision about my son that feels like an affront to my feminist values.
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North Korean cyber-attackers have used China as a base: America calls that an affront to Chinese sovereignty.
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But, before we get to this latest affront, let's do a quick recap on how we got here.
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That their clothes are not just an affront but also an invitation, and a possible harbinger of blame.
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The Mexicans will surely see the project as an affront, so it would require massive feats of diplomacy.
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That the seats were empty in the first place was an affront to the city's pro- democracy movement.
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Unfortunately, however, Netflix users just aren't that into it — some are even calling it an affront to Cinema.
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U.S. President Donald Trump, in a post on Twitter, portrayed the missile test as an affront to China.
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John McCain too knows just how sharply Trump is capable of retaliating when he senses a personal affront.
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"The thing we keep in there is an affront," Strickland says, referring to what lurks in the tank.
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The problem is that bad cops take the order to abide a modicum of transparency as an affront.
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The suggestion that he spy on his colleagues was an affront, he felt, to his honor and integrity.
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Even the show's name is something of an affront to the White House — and to Mr. Trump himself.
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It's all been a dream come true for the Grammy hopeful—and an affront to her past naysayers.
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"What she's doing is out of step with past precedent and an affront to the Senate," Graham said.
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This is a direct affront to our Founding Fathers, who wanted America to be strong, independent and free.
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After Pyongyang's missile test on Sunday, Trump took to Twitter, casting the launch as an affront on China.
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Dean Baquet, executive editor of The Times, denounced the action as unjustified and an affront to press freedom.
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Haley defended the veto on Monday, saying that the Security Council resolution was an affront to U.S. sovereignty.
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"His alleged behavior is abhorrent and an affront to every law enforcement professional working the LAPD," it said.
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Directed at public servants with whom practically everyone has had personal relationships, the affront posed a political problem.
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Encounter a troll, or a godawful doxer, and it's not like watching a sitcom—it's a bruising personal affront.
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" Mr. Ban described Israel's continued settlement activities as "an affront to the Palestinian people and to the international community.
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Even some of Bolsonaro's allies in Congress see the choice as an unprecedented affront to Brazil's experienced diplomatic corps.
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I recall once smugly asserting that such an affront to democratic proceedings was simply inconceivable — it would never happen.
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However, for loyalists who've grown attached to those products, the scope for innovation feels more like a personal affront.
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Yannis Mouzalas, Greece's migration minister, said last week that conditions at the camp were an "affront which should stop".
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Low voter turnout is an affront to the idea of majority rule that is the essence of self-governance.
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Although the cats themselves are an affront to nature, it's hard not to applaud hanamomoact for her ingenuity.[Rocketnews]
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"[It was] a personal affront to her and to her god," he said, according to the Pine Bluff Commercial.
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Fabricio, as supporters call him, called it an affront to traditional values and sovereignty in the Central American nation.
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To suggest this is or should be an affront to rapper Future's masculinity or pride is extremely narrow-minded.
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When an outrageous affront to women's rights and dignity is perpetrated, we must stand up and insist it stop.
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"This behavior is more than bad operational security — it is an egregious affront to national security," the letter said.
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The sentence was viewed by fellow authors, journalists, and human rights activists as an affront to freedom of expression.
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Now, the newest affront to our childhood movie memories will arrive in a week: the CGI Lion King remake.
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Their backwards, medieval border wall and deportation agenda is an affront to the values I — we all — fought for.
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I worry about trauma victims who see the inaction of others as a personal affront, that they don't matter.
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"This is kind of an affront to the Senate's role in advising and consenting to the president's nominations," Sen.
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Including these harmful riders in the underlying bill is a direct affront to the regular order we all want.
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"I think that's a real affront to the American people," Paul said on "Fox & Friends," referring to Pelosi's request.
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Proposing budget cuts on the heels of a long-sought reauthorization is an affront to our children and families.
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The presidency of Donald Trump is, in this analysis, more than anything else an affront to institutions and traditions.
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The U.S. State Department had also criticized Russia's handling of those protests, calling them an affront to democratic values.
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The landmark agreement was brokered by the Obama administration and European leaders, who took Trump's announcement as an affront.
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In fact, they'd taken affront at the suggestion, claiming that as their tarsiers were domesticated, they didn't travel far.
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It's an affront to our nation of immigrants, a country in which equality is written into our founding documents.
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Russia viewed these revolutions as being orchestrated by the West and as an affront to its sphere of influence.
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Name Withheld This is all a little indirect and abstract; you clearly find writing about this affront exquisitely painful.
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It's also a pretty direct affront to Google and the efforts that tech giant has made around local search.
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To the protesters on the streets, the reforms are an affront to workers' rights — and to French national identity.
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Which brings us to the other plane on which the current presidency represents an affront to Wehner: traditional morality.
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We see it as an affront to the medical advances that aim to center longevity over quality of life.
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He even famously voted down Trump's health care bill in dramatic fashion, which Trump took as a personal affront.
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Finding technically legal ways to grind down, pressure and reshape law enforcement is an affront to our constitutional democracy.
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Some Jamaican men seem to take it as a personal affront to their manhood when they see us together.
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In a strikingly personal affront, one group even delivered a severed pig's head to a police officer's wedding banquet.
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"Detaining peaceful protesters and journalists is an affront to core democratic values," White House press secretary Sean Spicer said.
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They may even see my reluctance to have kids as a personal affront, as if I'm criticizing their choices.
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Going in, we knew that the situation already represents an affront to due process rights, statutes, and treaty obligations.
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Revisionist countries that wish to challenge the U.S.-led system see this as an affront to their economic sovereignty.
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Dixon, a 30-year-old descendant of some of those Civil War soldiers, considers the threat a personal affront.
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Most important, meddling is an affront to the integrity and autonomy of national elections, the essential feature of democracies.
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From an aesthetic perspective, it was a philistine's tackle; an affront to the beautiful game in its total ugliness.
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For others, basic economy is an affront to human decency and represents an attack on the flying public's dignity.
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The fact that this thing is just trundling around intact is an affront to the notion of human pleasure.
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She said the tariffs were an affront to close partners of the United States like the European Union and Germany.
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Its development in the absence of significant rulemaking is in fact an affront to the entire enterprise of telecom regulation.
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"A public tribute to a dictator was more than an anachronism it was an affront to our democracy," Sanchez said.
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His supporters contend that removing the country's most popular presidential candidate from the ballot would be an affront to democracy.
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At the same time, Greek reluctance or inability to achieve something is seen as a direct affront to its partners.
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Der Spiegel, the German magazine, reported that Belgium's Muslims took the near-unanimous vote as an affront to their identity.
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Joe Biden's version of the campaign to run against Donald Trump is Donald Trump is an affront to American values.
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In Mr Trump's view, China's new tariffs are not a reprisal, but a fresh affront, to which he must respond.
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Leaders of the fractious opposition coalition boycotted the July 30 election of the assembly, branding it an affront to democracy.
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What once started as an affront to bagels escalated to an internet-wide attack on the city of St. Louis.
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I cannot tell them the Nomads of the north now reign in Peking, an affront they would not believe possible.
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Her campaign and their blatant circumventing of the rules are the biggest affront to democracy I've witnessed in my lifetime.
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Don't take the illness as a personal affront and certainly don't abandon them; that's probably the worst way to react.
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The travel ban is also a personal affront to many of the executives who now call the United States home.
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According to the book A Great Game, long ago, paying hockey players was seen by some as a disgusting affront.
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"Not content with it, they put an affront on the mission that came to celebrate an event of the nation".
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"Discriminating against Muslim Americans is also an affront to the very values that already make our nation great," Obama said.
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It's an affront to humanity that the people of Japan can't play Pokémon Go. At least we got Miitomo first.
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Cheating changes this and is such an affront to the sport, that people spend a lot of time combating this.
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"They saw this as an affront," recalled Mr. Hang, who had been expecting to meet with Mr. Cuomo that afternoon.
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Amnesty in the midst of a full-blown border crisis is an affront to common sense and the American people.
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It was a bit of an affront to my punk rock sensibilities, where every band had to have a cause.
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Likewise, the rejection of knowable truths was an affront to believers in a fixed moral universe based on shared values.
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But even she seems taken aback by the latest affront: a court order requiring her to take a psychiatric evaluation.
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What you find is that sometimes some white people see that as an affront to the power that they have.
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Forcing these women to make an impossible choice between their faith and their livelihood is an affront to human dignity.
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"They wanted us to go to a hilly farming place," said Rodrigo Cosicol, 66, shaking his head at the affront.
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This would be the bitter and ultimate irony of Bernie's candidacy, and the greatest affront to everything he stands for.
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Mitch McConnell's plan to rush to an acquittal is an affront to the Constitution and a disservice to the nation.
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While smaller ethnic groups would welcome it, he said, the powerful Dinka see it as an affront to their sovereignty.
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On Capitol Hill and Wall Street, those remarks were taken as an affront on the bank's independence from political pressure.
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" Castro told CNN's Chris Cuomo after the debate that the comment was "not intended as a personal attack or affront.
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" Castro told CNN's Chris Cuomo after the debate that the comment was "not intended as a personal attack or affront.
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On December 23, 2015, exactly one year after the NATO affront to Russia by the Ukrainian government, BlackEnergy was unleashed.
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Warren's bill is such an affront to the private equity industry because it would fundamentally change how it does business.
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Greece, which has a northern territory also called Macedonia, saw the country's use of the name as a historical affront.
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When the law's opponents portrayed Obamacare as a unique affront to personal liberty, this is what they had in mind.
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One Twitter user called Guillaume C. reacted to the spelling changes, including the pruning of the circumflex, as a personal affront.
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The affront of Columbus Day is particularly upsetting to Dre because no official holiday exists to celebrate the abolition of slavery.
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"This was seen as an affront, a debasement," Weldon says in Episode 196 of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast.
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Chelsea told Elle magazine that, in her early 20s, her curls just naturally subsided; an affront to frizzy-haired women everywhere.
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It was an affront to personal freedom: big-government liberals forcing Americans to buy something they might not want or need.
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But recent efforts to marginalize certain people and groups, specifically transgender and gender-nonconforming people, are an affront to America's inclusiveness.
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But in the face of this affront on my existence and the existence of my community I choose love not fear.
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It's an affront to the dignity of working people, and has led to historic levels of income inequality in our country.
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He called it an affront to students who worked hard to get their degrees and their families who had supported them.
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"Ahmadinejad knows full well that his candidacy is an affront to Khamenei who had publicly barred him from running," said Vaez.
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"It crossed a lot of lines for me," Trump said of the attack, which he described as an affront to humanity.
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He reckoned that new ideas were a "humiliation" and an "affront" not only to people's sensibilities but to their convictions, too.
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But it has also blocked deeper EU defense cooperation, fearing an EU army that would be an affront to its sovereignty.
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So many saw it as a dodgy swap of land for cash, and therefore as an affront to Egyptian national pride.
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You can believe Murphy helped Yang make the cutoff and that cheaters are an affront to everything the sport stands for.
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But France is among the European Union countries that view companies' aggressive tax-minimization strategies as an affront to national sovereignty.
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It was a strategy that was at once effective in gaining an audience while also being an affront to House rules.
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Mr. Trump's warning was his latest affront to Republicans who have urged him to adopt a more cooperative and unifying tone.
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Whether or not one supports marijuana law reform, one should find legislators' attitudes and actions an affront to the democratic process.
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Probably, they were talking about Ronald Reagan , whose long West Coast ascent my grandparents took as a kind of personal affront.
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"Silencing these voices is an affront to the First Amendment and to the core values of our democracy," the group wrote.
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The EU's made considerable efforts to stimulate financial competition in the bloc — and likely views Libra as an affront to this.
