How To Use Offending In A Sentence

He took an aesthete's view that some of the writing in the issue was ‘indecent in the sense of offending against delicacy’ but ‘would not deprave or corrupt save in point of literary style’.
Offending drivers are to be pulled over as part of a pilot scheme and ‘given advice’ rather than booked, on the basis that it is pointless fining people for innocent mistakes.
That's right, vast swabs of the offending speech are reproduced under the cover of the Parliamentary privilege that had been so abused.
Misuse of alcohol and drugs are key factors behind offending by veterans and a high proportion of crimes are linked to domestic violence. Times, Sunday Times
Not since the days when a churl suffered extravagant penalties for offending a Norman lord have we seen such disparities of treatment within our justice system.

Since there's little danger of hypothermia when the water temperature is 80 degrees, your chief sartorial concern is not offending other boaters.
Though he is sworn to secrecy, Larry, stricken with guilt over offending a friend, spills the beans.
We would need to see the context of these memos to know what beefs Roberts might have had with the offending words.
When the offending device had finally been removed, she didn't notice even then; her mind had been made as pure as the cubic room she was contained in.
Is there a huge problem with renegade owners unlawfully springing their offending dogs from the doggy jail?
Over the same period, the number of similarly offending innkeepers who were amerced the higher sum of 3s. 4d. varied between eight in 1631 and 1637 and four in 1632 and every year between 1639 and 1642. Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner
In this new world, any departure from the narrowest fiscal path is hazardous to the health of the offending country.
Perhaps they are afraid of being ‘politically incorrect’ or offending religious susceptibilities.
Although frustrated, the man meekly returned the offending piece back to its stand.
This was when the women's liberation movement was in full swing, and the brassiere was regarded as an offending piece of ‘body machinery’, designed by men and foisted on women.
He caught hold of the neck of the offending garment and ripped it clean to the hem.
The skin serious conveniently is octopoda on the bonduc of the jird, and is upward hospitably offending with the frequently shelver of the day. Rational Review
He seems oblivious that he is ignoring their guest and offending an upset wife who has done her best to provide genuine hospitality. Christianity Today
Top offending foods identified were, in alphabetical order, barley, beef, chicken, lamb, potato, rice, soya and wheat.
I'm refreshed, having binned the offending pants.
However you took the offending article down before I had chance to snort with derision at its fubar logic and textual opacity.
He said the pensioner, who suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure and arthritis, had now accepted the affair was over, had been reconciled with his wife and any future offending was unlikely.
Consequently, the costs of strengthening and extending the probation service could be defrayed by charging a fee to the offending corporation.
In most instances a doctor would be present, since such reactions are most commonly seen very shortly after the person receives a desensitizing injection of the offending substance.
When the offending Arminian left he returned to the fold.
For the _cordon-bleu_ hoped that the lion would exhibit disapproval of the paint and powder by chumping off the offending head, and that would have been frightfully thrilling. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"
The announcement last year of a possible North West assembly had to be held in an hotel in Daresbury in Cheshire in order to be roughly equidistant between Liverpool and Manchester and avoid offending the residents of either.
A show spokeswoman insisted that the offending gnome be ejected. Times, Sunday Times
The consequences of offending someone by ignoring their friend request are greater with a colleague you see every day than with a careless dining companion you may never meet again.
Family GuyFamily Guy inherited the dysfunctional family mantle - or perhaps mantlepiece, since it's still all suburban - and pushed the boundaries further than The Simpsons has in a long time, frequently offending at least eight separate special interest groups in one 23 minute show. The Flintstones celebrate 50 year anniversary with a Google doodle
They consist of giving injections or drops of small quantities of the offending foods, well diluted. Alternative Health Care for Women
Indeed, after years of declawing, today's BBC is so P45-paranoid of offending anyone that we should all feel verily grateful for a meandering plot in The Archers about Lynda's llamas. Grace Dent's TV OD: Luther and Falling Skies
She took off the offending dark green velvet dress and changed me into my beautiful white muslin dress with its pale blue sash.
Stop using the offending drug and speak to your GP, pronto. The Sun
He spat the offending liquid into the dust, and passed the water bottle back to her.
The offending fire alarm was now completely detached from the wall.
The other way is to use gas chromatography/mass spectrometry to measure how much of the offending compounds are in pond water.
