"offend" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- You should therefore exercise caution and ensure that your behaviour does not offend local sensitivities.
- You should be aware of offending Islamic sensitivities.
- Such targets may also include establishments where activities occur that may offend religious sensitivities, such as casinos or places where alcoholic beverages are sold or consumed.
- Even when invited, descending American helicopters offend Latin sensitivities.
- Outside the main tourist areas, women should cover legs and shoulders so as not to offend local sensitivities.
- The festival, the first of its kind to take place in the Middle East, became mired in controversy last week over the apparent blacklisting of Geraldine Bedell's novel The Gulf Between Us for potentially offending "cultural sensitivities".
- The approach raised questions about whether Mr. Ban, a former South Korean foreign minister, understood the easily offended sensitivities of the world he has entered.
- Compared with such an inexorable path to disaster, still camouflaged by the 'Hitler myth', the self-seeking aggrandisement of Party bosses, however much it offended social and political sensitivities, was only of fringe importance.
- Bush tried, more than any previous Republican candidate had, not to offend liberal sensitivities on race.
- Last month, the Pope reportedly incurred the wrath of the Greek Orthodox Church by offering Easter greetings in Macedonian, offending Greek sensitivities about the proclaimed independence of the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia.
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