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Mugabe's move was the final affront to powerful officials in the ruling ZANU-PF party, many of whom were backing Mnangagwa.
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At times, I admit, I feel personal affront at having the value of my own earned credentials seemingly discounted by some.
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That statement inadvertently spurred new boycott threats — from potential shoppers who saw the company's decision as an affront to women's rights.
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It is cruel, disgraceful and an affront to the due process rights enshrined in our laws and established by our courts.
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Leaders of the fractious opposition coalition boycotted the July 30 election of the assembly, branding it as an affront to democracy.
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Last year linguistics professor Julie Sedivy wrote a piece defending mumbling against claims that it was an affront to proper language.
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The lawyers there say the ordinance is an "affront to gardeners everywhere" and denies the Miami Shore couple their constitutional rights.
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She saw this as an affront to the stoicism with which both parents and the wider community should suffer screaming children.
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Others expressed sorrow: She was an affront to Islam, but God, not man, should have been the one to punish her.
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My experienced employees get it, but some of the junior ones seem to consider it an affront to their entire existence.
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Kickstarter was an affront to that value-system, a way that groups could fund ideas outside of the realm of profit.
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Reviewers have typically complained of his aloofness ("stingy" is the word that comes up) with an almost spousal sense of affront.
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Opponents of the decision see it as an affront to Norwegian and global artistic heritage, and a capitulation to Mr. Breivik.
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Or perhaps they were both too fraught, an affront to some people's morals, simply for intimating the acceptance of other lifestyles.
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For a woman, getting old is as much of a career-ending affront as an assault allegation is for a man.
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It called the action "an affront" to Trump's diplomatic strategy that showed North Korean pique at his refusal to lift sanctions.
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As the historian Max Holland has shown, Felt hoped to become director himself and took Nixon's decision as a personal affront.
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As passion sours into betrayal, a personal affront quickly feeds a political outrage that, in turn, ignites a violent peasant uprising.
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The students who saw the careless idealization of Rhodes as an affront might find guidance in greater figures of our history.
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That's an effort environmentalists consider an affront to the Antiquities Act, a law signed by conservation champion Theodore Roosevelt in 1906.
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This is an affront to science, the law, and to the bedrock protections that impact the daily lives of all Americans.
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Any public information lockdown is an affront to both the spirit of the Freedom of Information Act and the public trust.
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Many are friends of mine; they speak to me of his crassness which, they say, is an affront to the presidency.
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For them, multiculturalism is not an affront to traditional notions of society, as it would have been in the Reagan era.
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Sometimes, you just want to watch a movie, not keep a running inventory of each affront, every offensive line or beat.
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Critics of Prime Minister Narendra Modi regard the decision as an attack on India's secular identity and an affront to democracy.
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Critics of Prime Minister Narendra Modi regard the decision as an attack on India's secular identity and an affront to democracy.
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The destruction of a cathedral that defines the ethos of a great nation, a great city, seems almost a personal affront.
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"Whatever we do in that space, we want to make sure it's not an affront to the cable space," he told reporters.
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This disgusting act of hatred violates the deepest values and core commitments of our University and is an affront to us all.
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Surely at this point we all agree that there can be no greater affront to a person's rights and dignity than slavery.
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It's a direct affront to Beijing, which is using this day to commemorate China's rise to power and its growing global clout.
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The first might be described as the kind of behaviour that would be an affront to anyone with a modicum of decency.
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His generals will be trying to talk him out of that, as an affront to a crucial ally at a delicate time.
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It's an exceptionally rude affront, considering these are probably the exact ants that helped to raise the butterflies when they were defenseless.
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Foster's classic Boomer egocentrism took every minor inconvenience that comes with living in a society and warped it into a personal affront.
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This has made him maladroit in dealing with anti-Semitism because he treats it as an affront to his own moral purity.
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Even the main character's last name, which I thought was an affront to Russian common sense, might not be a deal breaker.
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It was too strange; it felt like an affront to the guys in the clubhouse who had actually come up playing baseball.
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"Congress, on the other hand, may lash out, as this will be seen as another affront to the U.S. and regional stability."
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Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson condemned the attack in strong words, characterizing the attack as an affront to the city of Chicago.
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Rousseff slammed the judge's release of the recordings, calling it illegal, anti-democratic and an affront to the rights of the presidency.
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Let's face it: Trump is an affront to human decency and a danger to the moral and social fabric of our nation.
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He said it would have been an affront to "due process" had he chosen to immediately dismiss the retired Army lieutenant general.
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The United Nations' refugee agency (UNHCR) criticized the proposals, saying last Thursday that they were an "affront" to refugees' dignity, Reuters reported.
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Does it see it as a major affront requiring a forceful response, perhaps digital assaults of its own on US commercial targets?
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Critics in and outside of Egypt have signaled alarm at what they say is blatant authoritarianism and yet another affront to democracy.
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" Cuomo called the practice that separates families at the border "an affront to the values that built this state and this nation.
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But some observers saw the students' decision to express pride in being undocumented as an affront, and criticized them on social media.
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White evangelicals, in turn, followed Trump's lead, treating Kaepernick's protest as a direct affront to the sanctity of an (implicitly Christian) America.
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African nations had also supported the move, though South Sudan's government had claimed that it would be an affront to its sovereignty.
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The cleric has denied this and said he played no role in the attempted coup, denouncing it as an affront to democracy.
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Both Coons and McCain have publicly decried the practice, and McCain released a statement Monday calling it an "affront" to American decency.
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In both cases the responses were so disproportionate you suspect that the rulers in question took the Canadian affront a little personally.
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At a time when men demanded that female performers be curvy and voluptuous, a thin woman parading herself onstage was an affront.
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Republican lawmakers have blasted the tariffs, calling them a tax on U.S. consumers and an affront to key economic and military partners.
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"This is a direct affront to equality, civil rights and local autonomy," the Senate Democratic leader, Dan Blue, said in a statement.
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This affront to the Constitution is an insult to the other two branches of government as well as to Judge Garland personally.
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With images of intense, pure pain, the installation feels like an affront; but it is, at its core, something basic, repeated daily.
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These tactics are an affront to the memory of Andrew Goodman and all who died fighting for equal voting rights decades ago.
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And atop all that, our political culture has evolved to see the removal of a president as a historic, perhaps dangerous, affront.
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Of course not ― most of us would find such a law to be not only unconstitutional but an affront to one's conscience.
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The hacking of an American by a foreign leader would count as an affront to national sovereignty and security under normal protocols.
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Harvard's answer — you can never outlive your crime — is an affront to a first-rate candidate and brings shame on those responsible.
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"The revised travel ban is an affront to American values, weakens our national security and is unconstitutional," Emanuel said in a statement.
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"Serial offenders who repeatedly rob or repeatedly affront women must feel the full force of the law," Merkel told journalists in Mainz.
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Put simply, for the findings of Mueller's final report not to reach the public would be an affront to the American people.
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The argument was an affront to many readers, who rushed to point out that in reality, women of all types are harassed.
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But the King-for-Churchill swap angered some Anglophiles -- and conservative pundits -- who felt that Churchill's ouster was an affront to the British.
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Republicans also consider the mandate an affront to personal liberty — it was the foundation of the 2012 Supreme Court case challenging Obamacare's constitutionality.
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Listed on Amazon as the "Disguise Men's Toad Costume Accessory Mask - Adult," this Toad mask, pictured above, is an affront to the senses.
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In "Late," Aunt Lydia (the always towering Ann Dowd) sneers at Ofglen (née Emily) that she's "a thing" and an affront to God.
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Not only is the supernatural drama's central coupling an affront to the very celebration it kicks off, it simply didn't have to happen.
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Mainly Christians, they knelt and prayed, warning that the proposed laws were not only an affront to religion but would also promote promiscuity.
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Their attacks on climate science are an affront to all the scientists working to understand and solve this singular crisis of our time.
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They serve, almost, as an affront to its audience, daring it to stick with the film past the hard-ons and the blowjobs.
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This "degenerate art" was so publicly reviled, such an affront to the National Socialist identity, that it simply had to go on display.
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The initiative "is an affront to our values as a country and the very mission of the (DOJ's) civil rights division," Gupta said.
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Luckily such cities are standing as a bulwark against such assaults, which are an affront to the U.S. Constitution and our nation's history.
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This sort of reform is necessary in order to try and change an unequal society; O'Connor's ruling is an affront to equal rights.
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World leaders reacted to condemn the alleged chemical attack with Trump describing it as an "affront to humanity " which crossed "many, many lines".
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But some view the "tampon tax" as an affront to women, who have little choice but to bear the burden of the levy.
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But Khalil claims the biggest affront to her project and the turtles these days is construction work that can encroach on the beach.
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Alito's affront was especially egregious since he expressed his dissent at a state occasion in front of cameras for the world to see.
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His elusiveness was an affront to the state, made all the more humiliating by the celebrity status he and his family had acquired.
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The BJP argues there is no such thing as a Hindu terrorist, and portrays charges against her as an affront to all Hindus.
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" Trump also described the attack as "an affront to humanity" and said that "these heinous attacks by the Assad regime cannot be tolerated.
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" From the NYT: "His supporters contend that removing the country's most popular presidential candidate from the ballot would be an affront to democracy.
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"This is a direct affront to the Second Amendment and puts all attendees at risk," the petition, authored by user the Hyperationalist, says.
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"It is an affront to the court and must be met with a deterrent sentence," the three judges said in a written summary.
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That accusation is dismissed in Madrid as yet another affront by politicians who have repeatedly flouted court rulings in their drive toward independence.
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Snoop Dogg went off on the Oscars ... not just calling for a boycott, but saying it's a personal affront to all African Americans.
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As a result, some experts say, even being forced to obtain an official identity card can seem like an affront to some Tibetans.
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The United Nations called the pardon an "affront to victims" and another example of Sri Lanka's failure to hold war criminals to account.
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Any gun control proposal was not just public policy — it was an affront to your lifestyle and values, to your status in society.
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The mistreatment of children seeking refuge within our borders is a moral outrage and an affront to the teachings of every major religion.
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The company requested rugs in neutrals with blown-up, simplified patterns, which felt, at first, like an affront to her traditional design practices.
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Critics said the clip was an affront to the Black Lives Matter movement's protests against police brutality, and Pepsi apologized for the advertisement.
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Fitting, then, that the event took place in Las Vegas; staging it anywhere else would have been an affront to the mercenary gods.
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The sentence was viewed by fellow authors, journalists, and human rights activists as an affront to freedom of expression and his lawyers appealed.
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The killing may have been taken as an affront by Beijing because the victim had lived in Macau, a Chinese special administrative region.
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Footage of this heinous affront to good dogs everywhere was captured on CCTV, released by the RSPCA around Christmas, and quickly went viral.
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Ms. Harris said Mr. Trump's efforts to curb immigration was an affront to her son, who crossed the border illegally as a child.
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Kelly has a tendency, at least in public, to treat criticism as a personal affront to the people working to keep America safe.
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I mean I know what it is: it was talking about backmasking and the devil and Dead Kennedys being an affront to the family.
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In what would become a pattern, Trump appeared to take the report as an affront to his victory rather than a national security concern.
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Why does a letter like this have to focus on discounting the impact of black women, that this is an affront on black women?
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"For African-Americans in Boston, Faneuil Hall stands as an affront to their civic sensibilities," he said in a letter to Mayor Marty Walsh.
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To be handed such a privilege and to produce such unmetered unoriginality is an insult to the position and an affront to the audience.
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Such an affront to the parameters of Scandal became increasingly annoying, even when Jake became the all-powerful Command, or Olivia took the title.