Queen's Majesty is not pleased that I should molest her Highness with any more of my colourable letters, which, although they be termed colourable, yet not offending the Queen's Majesty, I must say for myself that it was the plain truth, even as I desire to be saved afore Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries
Food allergies are untreatable, and people with these allergies must avoid offending foods, which can be impossible.
They may have a range of emotional needs, issues related to drugs or alcohol or a history of offending.
Avoid environmental offending agents such as rugs, cats, dogs (although some dogs such as poodles and Yorkies are ok) and feather pillows.
City officials originally requested that owners of these establishments voluntarily dismantle the offending structures.
They consist of giving injections or drops of small quantities of the offending foods, well diluted. Alternative Health Care for Women
He will compute well what profit is in it, and what disprofit; under which latter head this of offending any of his fellow-creatures will surely not be forgotten. Paras. 1-24
The presence of offending comments does not necessarily reflect the views of the editors of altmuslim. Altmuslim
It is true the people at the Cascades had suffered much, and that their wives and children had been murdered before their eyes, but to wreak vengeance on Spencer's unoffending family, who had walked into their settlement under the protection of a friendly alliance, was an unparalleled outrage which nothing can justify or extenuate. She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
She was brought in to help a female employee at Rolex who was offending an executive with her "klutzy" footwear -- which turned out to be orthopedic shoes. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Custodial sentences and remands prevent immediate offending but increase the likelihood of later and more serious reoffending.
But to reduce reoffending we need far more attention paid to what happens when offenders leave prison. Times, Sunday Times
Socially, she's a disaster - she's always offending someone or picking a fight.
The offending advertiser is likely also to receive adverse publicity. Business Studies Basic Facts
Reminded of unpleasant reality, public opinion swung to censure the offending speaker. WEEKEND FOR MURDER
For the canonic defense to work, everything substantively provocative in the offending art work has to be played down or simply denied.
Despite world pube supplies being at a perilous low, one singular offending hair survived current genital fashions for waxed baldness, provoking inter-landlandy armageddon on Three In A Bed Thu, 8pm, Channel 4. Grace Dent's TV OD: Three In A Bed
When the offending spouse initiated the divorce, however, the faithful spouse was more likely to experience depression.
Putting young offenders into a prison or other custodial establishment does not deter them from offending.
The monsters represented the top offending single-use plastic polluters: bags, straws, water bottles, bottle caps, cutlery, and 6-pack rings. Lisa Kaas Boyle: Youth Movement to Reduce Plastic Pollution
And if it ` s not just sexual offending, it ` s something what we call interpersonal offending. CNN Transcript May 29, 2008
The skin serious conveniently is octopoda on the bonduc of the jird, and is upward hospitably offending with the frequently shelver of the day. Rational Review
They quickly filled six shopping carts with everything from frozen onion rings to premade potato salad, baked beans, chicken, grapes, romaine lettuce and the offending sugar-cookie dough.Ms.
Well, I've blacklisted the sites and deleted the offending comments.
He has exhibited no swagger or bravado about what happened and represents a low risk of reoffending. Times, Sunday Times
Barb: Cityduck – it is true that Europeans are afraid of the volatile Muslims and tippy-toe around offending them – since the cartoon incident. The Volokh Conspiracy » Another Call for Governmental Suppression of Speech Offensive to Religious Sensibilities
As soon as the offending protein is ingested, the body produces histamine in an attempt to expel or kill the ‘invader’.
The outraged wives of the hackmen assembled, and, to express their indignation at the tax, mobbed the offending members of Parliament on their way from the House. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864
He has exhibited no swagger or bravado about what happened and represents a low risk of reoffending. Times, Sunday Times
If, as we are led to believe, there is some benefit to be obtained by continuing to allow night flights, ought we to surmise from this that the offending aircraft are simply carrying freight?
He has been involved in serious and violent offending over a prolonged period of time.
Eventually got to work 35 minutes late, once the offending train had shunted into the sidings.
A temporary officer will also be seconded to the Youth Offending Team, on a permanent arrangement.
How does he sound populist without offending his supporters in the corporate boardroom?
With both hands she shoved the blade back and side-kicked the startled man forcefully, crushing him against an unoffending door.
If the offending remains serious or persistent, the team can arrange for closer control of the young person through electronic tagging, intensive supervision, or ultimately by custodial detention.
