The government has also hotly rebuffed requests by foreign governments, including America’s, to allow international observers, calling them an affront to national sovereignty.
Some think the notion is an affront to those who place cultural, spiritual or aesthetic value on biodiversity for its own sake.
Lack of sanitation is a serious health risk and an affront to human dignity.
Smokers are an affront to this fantasy, and that is why no condemnation is strong enough for their presumption.
The likely appointment of "Prince Jean" to a job that his father once held has been the source of widespread anger and ridicule by those who see it as an affront to France's egalitarian values.
His contentment would be short-lived. France was bankrupt, and its monarchy an affront to the Enlightenment.
Hawkish Republicans immediately condemned the remarks as a distortion of the party's stance and an affront to soldiers on the front line.
Underlined is: “Each and every irksome Jew is a serious affront to the authenticity and veracity of our German identity.”
The EU's 6, 000 fur farms are an affront to the values it proclaims.
Their talks fell through last year when MTN’s board argued that it should buy Bharti, not the other way around—a reversal which Sunil Mittal of Bharti condemned as an affront to the “pride of India”.
It is an affront to the armies of traders, brokers and fund managers who require high costs for their livelihood.
But if American parents did this, it would be seen as shortsighted and an affront to the dignity of their children.
Failing as entertainment on every conceivable level, Gigli is a joyless watch akin to some kind of endurance test, an affront to the innocent viewer.
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