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"We are removing garbage in various locations and they understood this as an affront," Júlio César Reis, the head of Terracap, said by phone.
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But on American television, even in 2019, full frontal male nudity — especially the kind that Euphoria so brazenly portrays — still feels like an affront.
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As North Korea's closest neighbor, China has repeatedly said it views increased U.S. military presence in the region as an affront to its security.
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We live in a moment where being called racist is perceived as an affront on equal footing with the racism people of color experiences.
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He said bogus claims were an affront to those like his friend, a former Korean War Marine who lost a leg and an eye.
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To some, the naked red cup, unadorned with symbols like holly or snowflakes, is an affront against the Christian faith, a cut against Christianity.
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Newsom's and Grisham's actions are a fresh, if symbolic, affront to President Donald Trump's description of an immigration crisis on the nation's southern border.
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It thus stands to reason that, as a matter of principle, Judge Barry considers her brother's efforts to delegitimize Gonzalo Curiel a professional affront.
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They're completely handmade and the work put into every detail – from the case to the aliens – is a direct affront to today's disposable society.
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The ABC reports that its move to publish the files from the breach has been criticized as an affront to the interests of Australia.
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"It is an affront to scientific integrity to keep 'confidential' a scientific process that directly influences policy and individual taxpayers," Smith and Biggs wrote.
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As he considered whether to answer Trump's latest affront to the judiciary on Tuesday, Roberts no doubt weighed how much he might provoke Trump.
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Time and time again, the TSA fails to accomplish its mission while its screening practices continue to be an affront to our civil liberties.
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It is certainly a form of expression that we would want to allow to those (Jews, gays) for whom swastikas are an especial affront.
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"This is an affront to the sanctity of life, it is inhumane, and the Hispanic community will stand for it no longer," he said.
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The regime is still an affront to human freedom, but I take your point — and I realize you're not defending the North Korean system.
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But it will be a capstone to their disgrace if they allow this particular Trumpian affront to stand after all the votes are counted.
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War of words Trump called the attack on innocent civilians an "affront to humanity," saying it had changed his views on Syria and Assad.
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In particular, the "failure" to find physics beyond the Higgs boson at the LHC is an affront to something more philosophical and, well, old.
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Meanwhile, any attempt by a foreign nation to draw attention to the human rights abuses is treated as an affront to the kingdom's sovereignty.
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If he was murdered inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on the orders of the Saudi government, the affront to American values is clear.
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It also remained unclear how the caravan, still more than 900 miles away from the Texas border, was an affront to United States sovereignty.
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For those who are trapped in despair, spring can feel like an affront, the gulf between outer and inner worlds too wide to cross.
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Beyond that, political reporters tend not to view it as an interesting campaign tactic, but instead as a kind of affront to American democracy.
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This is a staggering affront to religious liberty, with Chinese officials reportedly forcing Muslims to violate their faith by eating pork and drinking alcohol.
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In Ramallah, the seat of Abbas's Palestinian Authority, the leader's religious affairs adviser said Trump's stance was an affront to Islam and Christianity alike.
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But characteristically, the English news media interpreted the situation as a kind of national affront disproportionately affecting its own players — and its own reporters.
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But in the Senate, the Democrats openly attacked Judge Carswell's nomination; one declared that his "incredibly undistinguished" career was an "affront" to the court.
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Omar called Netanyahu's decision an "affront" and said it was an attempt to limit public knowledge about Israeli occupation in the West Bank. Rep.
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A group of Republican lawmakers went a step further, calling the episode an "affront to the United States" and calling for Turkey to apologize.
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Sweden prides itself on its commitment to helping the most vulnerable, and the illness was seen as an affront to the country's national character.
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"The diversity of our movement is our greatest strength, and Senator Kirk's remarks were an affront to our most fundamental values," the statement read.
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Certainly, Mr. Bloomberg has never debated anyone quite like Mr. Sanders, whose allies consider Mr. Bloomberg's very biography an affront to people-powered democracy.
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After the vote, he tweeted a video meme suggesting he could remain in office for decades to come, a joking affront to his rivals.
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Mr. Trump's cavalier attitude toward this carefully designed system is an affront to the people who have spent their careers respecting and protecting it.
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But one of the first of the new products feels to some like an affront: Acquired through a partnership with Japanese company Shionogi Inc.
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Second, Trump — despite his harsh rhetoric about how Assad's "heinous" chemical attack was an "affront to humanity" — ultimately ordered an extremely limited military operation.
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One member of the group, however, appeared to interpret the tree litter as some kind of personal affront to the area's community of barefoot runners.
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INGRAHAM: She didn&apost like the fact that Ivanka Trump was actually holding up her infant son, like that was an affront to Samantha Bee.
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"I regret this mistake, and want to assure you that it was not intended as an affront to your government or the people of Poland."
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It is, to some, an affront to their right to live in a world without violence and war, for which they blame religion almost entirely.
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Whatever happens next will be an affront to anyone who's got their heart set on winning an election that's been over for almost three years.
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Reports last week suggested the government was preparing to ignore any rulings by the World Trade Organization it sees as an affront to U.S. sovereignty.
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But the combination of her Black Lives Matter endorsement with digressions that seemed an affront to abortion opponents worried some evangelical writers — and InterVarsity supporters.
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For several members, including Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam, a chief concern is for a revived club not to be seen as an affront to China.
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Yet, its removal had irked conservative politicians in both the US and the UK who read the act as an affront to the countries' relationship.
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Having people and businesses operate outside the rules, whether by dodging taxes or avoiding regulations, is an affront to the idea of a fair society.
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It's almost as if they take the notion of a "mozzarella" made out of soy or a palm-oil-based "Cheddar" as a personal affront.
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For Illeana Douglas, an actress and one of the women who accused Moonves of sexual misconduct, Moonves' involvement in the group felt like an affront.
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They also pose one of the greatest security challenges for U.S. President Donald Trump, who portrayed the latest missile test as an affront to China.
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The source of her fury was her notion that her computer's operating system had been designed idiotically as some sort of personal affront to her.
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During that time, Zahran started criticizing the practice of asking God for help, for instance, arguing that such pleas were an affront to pure Islam.
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He stands opposed to the struggles of self-improvement because it's an affront to the qualities that enable his simpler worldview (when we give up).
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"Your staff's blatant violation of these rights on American soil is an affront to those freedoms, and reflects poorly on your government," the pair added.
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All of The Lonely Island's films have failed at the box office before being appreciated, but the biggest affront is Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.
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It was a greeting of kindred souls, but it was also, if not an outright affront, at least a bold statement within the military machine.
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That gesture communicates so much about her disbelief that this affront has actually happened, and her emotional distance from those at the center of it.
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They took issue with the tech company's business ties to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which they said was an affront to Queens' significant immigrant population.
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It is also an affront to the values of compassion, generosity and leadership that the State Department says the resettlement program is intended to promote.
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They took issue with the tech company's business ties to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which they said was an affront to Queens' significant immigrant population.
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But the naturists see this as nothing less than an affront to their rights, and a step back towards a prudish, Victorian way of thinking.
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Interfering with the disease in such a fashion could be seen as an affront to god himself, who had surely created smallpox with divine intent.
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"That seems to have been taken by Xi Jinping as an affront," said Michael Clarke, a scholar at the Australian National University who studies Xinjiang.
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"Every abuse committed against an O.F.W. is an affront against us, as a sovereign nation," Mr. Duterte said, using an abbreviation for overseas Filipino worker.
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Now when I see a coat on the floor, I try to remind myself to see only a coat, not an affront to my authority.
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But for the producer or theater owner to do so is an affront to the artist's right to be heard unfettered and free from prejudice.
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Mr. Khashoggi was a friend of the president and many of his close advisers, and Mr. Erdogan has taken his killing as a personal affront.
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If you meet a monarch and do not curtsy, know that royalists might see this as a direct affront, especially when it involves the queen.
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There seemed to be a coordinated effort among the four witnesses; their responses were an affront to the American public they are supposed to represent.
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They are convinced that any difference of opinion on matters they hold dear isn't simply an error of reasoning but an affront to human decency.
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But that outcome seemed less an affront to the Senate culture than payback for, and a natural progression from, the Democrats' 2013 decision on nominations.
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They took this rhetoric as a personal affront and were horrified by the hatred they saw on the faces of those who cheered his words.
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They are an affront to Mr. Soros and his family, who against the odds managed to survive one of the darkest moments in our history.
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He called the chemical weapons attack on Tuesday "an affront to humanity" during a press conference with King Abdullah of Jordan at the White House.
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China views any assertion of Taiwan's separateness from the mainland — like Ms. Tsai's call with Mr. Trump — as an affront to its claim of sovereignty.
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But Trump has slammed the probes as a "witch hunt" and an affront on his presidency by Democrats upset about his electoral victory in November.
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Instead of eradicating the emotional pain the affront caused, a poorly worded apology can result in lasting anger and antagonism, and undermine an important relationship.
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To President Donald Trump, the House's vote on impeachment wasn't just an affront to him, but to the millions of Americans who voted for him.
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A group of Quebec filmmakers have recently come to his defense in an open letter that calls the protesters' efforts an affront to free speech.
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"The proposed contract revision that Petrobras presented to FUP and its unions is an affront to workers," FUP coordinator Jose Maria Rangel said in a statement.
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But he chooses to ignore the whole story, spreading the message that Catholics are under attack and taking criticism of the institution as a personal affront.
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"These monuments are an affront in a city whose elected officials preach tolerance and equity," the letter, which is included in full below, reads in part.
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Never mind the affront to latter-day educated tastes of a painting style so sugary that it imperils your mind's incisors; there's a more burning issue.
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But the cynic would be mistaken, according to recent research from Mexico, which suggests that this affront to liberty actually impacts consumption in a positive way.
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This is not just an affront to Tamils, whose complaints about discrimination lay at the root of a 26-year civil war that ended in 2009.
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Apple was targeted in the latest protest by virtue of its country of origin, which in turn was regarded as the root of a perceived affront.
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However, the president's regulation efforts were interpreted by some in the law enforcement community as an ongoing personal affront to cops, rather than a commonsense necessity.
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However, to say she has New York City's ''second-toughest job,'' as the cover line for the story states, is an affront to countless New Yorkers.
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Religious groups have condemned the company behind the body transfers, saying that the technology is immoral, and that lab-grown bodies and clones are an affront.
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Hekmatyar's return "will compound the culture of impunity", Human Rights Watch researcher Patricia Gossman said of the deal, calling it an "affront" to victims of abuses.
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Those on the left see the Princess Culture as an affront to feminism, while those on the right (like me) can see it as un-American.
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Based on the announcement and gameplay videos it has shown, it looks to be a travesty, an affront to everything that made the series so fun.
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Hillary Clinton issued a statement congratulating law enforcement "for detecting and disrupting a highly disturbing terror plot" that she said was an affront to all Americans.
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The United Nations refugee agency has called the proposed legislation an affront to refugees' dignity and said it would send a worrying signal to other countries.
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" House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi tweeted directly at the President about his remarks, writing: "Repeat after me, @realDonaldTrump: white supremacy is an affront to American values.
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We will not affront the nostrils of fellow passengers Don't be the smelly passenger, and don't be the passenger who brings smelly food on the plane.
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Every controversial Supreme Court decision is assailed by its critics as an affront to the Constitution, even as its supporters hail a victory for constitutional rights.
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It's also such an affront on history, because we've always accepted people into tribes; we've always let people marry into tribes or adopted children into tribes.
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To have such a woman portrayed by someone in blackface is such an affront that even before the film's release there are calls to boycott it.
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Republicans have largely rallied around the pick and praised Kavanaugh's credentials, while Democrats have framed his nomination as an affront to reproductive and health-care rights.