The offending material in all species of poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac is an oily resin known as urushiol. Summertime Skin Irritants
Most youngsters are arrested for theft - 70 percent of those on Taylor House rehabilitation schemes - and persistent offending is declining.
Again, odds ratios were stronger for recidivistic violence than for violence in general or property offending.
To punctuate his statement, he yanked the last offending hair out and set the tweezers down on his dresser.
They said that ridding the prison system of those serving short sentences would free officers to concentrate on rehabilitation work designed to prevent serious criminals reoffending on release.
Clara pours the offending milk onto her Nuts and Seeds muesli, feeling queasier by the second. The Redleys
She's a game old bird, though; dashingly dressed in sensible breeches and stout walking boots, she's off down the fairway to confront the offending husband.
Successive administrations have proven adept at devising strategies for isolating offending regimes.
Even in a stream of traffic the laser beam can isolate the offending vehicles with an accurate read out of speed and range.
So for some men it was clear that their offending was really about seeking intimacy with kids as opposed to adults, who they saw as untrustworthy.
I will say I honestly think, even at the risk of offending people.
For what it's worth, the offending sign uses an apostrophe to suggest the possessive of a singular noun instead of the plural intention.
Mr Brown would have been eligible for parole 10 years ago if he'd shown he had ‘come to terms with his offending’ by admitting the crime.
Astonished and indignant at so sudden and violent an assault, Camilla stood suspended, whether to deign any vindication, or to walk silently away: yet its implications involuntarily filled her with a thousand other, and less offending emotions than those of anger, and a general confusion crimsoned her cheeks. Camilla
Will they go ahead with their plans, even at the risk of offending the Americans?
As a last resort, measures could be taken to prevent offending companies from being listed on the stock exchange.
Justices adjourned the case so the youth offending team can prepare a pre-sentence report considering all possible sentences.
Women should avoid wearing scanty beachwear in rural areas away from hotels and campsites to avoid offending locals.
I thought I'd remove it and, taking a hammer from the toolshed, lightly tapped the offending projection.
Flat-D, "the #1 name in flatulence odor control for humans and canines," offers products to mask the offending odor. June 2004
Rather than employing digital trickery or using the old-fashioned method of re-editing, he elected to blot out the offending material by a huge red block.
I hope I'm not offending your civic pride.
To avoid young people offending in the first place, there will be more drug education in schools and schemes to tackle truancy and the number of excluded youngsters.
These are not fly-by-night firms and fortunately so far the offending firms have backed down.
Do you suppose it would be offending against good taste to wear a patterned tie with my striped shirt?
Resisting the urge to strangulate the offending appliance with its own electrical cord I hadn't the energy, to be honest; I quite literally rolled out of bed and dropped to the floor. Kristie Ko: Stress? Live Your Life, and Don't Settle For Less
Attacks on unoffending furniture, equipment, or surroundings are so commonplace as to be hardly worth mentioning.
Thousands of offenders will be tagged on their release from jail under plans being considered by ministers to reduce reoffending rates.
If the offending player is benched for game, you'll find that things go a lot smoother afterwards.
He finds “misuse of the offending term attributable to spurious erudition on the part of the writers combined with scientific illiteracy on the part of copy editors.” The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
Cityduck – it is true that Europeans are afraid of the volatile Muslims and tippy-toe around offending them – since the cartoon incident. The Volokh Conspiracy » Another Call for Governmental Suppression of Speech Offensive to Religious Sensibilities
After the rehearsal, I caught Gabriel before he left the room, making a point to be extra-polite and unoffending as possible.
Notice that you are able to turn her down with a little white lie, while neither offending her nor coming off as an abrupt and anti-social clod.
He cannot gamble on offending his boss.
The charge was one of offending public decency. The Bullet Catchers
Realizing its error at the last minute, the magazine just managed to correct the offending headline.
The offending post has been removed, thanks to a sharp-eyed programmer who let us know what had happened.
Shaking himself clear of such offending thoughts he barely heard her undisguised disgust.
Even with his offending ankle numbed by a painkiller shot, he appeared uncomfortable, huffing and puffing and repeatedly tying his shoe between pitches.
In New Zealand the recidivist index showed that where people were released without parole, their rate of offending was twice the level of those who were released on parole.
I could probably make more of a career if I committed my opinions to print, but I'm kind of a pussy about the possibility of offending people.
Patients identify offending foods by common names such as lobster, as opposed to the species names.
