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335 examples of Offended in a sentence

Thaksin’s supposedly legal “tax planning,” which allowed him to pay zero capital gains tax on the billion dollar sale of his flagship telecom company, Shin Corporation, in 2006, offended the rising urban professional classes.
Should I feel offended?
So Amazon is no stranger to the anger of offended Indians.
Parliamentarians were offended by press coverage of Queen Caroline’s divorce in 1820, and by newspapers’ mockery of King George IV.
It is possible for the financial accounts to be in order, and yet for the people — who make up the firm’s most valuable asset – to be humiliated and their dignity offended.
Suddenly, a policy purportedly intended to protect Canadians from Islamist terrorism became a policy that offended Canadians’ sense of who they were: an open, compassionate society.
Indians are acutely conscious that, on this subject, the Chinese are easily offended.
When Vladimir Putin complained during a conference in Munich last year that US unilateralism stoked conflict around the world, an offended Senator John McCain responded that confrontation was unnecessary in “today’s multipolar world.”
Other Latin American heads of state, however, were not so casual; in fact, they were deeply offended.
In those circumstances, the violence is not imminent, and it is carried out by those offended by the speaker’s views rather than by sympathizers.
Combating racism, promoting tolerance, and respecting the religious sentiments of others does not mean that we need to question press freedom or accept Islamists’ demands for censorship, even when real religious sentiments are offended, as in the case of the Danish caricatures.
And “non-apology apologies” – for example, “I’m sorry if you feel I have offended you” – are often worse than nothing, although they are a familiar diplomatic stock-in-trade of which I, too, have been guilty of using.
It is unclear whether Maduro, who called for Venezuela’s authorities to take unspecified “action” against Hausmann and Santos (both Venezuelan citizens), was more offended by the suggestion that his government should default on external debt, or by the authors’ list of all the other ways it has already defaulted.
Many are offended by his tweet storms and outrageous disregard for facts.
Along that tortuous route, the world's major powers are bound to be offended, probably quite regularly.
This “dementia tax,” as it became widely known, deeply offended the core constituency, the elderly, of May’s Conservative Party.
Spaniards are offended when they are compared to Greeks, Poles are shocked when they are compared with Spaniards, the French refuse to be compared to Italians, and so on, in an infernal spiral.
(New Yorkers and many others were also offended by Cruz’s statement, not because the city isn’t socially liberal and the home base of America’s media and financial industries, but because the pejorative use of “New York” has historically been an anti-Semitic dog whistle.)
He was deeply offended by the negative reaction on the streets and in the press following his controversial election in 2012 to a third presidential term, accusing the opposition and the West of trying to undermine him.
Cheng Zu used the Dong Chang to bypass other state organs and persecute countless innocent people who had offended him.
In fact, they might have been offended if one questioned their staunch anti-liberalism.
By violating the symmetry of respect and equidistance between ethnic groups that characterizes Senegal’s pluralism, he offended far more people than he attracted.
As this example shows – and as John Stuart Mill argued in his classic On Liberty – once we allow, as a ground for restricting someone’s freedom of speech or action, the claim that someone else has been offended by it, freedom is in grave danger of disappearing entirely.
But the UK is certainly not the only country with disgruntled citizens who feel left behind by globalization or offended by cultural liberalization.
“Make America Great Again” offers the promise of restoring lost privileges and status for those whose sensibilities are offended by a changing world.
The government has effortlessly bullied some of the world’s largest and best-known companies into submission after they offended its delicate political sensitivities.
The countries to Germany’s east have been offended for quite some time.
The longer he talked the more his eyes flashed, the more hastily he retorted on imaginary opponents, and the more agitated and offended became his face.
Far an instant he was offended, but immediately knew he could not be offended with her because she was himself.
'What, indeed?' she replied, offended that he seemed opposed to and vexed at her offer.
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