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Beyond his affront to our social values, most apparent in his xenophobia and hostility to empowered women, Trump represents a potentially seismic economic disruption for elites.
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Vitter's failure to endorse the court's decision is not simply an affront to civil rights, but to the legacy of Brown and the rule of law.
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Canadian Prime Minister said that the tariffs, announced Thursday by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, are an affront to the security partnership between the U.S. and Canada.
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The Google co-founder Sergey Brin regarded the attack on his company's systems as a personal affront and responded by making security a top corporate priority.
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Many feel the country's culture and values are under attack and see the burkini as a sign of women's oppression and an affront to French secularism.
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The opposition fears the assembly will remove any checks that remain on the president's powers and critics globally have condemned it as an affront to democracy.
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She said the collection of works, previously shown at galleries in Cluj and Timisoara over the past year, was often misinterpreted as an affront to Brancusi.
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Clinton's dual loyalties, longstanding and verified or not, may be an affront to baseball purists, who believe that a true fan can have only one team.
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The arena's rules forbid firearms or other weapons, which the petition says is a "direct affront" to the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment right to bear arms.
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Trudeau responded on Thursday by calling the tariffs an affront to the longstanding security partnership between Canada and the United States, and Canada announced retaliatory steps.
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Netanyahu's 2015 speech to Congress opposing the Iran deal, billed as an affront to the Obama administration, turned out to be an inspiration for Israel's neighbors.
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According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a doctrinal text approved by Pope John Paul II in 1992, suicide is an affront to God's love.
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Investigators said they were also able to thwart an attempted killing in Harlem that stemmed from an affront against the mother of a jailed gang member.
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Or, others said, Mr. Xi may have belatedly concluded that changes to Chinese laws demanded by the United States would be an affront to national honor.
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I used to take his faults personally; his dirty clothes on the floor were an affront, a symbol of how he didn't care enough about me.
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But DreamHost said that the ruling was an affront to privacy rights and that it would consider an appeal after reviewing a transcript of the hearing.
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Daniel was praising Eddie's use of color, its calculated affront to the eye, and something else he couldn't quite get, when abruptly he made a discovery.
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Whatever you think about the state of American border security, citizens need to recognize this emergency declaration for what it is—an affront to American democracy.
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British voters turned out largely for the Conservative Party because of its promise to proceed with Brexit, the ultimate affront to the status quo in Brussels.
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Padres 4, Mets 43 The Mets' game against the San Diego Padres on Thursday was primed to become an affront to the eyes of baseball purists.
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China feels that the protests in the Chinese territory, which at times have turned violent since they began in June, are an affront to its authority.
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And she saw, too, how the cutting of the grass might look like a deliberate affront, a contemptuous stroke of brute practicality against imagination and spirit.
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The chicken schnitzel on the sandwich is already a slight affront to Vietnamese culture, so the Big Mac sauce is no big deal, mum and dad.
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Cookie and Jamal agree that Hakeem should steer clear of the "clapback" record the world has expected in response to the latest affront from a rival.
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The Trump administration tried to shut down those inquiries, calling them an affront to the legacy of the fallen service member, Chief Petty Officer William Owens.
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The bureau is an affront to America's Madisonian tripartite constitutional system under which the people's body of Congress makes law and has power of the purse.
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That this decision to rob the Jews of one of their holiest cities, however, could be made 40 miles from Auschwitz is an affront to decency.
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The decision was considered such an affront to traditionalists that none less than the archbishop of York and Prime Minister Theresa May intervened to express dismay.
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"It is the most blatant example of an affront to decisional independence," said Judge Dana Leigh Marks, president emeritus of the National Association of Immigration Judges.
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Alvarado Munoz called last month's ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights a violation of Costa Rica's sovereignty and an affront to traditional values.
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Many proud Angelenos resented Kemp's comment as an affront against their city, which had led the league in attendance for four straight years to that point.
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"If a journalist in particular lost their life at the hands of violence, that's an affront to the free and independent press around the world," he added.
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Now, after Facebook's latest affront to user privacy, it's time for the feds to step in and drop the boom on the company, according to privacy advocates.
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"Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food," Bourdain added.
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From this perspective, the government's attempts to impose and elaborate a dress code are not just an affront to their freedom but further proof of male chauvinism.
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"Using the archaic Unlawful Associations Act to incarcerate journalists is an affront to democracy in Myanmar," the group's Asia Program Coordinator Steven Butler said in a statement.
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"To continue honoring Bill Cosby with this prestigious accolade would be an affront to women nationwide, particularly those who were victims of his horrific acts," Gosar said.
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The historically rare criticism by a sitting president was taken on Capitol Hill and Wall Street as an affront on the central bank's independence from political pressure.
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Mr. Beck was among the conservative figures to lend his name to a special issue of National Review, denouncing Mr. Trump's candidacy as an affront to conservativism.
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As people have pointed out, this isn't just contrary to basic ETA logic, it's also an affront to the world that George R.R. Martin has meticulously built.
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Violence in the name of hatred or religion, whether in Nice, Orlando, Istanbul, Tel Aviv, Chicago or Munich, is an affront to humanity and to every religion.
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In fact, the United States imposed sanctions on Russia for good reason: Putin's invasion of Ukraine was an illegal and unacceptable affront to international peace and security.
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Suburbanites saw these as an affront to why they fled the inner cities in the first place, and the Democrats paid with votes in 2012 and 85033.
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"His alleged actions are a betrayal of our nation's security and the American people and are an affront to his former intelligence community colleagues," Mr. Demers said.
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The results may have started out as an affront to mainstream taste, but by the turn of the century they were practically a primary expression of it.
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As a woman, as a physician who follows a code of patient-centered ethics, and as an abortion provider, it is an affront to all of us.
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"This is an affront to the party," Popular Force Secretary General Jose Chlimper told reporters in front of one of the party's offices as prosecutors worked inside.
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Continuing to deny the full range of transition-related treatment to transgender veterans is not just bad medicine, it is a discriminatory affront to our national values.
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The shuttle system simply can't keep up with the crush of people and the anemic monorail — an affront to public transit — is useless during the daytime rush.
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We've known for a while that Donald Trump orders his steaks well-done, a culinary affront for which he's been trolled at at least one campaign rally.
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In fact, they see others' right to free speech as an affront to their own, and in this case, one to be met with anger and hate.
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It is not just a bill that promotes questionable political or economic policies, it is an affront to basic democratic principles and the American way of life.
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" According to Vice, Biggs has said that gay marriage "is an affront to the millions of Americans who believe marriage is between a man and a woman.
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This is your ducking stool, hookers: how much danger and persecution can you take until you realise what you're doing is an affront to the moral order?
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But he still represented an affront to the principle that betrayal must never go unpunished: He was alive and living comfortably in a pleasant English cathedral town.
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" Marie Struthers, Amnesty International's director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said in a statement that the sentence "is an affront to human rights, reason and justice.
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The term institutional racism, which in French is called state racism, is seen by many as an affront to the colorblind ideal of a universalist French republic.
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A small but influential group of authors argued that the novel dealt insensitively with race and the legacy of slavery, and was an affront to nonwhite communities.
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While European nations view organizations like the International Criminal Court as an important check on dictators, Mr. Bolton and other American conservatives see it as an affront.
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That was taken as an affront by many in Germany, where traditions run deep and where ambassadors are viewed as guests who are expected to follow protocol.
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That's especially true of the border wall that has almost mystical significance in Trump country and is seen as an immoral affront to US values by opponents.
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"The idea of imposing steel or aluminum tariffs of any kind is an affront to economic freedom," said David McIntosh, president of the conservative Club for Growth.
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To kill communications systems upon which citizens, businesses, emergency personnel, and others depend is an affront on the global and open internet and likely exacerbates ongoing violence.
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"The idea of imposing steel or aluminum tariffs of any kind is an affront to economic freedom," Club for Growth President David McIntosh said in a statement.
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Campaigning ahead of next month's general election, Pablo Casado, the leader of the conservative Popular Party, described the Mexican demand as an affront to the Spanish people.
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If passed, this legislation would be one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the US and an affront to a woman's constitutional right to an abortion. Gov.
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The British government tried to end the relationship and refused to authorize a church wedding, while neighboring South Africa saw the Khama marriage as an affront to apartheid.
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Momentum for its removal has spurred a remarkably broad coalition in support of the long-standing demand from Black and Latinx Harlemites that this affront be removed. 503.
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"The administration's misguided insistence that a border wall must be built is an affront to the just demands of border communities to revitalize and not militarize our region."
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Reginald Grant Jr., another young black Obama-Romney voter, sees his success in the Marines as an affront to the notion that he could ever be an underdog.
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The radical feminist cult is actually behind the murders that were credited to the Zodiac Killer, and in a fascinating twist, this misrepresentation is also a sexist affront.
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"And you would not think that an affront to the gay community?" he asked Solicitor General Noel Francisco, a lawyer for the Trump administration, which has backed Phillips.
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This was an affront to his boss, Angela Merkel, the chancellor, who had condemned the anti-migrant violence in Chemnitz and whose refugee policy he openly disagrees with.
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"I say this unequivocally, with sincere regret: the video is tasteless and an affront to the men and women who lost their lives on 9/11," he wrote.
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Privacy advocates say it allows the NSA and other intelligence agencies to grab data belonging to Americans in a way that represents an affront to the U.S. Constitution.
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Pablo Casado, the leader of the conservative opposition, said that AMLO's call was "a real affront to Spain", which should celebrate its historical role in Mexico "with pride".
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First of all, it's an affront to the very ideals of the all-volunteer force, the force we both joined and served in for a combined 68 years.
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Trump's presidency is an affront to so many basic values—gender equality, LGBT rights, anti-racist and anti-religious discrimination—that it's hard to know where to start.
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The former governor's passion on the topic has not only become the final selling point in his stump speech, but it's also become his latest affront against Trump.
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Clinton cast Trump as a careless businessman, a direct affront at his campaign's selling point that he knows how to fix the country because of his business acumen.
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Corker said such an attempt would be "a direct affront to the American people and seeks to undermine Congress' appropriate role" in a March 2015 letter to Obama.
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The administration's proposed rule is an affront to workers who have spent years organizing to improve their jobs and an attack on their right to support a union.
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In their minds, what Miller was accused of doing was an affront to a sport for which many of them spend 20 or 30 hours a week training.
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The sight of terrorists, years later, committing murder while wearing masks copied from one of her music videos may be an affront to her image, but so what?
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The unifying sentiment across nearly all criticism of Birthright is that the program's existence is an affront to Palestinians and spreads misinformation about how Israel came to be.
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Whether you see him as an affront to hip-hop's legacy or a testament to the genre's vitality likely says more about you than it does about Yachty.
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"This is a direct affront to the Second Amendment and puts all attendees at risk," said the petition, which had gathered more than 50,000 signatures by Tuesday morning.
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But for the defenders of the rice tart, the inspections undertaken by the Agency are no less than another affront to the diversity of the local culinary heritage.
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Using images of sanctified princess at a state-owned theater was an affront to the regime, but tired or careless, the censors choose to ignore this small detail.
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The Kingdom views the Canadian position as an affront to the Kingdom that requires a sharp response to prevent any party from attempting to meddle with Saudi sovereignty.
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Some black leaders saw a recent effort to scale back services at Nashville General Hospital, which is city-funded and on the city's north side, as an affront.
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Obstruction of an investigation is not only criminal conduct, but also an affront to our system of government and the faith that the American people have in it.
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Having vowed during his campaign to stop illegal immigration, the president views the increasing flow of migrants as a personal affront and a threat to his political brand.
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Not Danou's version, but blender chocolate mousse, which is infinitely more reliable, and which would be an affront to traditional chocolate mousse, if it didn't work so well.
