It is an affront to the Constitution and an assault on the rights of individuals.
Never really having been challenged, when the challenge finally comes, it seems an affront.
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Bristling citizens and indignant pundits quickly denounced the affront to the country's highest office.
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"It's an affront to us, it makes us wonder what's going on, "he says.
But, in principle, simply the existence of totalitarian states is an affront to democratic values.
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.
Emergency or no, the exercise of such broad authority would be an affront to our Constitution.
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Reneging on that commitment would be perceived by Beijing as the worst kind of affront.
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' And that is shocking, it is outrageous, it is a disgraceful affront to free speech.
"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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Its application is an affront to due process and the rule of law in this country.
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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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It is an affront to this country's proud tradition of giving sanctuary to those fleeing danger and violence.
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.
However a spokesman for the Unite union said the decision had been "an affront to democracy in this country".
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.
The exercises were shifted away from town after locals protested that they were an affront to sovereignty and national pride.
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.
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