Even in a stream of traffic the laser beam can isolate the offending vehicles with an accurate read out of speed and range.
And a substantial number of allegations were made when virtually no action could be taken because the offending priest was already dead, resigned, retired, or laicized.
The offending molar twinged as the twilight breeze drew more coolness into the air. O' Bending Light
With a bitter glare at his scarred right hand, he heaved on the rope and sent the unoffending log scooting another length across the ground.
His tendency to deny or minimalise his past offending behaviour makes counselling difficult.
Microbes in the animals' stomachs help ferment grass and other foods into a digestible state, producing the offending gases.
I will say I honestly think, even at the risk of offending people.
If you want to cut crime - and save money - invest in programmes that analyse offending behaviour and help to re-educate people who have often known no other life.
He wondered if the police investigation would uncover the offending car and driver.
His wife pressures him to arrogantly walk across a red carpet into the palace, offending the gods.
Imprisonment does not break the cycle of offending and addiction.
Then came the news that the Daily Mail compositors had refused to set an offending leading article.
Therefore, expect to feel pangs of craving for offending foods for a while. The Beat Fatigue Workbook - how to identify the causes
Of course, it's not easy to tackle persistent offending, but authoritarianism will never work - no matter how loud our politicians shout.
An unsteady hand raised to the offending body part, shaking fingers drawing up to pull the dart out of her flesh and the hood it had pierced through to reach her neck.
The offending work was a piece from Condo's suite of Kanye portraits in which a fearsome Kanye, pictured naked, sits straddled by a nude, phoenixlike, winged woman-creature. A 'dark, twisted fantasy' revealed
Liberally sprinkle soda in the offending loafer or lace-up and let it sit overnight.
contracts offending against the statute were canceled
Leapor makes general assertions about marriage in this poem partly because she can not make further particular observations without offending Octavia.
The offending items were mechanical overrides, which permit the key to be removed from the ignition with the shifter in a position other than park and allow the transmission to be shifted out of park with the ignition in the off position.
Could it be the fact that on more than one occasion, litter louts (with the emphasis firmly on the louts) have chucked drink cans and the remains of their take-aways over my unoffending garden wall?
Indigenous and government agencies are reaffirming their commitment today to a project to prevent youth cyclical offending in Geraldton.
Mix well and spray thoroughly over both sides of the foliage and onto the offending pest.
London, and was considered as offending against the six articles, and was taken to the Tower, and put upon the rack — probably because it was hoped that she might, in her agony, criminate some obnoxious persons; if falsely, so much the better. A Child's History of England
Criminals try to avoid offending in places where they are likely to be noticed.
In other words, giving up offending foods for a couple of weeks can eventually help the body detoxify - if it leads to a new, long-term healthy mind-set.
The "agent"—whose real sympathies lay with Tyndale—took the bishop's money, bought lots of the offending books, and sent them to the bishop, who duly burned them in public.
If a book has been mauled by our critics, one can hardly expect the massacre to be put on display in a shop aiming to shift copies of the offending item.
And calls abound to avoid offending those who kill us. Archive 2009-03-01
Are the police going to go into those libraries and rip out the offending page?
I know personally, I would march day and night, risking imperilment to demand that the offending soldiers were held accountability to the fullest extent. Reactions: Defusing a Koran Shooting in Iraq - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
According to Dr Kilkelly, the Children's Court system is failing many young people and causing them to enter an endless cycle of offending.
In addition, the offending team is penalised 52 points.
They quickly filled six shopping carts with everything from frozen onion rings to premade potato salad, baked beans, chicken, grapes, romaine lettuce and the offending sugar-cookie dough.Ms.
Under section 139, it is for the prosecution to prove that the defendant knowingly had the offending article in his possession.
For a chancellor to leak out details of his Budget ahead of the day it was due to be presented to the House of Commons would have led to the offending politician being carted off the Tower of London.
Probation officers said naming and shaming offenders was counterproductive and would lead to more re-offending.
No sooner than Amy and Chasity had stepped out the door, a train of the offending boys and their mothers were making their way towards Chasity's brownstone.
As I dressed her wound, she informed me of how she had initiated her treatment at home by anointing the offending knife with oil, wrapping it in a clean linen napkin, and placing the knife in a drawer.
Will they go ahead with their plans, even at the risk of offending the Americans?
This thing is like a porno edited for a hotel room: the good stuff has been cut to avoid offending anyone.