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In addition to being an affront to tribes and Native groups who have deep spiritual ties to the land, the decision completely ignores the opinion of the public.
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They were white suburban women who would rather vote for a man who bragged about sexual assault than a woman who seemed an affront to who they were.
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But for The Navy—Rihanna's most diehard fans—the fact that there is no upcoming album confirmed or even a single to speak of is an incredible affront.
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The truth is that allowing him to stay in power would be an affront to the will of Bolivian voters and a step on the road to autocracy.
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" Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) doubled down, calling the actions a "violent attack on a peaceful demonstration" that "is an affront to D.C. values and our rights as Americans.
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To have a blanket policy to only respond to people who can vote for them is an outrage and an affront to all Americans including those from Maine.
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Trump's criticism of Powell is historically rare, and was taken by many on Capitol Hill and Wall Street as an affront on the bank's independence from political pressure.
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"This is an affront to the law that regulates national parks in Chile," Ibanez, a member of Chile's far-left Convergencia Social party, said in a telephone interview.
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The cleric denied playing any role in the attempted coup, which he called an affront to democracy, and on Sunday told reporters he believed Erdogan had staged the putsch.
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Governments from Spain to Canada to Argentina and Peru joined Washington in denouncing the election, which was boycotted by the opposition and widely seen as an affront to democracy.
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It was also an affront to a free and independent press, and the United States is determined to hold all of those accountable who are responsible for that murder.
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He tells me that prior to attending a play party, the thought of watching his partner have sex with someone other than him was an affront to his manhood.
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His capricious and punitive ways were an affront to liberty and treating British subjects who happened to live in places other than Britain as lesser citizens was also wrong.
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Hill's lawyer, Bill James, told the court on Monday that Frank Hill's porn viewing was a "personal affront to [Patricia Hill] and her god," the Pine Bluff Commercial reported.
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Flash-forward a couple of centuries, and Madame would as likely have been skewered, her frame regarded as an aesthetic, and perhaps even a moral, affront to polite society.
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The UNHCR said on Thursday Danish immigration policy changes were "a deeply concerning response to humanitarian needs" and that taking away refugees' possessions was "an affront to their dignity".
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Although America's list was drawn up in response to China's alleged theft of American firms' intellectual property, Mr Trump regards the trade deficit with China as a separate affront.
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The Uncanny Valley-ization of Sailor Jack and his dog Bingo in the logo is awful enough, but taking the box away is an affront to baseball fans everywhere.
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I mean, he said a few things about -- look, I take a little affront, umbrage, when I say -- I get the right from Herbalife to buy up to 153%.
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It is only a matter of time before some fresh affront, probably to do with China's claims in the South China Sea, strains those old fraternal ties still further.
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But the bill that Congress passed last week represents both a symbolic affront to Saudi Arabia (and other nations) and a toothless vehicle for any actual recovery against them.
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This risk is particularly high in America, where the idea of paying for medicines on the basis of their actual performance is seen as an affront to patient choice.
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Kim Hyun-chong, Moon's deputy national security adviser, criticised Tokyo as an obstacle to the South's effort to build peace with North Korea, calling Japan's step a "public affront".
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Kim Hyun-chong, the senior national security adviser, criticised Tokyo as an obstacle to the South's effort to build peace with North Korea, calling Japan's step a "public affront".
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But the president clearly takes extra pleasure campaigning in battleground states against Republicans who didn't consider Trump an affront to the conscience until the GOP nominee's poll numbers tanked.
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Because much of Simone's work centered on her marginalized treatment as a dark-skinned black woman in America, fans said the casting choice was an affront to her legacy.
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These examples are Americans behaving badly, but at least they, unlike what happened outside the Turkish embassy are not a disgusting affront to our cherished liberties and our sovereignty.
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Kessler: 'We're going to have bigger events' The previous two rallies were "seen as an affront to the liberal population of this city and of the country," Kessler said.
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Canceling briefings would be an outrageous affront to the press' role in American democracy, and it's shameful that Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Friday wouldn't walk back Trump's suggestion.
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Kim Hyun-chong, Moon's deputy national security adviser, criticized Tokyo as an obstacle to the South's effort to build peace with North Korea, calling Japan's step a "public affront".
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It also felt like a basic affront to some of the reasons why my husband loves me, like my ambition and individualism and my constant, probably-annoying question-asking.
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It was also an affront to a free and independent press and the United States is determined to hold all of those accountable who are responsible for that murder.
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But even some of Bolsonaro's allies in Congress, where the Senate has still to confirm the appointment, see the choice as an unprecedented affront to Brazil's experienced diplomatic corps.
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But few people anticipated the latest affront — millions of mosquito-like insects, their numbers supercharged by nutritious algae blooming profusely along the banks of the polluted Yamuna River nearby.
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That would amount to an embarrassing affront to Mr. Trump and make him the first Republican nominee in recent times to suffer such significant defections in the nominating vote.
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After the images surfaced, Trump called the chemical attack "an affront to humanity" and subsequently approved a missile strike on the Syrian airfield that had launched the chemical weapons.
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Some took the ambassador's comments as an affront to Merkel's government: She leads a center-right party that has been on the defensive against a growing far-right movement.
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" The lawsuit states that Trump's actions are "an affront to the rule of law: to our constitutional system, under which Congress enacts laws and the President faithfully implements them.
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Anything short of a simultaneous redesign of the $20 bill giving women a place of their own in the all-male pantheon of our paper money is an affront.
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This was an affront to Apple's devout followers, sure, but that didn't stop the company from selling more than 200 million iPhones last year at around $600 a pop.
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Governments from Spain to Canada to Argentina and Peru joined Washington in denouncing the vote, which was boycotted by the opposition and widely seen as an affront to democracy.
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Right-wing Catholics, those who think allowing gay members of the faith to worship with dignity is an affront to God, have just taken their best shot at Francis.
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He insulted Mexican immigrants and threatened to build a border wall — an affront not just to America's second-largest trading partner but also to the rest of the hemisphere.
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This is a fact that Madeline, the ringmaster of the "let's say he slipped" circus, takes as a personal affront — the same way she takes pretty much everything else.
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But as 2020 approaches, the issue will become more charged, and with every perceived Republican affront, the Democratic base will grow more impatient for its team to play hardball.
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"This law is an affront to the dignity and health of Georgians," the lawsuit, which was filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of the plaintiffs, said.
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Instead, Mr. Imamoglu and the opposition made the choice to compete in a new election, scheduled for June 23, even as they denounced it an affront to democratic principles.
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"The Articles of Impeachment now before the Senate are an affront to the Constitution and to our democratic institutions," the President's lawyers wrote in opening sentences of the document.
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Pop-punk is user-friendly, designed not to affront listeners but to gratify them; some traditionalist punks consider it at best a guilty pleasure and at worst an abomination.
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Adding to the residents' sense of affront, it is to be razed to make way for the construction of a new community, Hiran, planned mainly for observant Jewish inhabitants.
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Vladislav Belov, head of the German Studies Center at the Institute of Europe in Moscow, said Mr. Putin took Ms. Merkel's leading role in sanctions as a personal affront.
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The ironic part of this baffling, affront of a trip, is that Trump's motorcade was 10-85033 minutes away from a neighborhood that was in dire need of aid.
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"ICE's arrest of Mr. Villavicencio while he was doing his job was an outrageous affront to our New York values and raised serious concerns of ethnic profiling," Cuomo said.
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Moreover, in its eagerness to rule where terms are unclear, and in the American government's willingness to change its laws in response, they feel an affront to America's sovereignty.
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In some areas of Capitol Hill and Wall Street, the president's remarks, during a CNBC interview, were taken as an affront on the central bank's independence from political pressure.
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The unwillingness of the attorney general of the United States, and his boss, to see this is an affront to the rule of law that should concern us all.
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It's possible that "Quiet Until the Thaw" may strike some readers as a similar affront, a misguided exercise in appropriation by an author who isn't remotely like her subjects.
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Anything less would be unjust—a final affront to the families of Seau and so many others, and a high-priced mockery of both medical science and American jurisprudence.
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But to assist the prosecution in digging that hole deeper is an affront to the principles of justice that underlie a defense attorney's vital role in the adversarial system.
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This is an affront to the sport he's dedicated his professional career to overseeing and he wants to continue the match in front of an increasingly agitated paying crowd.
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There are a lot of current US immigration policies that run afoul of the Trump administration's ideas of merit, but TPS might be the biggest affront to their vision.
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Such scenes suggest that the film is partly intended as a deliberate affront to Vladimir V. Putin's Russia, where Eisenstein is celebrated as a cultural deity, and homosexuality officially despised.
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It's a good reminder of what an affront to the eyes that operating system was, but maybe Windows 95 Mobile might be just the thing to curb your smartphone addiction.
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Aside from the risks of boosting the blackmarket trade in unlicensed booze, turning Indonesia dry would be seen by many as an affront to the cultural diversity of the archipelago.
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Others argue that public expressions of religious beliefs are an affront to secularism, and that "conspicuous" religious symbols, including Christian crucifixes and Jewish kippahs, should be worn only in private.
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"Arabs, for example, are thought of as camel-riding, terroristic, hook-nosed, venal lechers whose undeserved wealth is an affront to real civilization," Said wrote in his 1978 book Orientalism.
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"The administration's current family separation policy is an affront to the decency of the American people, and contrary to principles and values upon which our nation was founded," McCain tweeted.
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Black and POC wins are an affront to similar status quos of alleged hate crime hoaxes, hate mongering, and the inbred morons that weaponize them to ignore issues of race.
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"This Lula-centered farce was trumped up as an affront to the democratic state and intelligence of Brazilian citizens," one of Lula's lawyers, Cristiano Zanin, told reporters in Sao Paulo.
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It's the holiday season, so I'm trying to be forgiving, but also this is an affront to both me and Santa and possibly God, though I cannot speak for Him.
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Another change of heart by the airport would not simply be an affront to the infrastructure ministry, it would be a public act of defiance against the country's top leaders.
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Opposing a Kavanaugh confirmation before even hearing out the nominee is an affront to our country's sacred democratic process and the deference a judge with an undeniably accomplished career deserves.
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Torrent had traveled from the Catalan capital, Barcelona, to attend the trial in Madrid this week, and told CNBC that the judicial process was an affront to freedom of speech.
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One of the tracks, "Mystery of Love," now has a music video—and, as it would be an affront if it depicted anything else, it features moments from the film.
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Each and every one is an affront to our human dignity, our basic freedoms and our common call to care for, not abuse, those who are vulnerable and in need.
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Thornberry is correct that the military's devaluing of its own wartime fund is reprehensible, an affront to our service members who really do need a flexible account of their own.
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Opponents of the program said it allows the NSA and other intelligence agencies to grab data belonging to Americans in a way that represents an affront to the U.S. Constitution.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's pro-government constituent assembly on Saturday unanimously decided to remove dissident state prosecutor Luisa Ortega from her job, in what critics called a blatant affront to democracy.
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Indeed, some cyber-libertarians are arguing that whereas the heist was not a crime, altering digital ledgers to retrieve the lost ether would be an affront to the whole project.
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Vice President Pence on Tuesday called Russia out for meddling in the 2016 presidential election, describing foreign interference efforts as an "affront to our democracy" that will not be tolerated.
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Whether willfully or not, such a strategy is not just an affront to basic democratic principles, it would also serve to disenfranchise the growth demographics powering the modern Democratic Party.
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As she returned over the next two and a half years, she watched the figure slowly disappear behind construction, a particular affront in a neighborhood blazed by its art galleries.
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"The administration's current family separation policy is an affront to the decency of the American people, and contrary to principles and values upon which our nation was founded," tweeted Sen.
