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Example sentences for: affront

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The Taliban and other Islamists found their activities an affront to Islam and in violation of Afghanistan's laws and the regime's tenets.
USAT also claims that lab analysts must determine "whether the quality or quantity [of semen] is sufficient" for accurate testing, meaning a legal break for the President might be an affront to his manhood.
On the other hand, if it does test, "Bill Clinton will probably take it as a personal affront" and impose sanctions that would "certainly" cause the country to collapse.
A piece challenges recent findings that mothers don't harm their children's development by working as an "affront" to those moms who stay home or work out of necessity.
He asserts that our meritocratic system is unfair, that it is an affront to our egalitarian ideals.