Never really having been challenged, when the challenge finally comes, it seems an affront.
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"It's an affront to us, it makes us wonder what's going on, "he says.
India remains a deeply hierarchical society where criticism is often taken as a personal affront.
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In some cases, the affront to the letter and spirit of the law has been egregious.
"The royal veto is a serious affront to our democracy, " said the organisation's spokesman Graham Smith.
For some of Ted Kennedy's critics, his brand of liberalism represented an affront to American liberty.
It's an affront to the American people and to our troops, and it has to stop.
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Perjured testimony is an obvious and flagrant affront to the basic concepts of judicial proceedings.
These deaths are a tragedy and an affront to our collective sense of dignity and fairness.
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Slavery remains the affront to human dignity and stain on our collective conscience that it has always been.
Whether it's an affront or not, Londoners might as well ring in the Shard while they're at it.
When the UK government first proposed such an agreement, he suggested it was an affront to Scottish democracy.
Captain MIKE FORD (L.A. County Sheriff's Department): It's an affront to us when the crime goes up that much.
The recent attacks are an affront to all civilized people in the world.
The heightened ability of some individuals to procure organs because of wealth also was an affront to egalitarian sensibilities.
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Right-wing nationalist parties, which regarded the devolution plan as an affront to the Sinhalese majority, were trounced in the election.
Most days, a walking affront to the self-delusion of France, he would appear with his yellow dossier underneath his arm.
Mr. MacAskill's decision was an affront to those who suffered this grisly fate and to a nation's longing for justice.
Perhaps even more worrying is the embrace by Team Obama of a still-greater affront to American sovereignty and self-governance: transnationalism.
Physicists call these causal loop paradoxes, and they affront our desire for the universe to be a rational and ordered system.
Mr Barwell described as an "affront" the fact that discrimination against people who had suffered mental illness was enshrined in law.
The current proposal is an affront to sound science and responsible policymaking.
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Security Minister Ian Pearson described the attacks as an "affront to democracy".
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The affront is that Medicare needs to sneak around in order to offer a type of care that is routine in private insurance.
It may be unpopular and an affront to the personal sensibilities of some, but Rangers needs to learn to live within its means.
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Opponents of the idea focus on a different aspect: it is, they think, an affront to the religious liberties enshrined in the constitution.
Comments of that nature which had no foundation in reality represented an affront to their dignity and undermined their standing in the community.
He was doing a return at the same time he fought with his mind, with the sin and affront of even the passing thought.
About 300 US servicemen and employees work at the base, and the Correa administration has said it considers their presence an affront to Ecuador's sovereignty.
He may also regard with satisfaction the affront he has caused to France's banking elite, whose sensibilities he offended with tactical bursts of Flemish brusqueness.
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