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A fiscal control board designed to create a new government "of the hedge funds, by the hedge funds, and for the hedge funds," is an affront to basic democratic principles.
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Goldsteyn's heinous act is an affront to common decency, insults my service and the service of all my brothers and sisters who wear the uniform, and should be investigated fully.
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Stopping the presumptive nominee at the convention — one who won 37 states and has an indisputable majority of delegates — would be an extraordinary affront and seems improbable at this point.
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She saw rampant infant mortality; the infant mortality rate was close to 40 percent in the slums of New York, and she considered this an affront to decency and civilization.
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Never one to sit still for an affront, Trump fired a spitball back by yanking the Air Force jet that was to fly the speaker and a congressional delegation overseas.
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"His release on parole is a painful affront to the families of every police officer who has sacrificed his or her life in the line of duty," Mr. Lynch said.
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The difference here is that Mr. Trump seemed unapologetic about this state of affairs with only a passing nod to the affront to our values that Mr. Khashoggi's murder represents.
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" Referring to the House GOP leader, King said, "Kevin McCarthy made a huge mistake, it is an obscene injustice, and it's an affront to Iowans and everybody in this country.
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In contrast to President Obama's farewell speech on Tuesday evening, Mr. Trump's statements and answers to reporters' questions were an affront to the intelligence and the dignity of all Americans.
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The truth is, there is only a small number of entirely "sympathetic" people in prisons who could be released without any scruples by the public or affront to their victims.
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Faced with accusations of financial impropriety and an affront to his authority, Mr. Trump turned to Michael D. Cohen, a former personal injury lawyer who helped run a taxi fleet.
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It would help increase carbon emissions, and it's a new contract with a fossil fuel company—a stark affront to the first two asks of the tech worker climate organizers.
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Moderators are now allowed to delete deadnaming, misgendering, and negative generalizations—but also terms such as "cis" and "TERF," on the basis that they may be an "affront" to feminists.
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Sources with first-hand knowledge tell us, Caitlyn's latest stunt -- parading around Malibu wearing a "Make America Great Again" cap is an affront to the community she claims to champion.
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Later that year, Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy and held 52 Americans for 444 days - an affront to U.S. pride that still colors how Iran is viewed from Washington.
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Crase is right when he opens his "Afterword" with: The appearance in print of the selected poems of Donald Britton is an affront to cynicism and a triumph over fate.
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Mr. McConnell's strategic affront — announcing just hours after Justice Scalia's death that he would refuse to even consider a replacement — was presaged by other Republican moves over the last two years.
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The requirement to produce objective evidence might be seen by some as an affront to our dignity, but it justifies our claims without relying on our feelings or self-declared identities.
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"North Korea's ballistic and nuclear tests are an affront to the United Nations Security Council," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in Tokyo, where he met Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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While legalizing assisted death has been celebrated by civil liberties advocates, many religious leaders and groups representing people with disabilities have decried the entire practice as an affront to human dignity.
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The Wilhelm Franke avatar, besides being an affront to the real-life man, is the exact opposite of whatever restraint DICE might have been going for with their in-game Nazis.
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Omar, a first-term congresswoman from Minnesota, put out a statement Thursday afternoon calling the situation "an affront" but "not a surprise" given the relationship between Netanyahu and President Donald Trump.
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People who work for the government in Sudan usually hide the fact they do from their friends and families, making their exposure that much more of an affront to their authority.
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Saying that ICE saves lives, then, is an affront to the people who are still waiting to see their children again, and to those who may never see their families again.
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At the close of the premiere, the VC arrives to criticize Richard's most recent act of vengeance, acquiring companies Sliceline and Optimoji and subsequently crushing their CEOs over a business affront.
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These voters already have opportunities to vote in regular elections that are defined by the most important issues of the day, making referendums both redundant and an affront to representative democracy.
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In his meetings with CEDAW opponents, Abdulbari says, he is often told that his effort to bring Sudan into conformity with international human rights standards is an affront to Sudanese culture.
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Worse yet, this cut is an affront to seniors in the Medicare program who expect, have paid for, and deserve that expertise and time in caring for their complex medical conditions.
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Chicago has reputation as one of the worst run cities in the nation, which is one of the main reasons for this affront to taxpayers of all ages who live there.
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Totalitarian governments often want to censor and silence pastors, and that's exactly what the mayor of Houston, she's in that company, when she makes this type of affront on religious liberty.
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For starters, they believe that a job is a basic right — guaranteed in the preamble to their Constitution — and that making it easier to fire people is an affront to that.
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"In 1936 the crowd was against Jesse Owens," he said of the black American sprinter whose four gold medals in Berlin were an affront to the Nazi ideology of racial superiority.
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Trump's interview published Thursday amounted to a stunning diplomatic affront for a visiting US president, emerging while Trump was still at a gala dinner May threw in honor of his visit.
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No greater affront to intelligent voters of good will and good heart could be inflicted on us than the anointing of the outrageously unqualified Donald Trump as the party's standard-bearer.
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It would be easy to dismiss this novel, which comes bearing high praise from British reviewers, as an affront to good taste, but that would be to play into its hands.
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The company's owner, Thomas Rost, is a devout Christian whose life's work stems from his religious beliefs, including that shunning one's biological sex is an affront to God, the judge wrote.
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Like any assault on our nation's immigrants, this Muslim ban is an affront to America's spirit of inclusivity and the dignity of those who rely on immigrant doctors for their care.
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Still, representatives from rival parties in Parliament said that the visit, which lasted three hours and did not include a face-to-face meeting with Mr. Mahdi, was an arrogant affront.
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For these reasons it is clear: Michael Cohen did not deserve the leniency he got; his sentence of 36 months is an affront to all Americans and our system of justice.
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Some of the incidents have been picked up by conservative news sites, which have framed them around the issue of schools banning pro-abstinence clothing in an affront to Christian values.
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Before I specialized in palliative care, I thought the sheer vitality of nature might be an affront to patients so close to the end of life — a kind of impudent abundance.
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The remarks in Istanbul by the president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, underscored his view of the indictments as another affront in an increasingly strained relationship with the United States, a NATO ally.
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For Mr. Rosenstein, Mr. Comey's unusual decision to go public last July with his conclusions in the Clinton investigation was deeply troubling, almost to the point of being a personal affront.
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It is a rare affront to an automaker by its dealers, who tend to be wary of taking legal action for fear of tarnishing the brands on which their sales depend.
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His inferiors' insolence was more painful than the loss of his land, because it was a direct affront to his dignity and the position he had always held in this world.
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On the second day of arguments in the third presidential impeachment trial in American history, Democrats sought to make the case that Mr. Trump's actions were an affront to the Constitution.
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In a memorable exchange with reporters in August 2017, Trump actually thanked Putin for expelling U.S. diplomats from Russia, a move seen by experts as an affront to the United States.
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Some saw the memo as a direct affront to Kushner, who has had access to highly classified information for over a year but still does not have a permanent security clearance.
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Back to Russia After his jabs at Warren and Daniels, Trump moved on to a more familiar affront, the Russia investigation and its various tangled threads that have caused him heartburn.
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This new legislation, as with similar legislation introduced in 2008, 2009, 85033 and 2013, is a blatant attempt to limit abortion access and is an affront to Black and Asian women.
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I've been saving our kitchen scraps in a covered trash bin and taking them to the farmer's market weekly for composting, but I find the odors and fruit flies an affront.
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Biden seizes on Trump's love for foreign strongmen and disdain for traditional US values to paint him as dangerously unfit for the presidency and an affront to the very idea of America.
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"If a journalist in particular lost their life at the hands of violence, that's an affront to the free and independent press around the world, and there will be consequences," Pence added.
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Sunday's march was largely incident-free, although around 200 people protested, variously calling it an affront to traditional values and to soldiers fighting pro-Russian separatist rebels in the eastern Donbass region.
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Social conservatives say the U.S. Supreme Court overstepped its bounds in legalizing gay marriage and have tried to fight the ruling by saying it is an affront to constitutionally protected religious liberty.
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The president of the National Smokers Alliance wrote, in a letter to the Postmaster General, that the revision was "an affront to the more than 50 million Americans who choose to smoke."
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It's also a goddamned embarrassment that they'd move like this when confronted by "Rock DJ." It's an affront to their country and their Queen and it's never going to get anyone laid.
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Smith took it as an affront that Haddish wasn't nominated for her role in the film and claims the Hollywood Foreign Press declined to watch the movie for consideration for an award.
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"The emerging culture of public lynching of judges and judicial officers by the political class is a vile affront to the rule of law and must be fiercely resisted," the statement read.
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The attempt to kill Sergei Skripal, a former double agent—and the poisoning of his daughter and a British policeman—was "an affront to the prohibition on the use of chemical weapons".
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The buyout season as it presently exists is an affront to competitive balance, and can already be seen to exert a weird warping effect on the way that the trade deadline works.
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In an ad for hardware maker Luma, the debonair actor sports hip glasses and a skinny tie as he rants about how "weak-ass wi-fi" is an affront to human rights.
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This move is an affront to the legacy of Theodore Roosevelt, the Republican champion of our nation's land heritage to whom both President Trump and Secretary Zinke have so keenly likened themselves.
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To view his application with favor would be an affront to every person, Jew or non-Jew, who is concerned with anti-Semitism, and would make a mockery of the immigration laws.
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Only then will the idea that people with more access to money should be able easily to dominate political life come to seem the absurdity and the affront that it truly is.
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"I don't know where the scandal is... This is an affront to democracy," said Gauland, who has described the Nazi era as "just bird shit in 1,000 years of successful German history".
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For parts of American society, the very idea of a young black girl aspiring to be more than invisible -- let alone successful or even famous -- is an affront to the natural order.
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According to the report, this rule change will likely be seen as an intentional affront to Trump, with whom the Scottish National Party, which is currently in power, has a tense relationship.
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"Any breach of our political organizations — regardless of party — is an affront to all of us, and we should come together as Americans to prevent it from ever happening again," McDaniel said.
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My friends and family were quick to let me know: Not having a Facebook account at all is even worse an affront to modern life than simply having one you don't use.
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"Voter fraud is an affront to democracy and places the decision-making authority of the Texas electorate in the hands of those who have no right to make those choices," Paxton said.
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There is growing frustration among donors with the GOP-controlled House — most recently over the passage of a massive budget that donors are describing as an affront to their fiscally conservative principles.
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But the most direct affront came last month, after the attorney general's new corruption unit, working with the panel, charged five legislators with pocketing money intended for social projects in their constituencies.
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An angry Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pronounced Mr. Trump's claim that he is protecting national security an "affront" to Canadians who have fought alongside American G.I.s from World War II to Afghanistan.
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Claims by a lawyer that the legal system is not fair or that punishments will not be proportionate are completely unfounded and an affront to the criminal justice system in Hong Kong.
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"Intolerance, racism and violence have absolutely no place in this country and are an affront to core American values," the Strategic and Policy Forum of corporate leaders declared in a parting statement.
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Unfortunately, the humor is overwhelmed by the serious failure of the Democratic House to recognize the blatant inconsistency of their claim and its affront to the central concept of our constitutional system.
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So it is likely to be taken as something of an affront to the current government under Prime Minister Viktor Orban that the United States may relaunch the pro-democracy news agency.
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To be told it so plainly in the form of hard data on my personal music-listening habits from the last year (and decade!) is an affront to my eyeballs and ego.
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McMaster has purged the NSC of several Bannon loyalists, and his efforts to "professionalize" the NSC are viewed by many on the right as an affront against Trump's core base of supporters.
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They say their mainland counterparts regarded it as an affront that the newly recovered territory would allow extradition to some foreign countries – even to America and Britain - but not to the motherland.
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They say their mainland counterparts regarded it as an affront that the newly recovered territory would allow extradition to some foreign countries – even to America and Britain — but not to the motherland.
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Because California is the most liberal state in the nation, and the existence of a high-tax, high-service state that nonetheless has a great economy is an affront to their principles.
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"Opening up these areas for mining without discussing environmental safeguards is a social and environmental international affront," World Wildlife Federation Brazil's executive director, Mauricio Voivodic, wrote in an email to VICE News.
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During the conversation, Moore articulated the central premise of his candidacy: that removing the sovereignty of a Christian God from government is an affront both to Moore's biblical savior and the Constitution.
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"Morawiecki had to call off the summit after the affront from Netanyahu because otherwise he would appear too soft," said Piotr Buras, head of the Warsaw office of the think-tank ECFR.
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Spain has repeatedly called for the return of Gibraltar, a strategically important outpost at the entrance to the Mediterranean, as it views British sovereignty there as an affront to its territorial integrity.
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The subject — inspired by the memory of an older sister, Sophie, who had died at 18940 — wasn't the problem, but his Impressionistic style was an affront to a local taste for academic naturalism.
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Some critics consider the Quiet Ride button an affront to the dignity of Uber's contractors, saying it makes them act like robots when their jobs will soon be threatened by self-driving vehicles.
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" She called the "heartbeat bill" and another proposal to ban abortion after 20 weeks that is working its way through the legislature an "affront to the rights and dignity of women in Ohio.
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Republicans have slammed the mandate for years as an affront to personal liberty, an unconstitutional coercion by the federal government that forces people to buy a product they may or may not want.
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"It is an affront to the families of the victims that, after ten years, those who planned the Mumbai attack have still not been convicted for their involvement," Pompeo said in a statement.
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Mr. Trump is popular with many voters who align themselves with the Tea Party and Ms. Haley's slight was seen as an affront to a group that helped her get elected in 2010.
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Ryan's plan is an affront to our rights as disabled individuals who deserve the dignity of decent healthcare, regardless of the bulk of our bank account balances or the weight of our wallets.
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Donald Trump's cutting insults about women's appearance are extensive and well-documented but Omarosa Manigault Newman managed to dig up an untold alleged affront for her new tell-all book, Unhinged, out Tuesday.
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Each one of us must choose whether to treat their mulish disloyalty to their fellow citizens as a given, worthy only of shrugs, or as a shocking affront that demands redoubled political action.
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"For Mr. Earnest to afford such little consideration to the gravity of the Pentagon's deception is an affront to survivors, Congress and the brave men and women who serve our country," retired Col.
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But for delegates like Kendal Unruh of Colorado, who is leading a crusade to prevent Trump from becoming the nominee, his campaign is a daily affront to everything the Republican Party stands for.
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Trump's long shadow in Utah But Trump's crude broadsides and harsh immigration policies have been an affront to Utah's huge population of Mormons, who embrace a doctrine of acceptance and inclusivity toward immigrants.
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In response to objections from Jewish groups, who considered the convent an affront to the memory of Jews who died at Auschwitz, Pope John Paul II ordered the nuns to move in 1993.
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"I am not willing to compromise my faith and Christian values, and I will not be viewed as being in any way complicit when an affront is made to those values," she said.
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Such an affront to Merkel could force her to fire Seehofer, and there is even talk of the end of the 70-year conservative parliamentary alliance between Bavaria and Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU).
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The conflicts surrounding Trump's D.C. hotel and the emoluments clause were exasperating but remote in their immensity, whereas a $211 toll for a $216 bottle of milk was an affront you could grasp.
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"The House bill, with no amendments, is completely unacceptable, an affront to any of us who were ever concerned about FISA abuse," Paul said, referring to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance, or FISA, Court.
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Some officials see the hiring of Dans — a lawyer who previously worked in New York and recently started at the agency, according to two people familiar with the matter — as yet another affront.
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How the court decides the North Carolina lawsuit could determine whether elections for decades to come are reasonably fair fights, or waged on maps that past justices have called an affront to democracy.
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The court's more conservative members said that requiring workers who choose not to join public unions to pay for collective bargaining and similar activities is an affront to their right to free speech.
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It's the fact that it's two guys from Silicon Valley yet again with no idea how the real world works, and they are doing something that is an actual affront to brown people.
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In a 2013 interview, Klaus Born, who was imprisoned in the 1960s after the police found him having sex with another man, described the conviction as a moral affront and a legal stigma.
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Read more " _____ • Derek Hunter in Town Hall: "Every move, every tweet is a threat to democracy, an affront to humanity, and surely will lead to the end of life as we know it.
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The network's reporters now routinely joust with Mr. Trump's press aides, and Jim Acosta, a White House correspondent, recently denounced the administration's use of off-camera briefings as an affront to American values.
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Likely ignorant of the fact that prosecutors routinely get rid of these cases without a conviction anyway, legislators have taken this replacement of individual decisions with an office wide policy as an affront.
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Describing the article as "an attempt to condescend and affront rather than reflecting an effort to understand Turkey," Ms. Kaplan said that Turks have good reason to be suspicious of the United States.
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"The Los Angeles Police Protective League will not defend Mr. Rojas during his criminal proceedings, and his alleged behavior is abhorrent and an affront to every law enforcement professional working for the LAPD."
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"As our members have expressed individually over the past several days, intolerance, racism and violence have absolutely no place in this country and are an affront to core American values," the statement reads.
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Australia saw its relationship with Beijing dip to new lows after the Chinese government took affront at laws designed to curb foreign influence which were proposed by the Australian government in December 2017.
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The president's affront on his own attorney general has also drawn fire from conservative members of Congress, who have urged Sessions in recent days to hold his ground in the standoff with Trump.
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Still, these proposals could become harder to reject if a large international coalition presents them to the Venezuelan people as assistance that should not be interpreted as an affront to their country's sovereignty.
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" In an email, she described Orgo Night as a "mildly inconvenient sonic affront,'' but she found the jokes made in the most recent round, for the most part, to be witty and insightful.
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"To many people, the idea of a speed limit feels like an affront to masculinity, like we're getting softer, we're degenerating," said Erhard Schütz, a retired professor and expert on the autobahn's history.
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Iran, one of the seven countries, said it would stop U.S. citizens entering the country in retaliation to Washington's visa ban, calling it an "open affront against the Muslim world and the Iranian nation".
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In the aftermath of the decision of various service providers to stop carrying InfoWars content, there are many who will say that this represents an unprecedented affront to free speech and First Amendment rights.
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Make no mistake: This song is an affront to taste and decency, a hellacious, disturbing pestilence that must be wiped from this Earth—or, at the very least, should not be shown to children.
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Lounge music is, to me, the lowest common denominator, so bland and inoffensive as to be an affront; it is the indistinct gray that emerges from mixing too many colors on the paint palette.
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In Germany the federal constitutional court ruled in 2015 that any "blanket ban" on state school-teachers wearing the hijab (a head-covering which leaves the face exposed) was an affront to religious liberty.
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"Governor Scott Walker's refusal to hold special elections is an affront to representative democracy," Holder, who served as attorney general under former Democratic President Barack Obama, said in a statement issued with the lawsuit.
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Many Appalachians saw Mr Obama's environmental attitude not as sound policy aimed at mitigating the risks of climate change, but as an affront from another big-city liberal looking down his nose at them.
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Early in the argument, Justice Kennedy said it would be an "affront to the gay community" if the baker "put a sign in his window" saying he does not bake cakes for gay weddings.
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The moment was an affront to the integrity of the presidency, but it also reminded me of something else I learned as a fact-checker: Even the truth can be deceiving when cherry-picked.
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Gotti's failure to receive permission from Gigante and the other bosses on the Mafia's ruling commission was a violation of basic mob etiquette, and an affront to the power of the sitting Mafia dons.
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Summoned by Ben's personal assistant, Zoe (Elizabeth Olsen) to drive to the Midwest with his dad, Matt flat-out refuses and isn't shy about communicating how much of an affront he considers the proposal.
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"Bringing an event like this to Coney Island is an affront to all of the hard work that our community has done to address gun violence in our neighborhood," the statement read in part.
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"She is sick, & the most overrated person on TV" suggests a personal injury and deeply felt affront, very different in tone from Trump's hearty mockery of "low energy" Jeb Bush or "Little Marco" Rubio.
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Trump is making statements that may keep some supporters happy, but he's also fueling a growing determination to stop his most egregious moves among those who see his presidency as an affront to democracy.
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There's no bigger turn-off than trying to turn someone on only to find that they don't match your energy—which is why it's an affront to respond to someone's nude with mere emojis.
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For years, opponents of the Electoral College have seen any elector being "faithless" as a direct affront to democratic self-government as they are now intended to simply rubberstamp the decisions of the voters.
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"The restrictions against travel by Muslims to America... are an open affront against the Muslim world and the Iranian nation in particular and will be known as a great gift to extremists," it added.
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"North Korea's ballistic and nuclear tests are an affront to the United Nations Security Council," North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in Tokyo, where he met Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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As a veteran of the U.S. army, I view the border wall as a direct affront to the democratic principles, values, and protection of human rights that the U.S. military is entrusted to uphold.
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"It is deeply humiliating, and an affront to human dignity, to deny someone a service because of that person's race, gender, disability, sexual orientation or any of the other protected personal characteristics," it reads.
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And the use of euphemisms like "genital cutting" that make FGM sound less horrific than it is, is yet another affront to the young girls and women who are forced to undergo the procedure.
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He said Colorado doesn't seem to be tolerant or respectful of the baker's religious freedoms but also suggested it's an affront to the gay community to allow businesses to discriminate against same-sex couples.
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" To "tackle this affront to our democracy," he said, the military was asking "our people to bear with us as we dutifully, but courteously, conduct our checkpoints and increase our presence in some areas.
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"It's already an affront just to hold a joint Ryanair and Fraport press conference on the same day as the Lufthansa third-quarter results," fund manager Michael Gierse at Lufthansa investor Union Investment, said.
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Any party or movement willing to suppress the voice of the people for political gain is an affront to our democratic ideals, and those who fought to secure our freedom and this very right.
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In each case, the openheartedness of these couples is an affront to the narrow-mindedness of some in their families, who display everything from well-meaning skepticism to historically burdened viewpoints to outright hostility.
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In Mr. Choe's telling, North Korea was driven to become a nuclear power in self-defense against America's "nuclear blackmail," sanctions, history of confrontation, and affront to the sovereignty and dignity of the state.
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They're the 2020 campaign's most public love story, one that makes it difficult for even the most resistant Americans to see a same-sex relationship as some frivolous romp, freakish affront or carnal curiosity.
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A stark embodiment of the white supremacy that Roosevelt himself espoused and promoted, the statue is an affront to all who pass it on entering the museum, but especially to African and Native Americans.
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That the rally was being held by police officers would send a loud message, Sergeant Raymond said, because a frequent criticism of Kaepernick has been that his protest was an affront to law enforcement.
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The slowly dissolving legacy of De La Soul feels like an affront, not simply because its music is still worth listening to but because it's a loss that is happening for relatively inane reasons.
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Hong Kong, by contrast, still allows nongovernmental organizations a great deal of freedom, and the work that many of them do is effectively an affront to the values of the Communist government in Beijing.
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"I've got a resolution ... urging her to send over the articles, and what she's doing is out of step with past precedent and an affront to the Senate," Graham told reporters on Capitol Hill.
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Such a broadly powerful super board would be a direct affront to the island's constitution and would have disastrous consequences for Puerto Rico and the U.S. municipal market as the aforementioned Super Chapter 9.
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The United States has a broken immigration system that's an affront to a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws, but nobody really wants to talk about why or how to fix it.
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Absent from the talks, however, was the American-backed Afghan government of President Ashraf Ghani, which has strongly criticized the meeting as an affront designed to undermine his office's authority and the Afghan state.
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The most controversial feature of the year's most hotly anticipated car is a touchscreen, a 15-inch display perched on the dash of the Tesla Model 3 like an affront to decades of automotive design.
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Our 2006 selves may have been an affront to our personal style as we now know it, but thankfully, they're buried deep in the countless photo albums in our parents' basements (well, and on MySpace...).
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Here's the statement in full: As our members have expressed individually over the past several days, intolerance, racism and violence have absolutely no place in this country and are an affront to core American values.
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"Any assistance provided by the Palestine Liberation Organization to those convicted of politically motivated violence is an affront to Australian values and undermines the prospect of meaningful peace between Israel and the Palestinians," she added.
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Until police brutality becomes such an outrage -- until the unnecessary taking of life becomes such an affront to good, decent people -- there's little chance we will be able to right what should be obvious wrongs.
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Spicer's own remarks on Wednesday drew at least as much alarm as Conway's did, if not more, for implying that businesses decisions that detract from Trump family profits would be viewed as a personal affront.
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"Allegations against Mr. Smollett are shameful & if proven, they are an affront to the people of Chicago who embraced him as a neighbor & respected him as a role model," Chicago police spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi tweeted.
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Still, for this group to give Trump an award of any type was an affront to anyone who has paid attention to his full record on criminal justice and to black people insisting on justice.
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By passing the buck, pointing the blame at anyone but themselves, and otherwise shirking any moral accountability, this policy's defenders do nothing to alleviate a gross affront to human dignity at its most fundamental level.
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"Voter fraud is an affront to democracy and places the decision-making authority of the Texas electorate in the hands of those who have no right to make those choices," Paxton said in a statement.
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"Today's appalling jail sentences against four pro-democracy activists are an affront to justice and the human rights to peaceful protest and freedom of expression," said Tam Man-kei, Director of Amnesty International Hong Kong.
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"The process, the content the intention of these bills, they are an affront to the values of our democracy," said Ticie Rhodes, 57, of Raleigh, retired teacher and counselor who was protesting with her church.
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However, those with the wherewithal to think otherwise—that "America Is Already Great," as the Democrats suggested in 2016—treated the current presidency as an affront on American values, a departure from Who We Are.
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The religious symbol ban has been rebuked as an affront to Canadian values by many Canadians, and this week Toronto's City Council followed Calgary's example by calling for a national campaign to denounce the law.
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" Harris took the move as an affront and in a now-deleted tweetstorm on July 13, 2016 said Swift needed "someone new to try and bury like Katy ETC but I'm not that guy, sorry.
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"Akbar al Baker's sexist and degrading remarks are an affront to our core values as a country, and he owes U.S. airline workers an apology," said Tim Canoll, president of the Air Line Pilots Association.
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Then, when Li quoted a sentence from "Reputations" that mentions James Joyce and concluded that Vásquez's new book marks him "as a Colombian writer working fully in the European tradition," the affront was too much.
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The team is Coach Jim Boeheim's worst offensive squad in recent memory and practically an affront to the modern game predicated on spreading the floor, moving the pace, driving and dishing for deep open shots.
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"As our members have expressed individually over the past several days, intolerance, racism and violence have absolutely no place in this country and are an affront to core American values," they said in a statement.
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It was a big step for her to have come to an event where we drank wine, and something that seemed like second nature to the German man had been a cultural affront to her.
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Andrew Simons, a senator from the party One Bermuda Alliance, which opposed the new law, said the change in legislation was "an affront to people's dignity," according to the Royal Gazette, a local news outlet.
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When the priests were interrogated at the S.B.U.'s regional headquarters in December, Bishop Pimen of Rivne showed up to offer them support and to denounce the proceedings as an affront to freedom of religion.
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For Desmond Meade and Neil Volz, the co-leaders of the grass-roots group that helped advance Amendment 4 — supported by nearly 65 percent of voters — the new bill is an affront to the electorate.
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There is a hard-to-resist urge to turn the scientific into the personal, for example, by interpreting a criticism of work product as a personal affront, or by condemning the messenger or the medium.
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Critics say it was an affront to the democratic process because the decision to expand the council was made after a long period of debate, a vote by the council and two unsuccessful legal challenges.
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The wearing of religious symbols like turbans is unpopular with many Quebecers who see it as an affront to the province's embrace of political secularism, a reaction to the Roman Catholic church's long dominance there.
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Payment for the wall has also become a central issue in Mexico, where Trump's demand is seen as an affront to national pride and an irrational demand that the government cannot afford to comply with.
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Addressing activists on Sunday at a rally in Lower Manhattan, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, shed tears as he lamented Mr. Trump's refugee ban as an affront to democracy and pluralism.
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Some 200 protesters gathered near the entrance of the convention centre near Tokyo, calling for the government-backed exhibition to be shut down as they regarded it as an affront to the nation's pacifist constitution.
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His initial Twitter post, "China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters — rips it out of water and takes it to China in unprecedented act," suggested he viewed it as a grave affront.
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Koreans saw this as an affront to their democracy and voted accordingly, marking the start of Park's precipitous decline in approval and robbing her of any political capital with which to weather the coming scandal.
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I mentioned a tertiary element, one that was quite edifying to yours truly and anyone else who is unfamiliar with the heartbreak of losing a favorite player to expulsion for some imaginary (or real) affront.
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"This ruling against a professional and respected journalist is an affront to all who are committed to furthering a free and robust press," said William Lewis, the chief executive of Dow Jones, the newspaper's publisher.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota, which has a large community with Scandinavian heritage, went to the Senate floor several times to rail about this affront to the nominee for Norway, Sam Heins, a fellow Minnesotan.
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And just like Iran after the U.S. pulled out of the nuclear deal with Tehran, Qatar appears to have no interest in ceding any ground, having already decried the demands as an affront to its sovereignty.
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Once awoken, he would find a target—be it one of my younger brothers, me, or my mom—and violently berate them for any slight aggravation or slight affront to his constant shifting code of ethics.
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DUBAI, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Iran on Saturday condemned the U.S. visa ban against Tehran and six other majority-Muslim countries as an "open affront against the Muslim world and the Iranian nation" and vowed to retaliate.
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In this toxic environment, the shooting became only the latest and the most direct affront to the healthcare provider, which helps millions of women and men with family planning, contraception, STD screenings, and other preventative care.
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"His alleged actions are a betrayal of our nation's security and the American people and are an affront to his former intelligence community colleagues," said John Demers, the head of the Justice Department's National Security Division.
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The governor's decision to give Mr. Trump a degree of political cover comes as Senator Ted Cruz, Mr. Trump's chief rival in Iowa polls, portrays Mr. Trump's refusal to debate as an affront to Iowa voters.
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I guess my face is weirdly angular like Leelee's, and I'm blonde and cute like Carey, but it's the only answer that I can think of to produce such an affront to my Troye-ish looks.
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A handful of GOP senators have compared President Donald Trump's impeachment trial to the contentious Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 — a political affront, a media circus and a high-stakes Senate vote.
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As such, the FCC's decision is a direct affront to the D.C. Circuit's holding in Verizon, which clearly holds that the commission cannot regulate a Title I information service as a Title II common-carrier service.
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"The arrest of Ms. Hashemi is a very clear affront to freedom of expression, a political abuse of an innocent individual and I believe the United States should release her immediately without further delay," Zarif said.
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That is a particular affront after eight years of President Obama, because so many in the GOP believe the President has stretched the limits of presidential power with his executive actions on gun control and immigration.
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As the video went viral, and the online furor escalated over what was interpreted as an affront to China, netizens scoured Yang's online presence for personal details, a process known in China as "human flesh search".
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Innocent Americans are placed on a Kafkaesque No-Fly List, and the prostrations one must endure before the security theater that is TSA airport security remain an affront to the dignity of flyers of all nationalities.
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" In a short press briefing in Bedminster, N.J., Shulkin denounced white supremacists and hate groups that fed the violence in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend, saying their ideology and behavior is an "affront to American ideals.
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This practice is a painful affront to victims and witnesses who come to our courts seeking justice, and a statement of smirking disrespect to the local police, prosecutors, and judges who are sworn to administer it.
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"If some minor amount of the rocky material rolled off the slope it is not meant as an intentional affront to our neighbor or as any form of trespass," the company wrote, according to the Eagle.
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He has helped the Ku Klux Klan rally at a state capitol and defended the right of a Florida pastor to burn a Quran, an affront that led to a deadly riot halfway around the world.
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The arguments may make sense in theory, but when it comes to trying to protect those who can't afford the most basic goods, they seem like an inhumane affront to our sensibilities, Andrew Ross Sorkin writes.
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But outright annexation would be a blatant violation of international norms and an affront to the Palestinians that would snuff what glimmer of possibility remains for a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Officers and enlisted men interviewed on the front lines in Mosul said they interpreted the order as an affront — not only to them but also to fellow soldiers who have died in the battle for Mosul.
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Dueling was considered the appropriate response to an affront, however trivial: Two men disagreed about how thin Bernhardt was when she played Hamlet and settled the matter with pistols (they both survived, though one almost didn't).
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Others, though, say that choosing a street in a white area would be an affront to the city's black residents and disrespectful of the fact that Dr. King fought primarily for the rights of black people.
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Everything about the sushi at middling pan-Asian restaurants and in cooler cases — the underseasoned rice, the thick slabs of fish, the jagged piece of artificial turf on the tray — is an affront to such connoisseurship.
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"This is an abuse of power and an affront to the scientific integrity of the EPA and the federal government," Joshua Goldman, senior legal analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists, said in a press release.
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"It is deeply humiliating, and an affront to human dignity, to deny someone a service because of that person's race, gender, disability, sexual orientation or any of the other protected personal characteristics," the new judgment said.
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If the White House truly believes that requiring Ms. Conway to abide by the Hatch Act constitutes an unacceptable affront to the First Amendment, the answer is not to encourage her to continue breaking the law.
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Conservatives who didn't care about that affront, but convulsed when Harry Reid solved the problem by eliminating the filibuster for all sub-Supreme Court nominations, shouldn't be mistaken as tribunes of principle for our faltering governing institutions.
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U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is preparing to ignore any rulings by the World Trade Organization that it sees as an affront to U.S. sovereignty, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing a report prepared by officials.
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The move was intended as an homage to the 79-year-old who is an LGBT icon — but the actor told the Hollywood Reporter he sees the move as an affront to the franchise's creator, Gene Roddenberry.
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Donald Trump's Sunday Twitter outburst naming China has continued to send ripples through Chinese media, as both state-run papers and social media grapple with what is seen as a huge affront to the large Asian power.
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"The best parts of the film are those that pit Valentino against Hollywood, which both he and Mr. Russell seem to see as the biggest affront of them all," Janet Maslin wrote in The Times in 1977.
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More worrisome is that the supporters of the president's party frequently can't be bothered to turn out for more than one election in a row — voters seemingly grow dispirited and disaffected by the slightest failure or affront.
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This time, Trump was asking not a friendly country, but a top geopolitical foe of the United States to interfere in America's elections, an even more jaw-dropping affront to the responsible conduct of US foreign policy.
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" Why the U.S. got in: The authors spoke with senior Obama administration officials who said they had viewed Yemen's president as a good partner, particularly on counterterrorism, and his ouster "as an affront to the international order.
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What should be clear is that restrictions platforms like Twitter seem increasingly willing to entertain aren't an affront to free speech, but rather a clear system of consequences to violating the rules its users opt in to.
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