One East German poet included a portrayal of Prometheus not as benefactor but as ‘the enemy who brought war and inequality into the once paradisal world and produced human misfortune by offending the gods.’
In the hard drive realm, the offending hit may just be replaced with a better sounding hit, but this can be time consuming, and requires an excellent DAW.
The slide librarian called to ask whether I would like her to misfile the offending slides.
Ministers hope the national launch of the scheme will help nip offending in the bud and stop young people being drawn into a life of crime.
They donned black armbands mourning the cattails and circulated petitions to have the offending drainage pipe removed.
Personally, he was an intellectual moralist, and more offending to him than platitudinous pomposity was the morality of those about him, which was a curious hotchpotch of the economic, the metaphysical, the sentimental, and the imitative. Chapter 29
The offending Army vehicle - a large personnel carrier, the army equivalent to the police crocodile, called a "puma" - was lying upside down. - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community
Some of the cutesier badges on Fourquare are offending some users. Contentious.com
This provides a lock for those who must use it or simply prefer to use it without offending the sensibilities of those who do not.
A spokeswoman told the newspaper that offending sections of the site had been removed and apologised for any offence caused.
Looking deeply at these countries and at this faith in a critical way risks sort of offending important multicultural pieties, which is that all cultures are equal, all religions are equal, all religions are equally peaceful. CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2001
Doesn't the present rate of reoffending tell you that waivers don't work? Times, Sunday Times
Allen back-pedalled, saying that he had had no intention of offending them.
No girl, not even Dora Stein herself, would dare risk offending any other of the floorwalkers, men able to break a saleswoman if they "got Winnie Childs The Shop Girl
THE number of sins a person may commit is well-nigh incalculable, which is only one way of saying that the malice of man has invented innumerable means of offending the Almighty -- a compliment to our ingenuity and the refinement of our natural perversity. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
Certainly, the exhibitor could be required to remove the offending poster by virtue of section 5.
That, he says, is simply to avoid offending his hardworking colleagues in the next room.
A cough is simply an effort of the lungs or bronchiæ to remove some offending intruder that ought to be doing duty elsewhere; and may we not call neuralgia _a cough of a nerve_ to get rid of a disagreeable oppression -- nature's legitimate _coup d'état_ to put down and transport those "_red socialist_" particles that would interfere with the regularity of its constitution? Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852
The consequences - offending the family patriarch and causing the family financial hardship - are considered too large for the sake of a girl.
And while this showed them (at their core) to be closer to historical, conservative orthodoxy than many thought, yet (for one) the promoting of annihilationism is no peripheral issue, and which (for one) makes a mockery of Christ's repeated warning to cut of an offending member rather than to enter unquenchable fire. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
The offending publication was not made by the contemners in ignorance of the consequences.
In fact, there were at most a few inches of slack in the offending foresheet, but the word panache might have been coined specifically for Captain Pitchallow, and Holderman knew better than to argue with him.
Without a second glance she cheeked the offending driver, forgetting her windows were too darkly tinted for the person to see, and then relaxed back in her comfortable driver's seat and flicked on the radio.
They consist of giving injections or drops of small quantities of the offending foods, well diluted. Alternative Health Care for Women
He is attacking lawyers for advancing needless litigation and thinks offending counselors should be sued.
I should have thought before offending their aesthetic senses. A DARKENING STAIN
Apparently, as a manager, it was his responsibility to chase down the offending culprit and resolve the situation.
He introduced a tough moral fiber into a government grown flabby; he was fearless in pursuing what he believed to be right policy, offending the spoilsmen of the party when he refused to fire competent Republicans.
It was suggested that the marriage had struggled around this time and perhaps coincided with the beginning of his offending. Times, Sunday Times
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome is a self-limiting condition once the offending agent has been discontinued.
He added that the crimes were ‘typical of the offending pattern of people that depend on regular money to feed drug habits.’
He apologizes for his comments and says he had no intention of offending the community.
The therapist is guided in conducting individual and conjoint sessions not only with nonoffending family members, but also with the offending family member.
The problem would be as much the risk of disparaging the concept of Tibet as it would be a risk of offending China.
She is a shrewd politician who wants to avoid offending the electorate unnecessarily.
As this condition is intertwined with recidivist criminality, any health-led strategy implies medicalisation of offending with no clear boundary between criminal justice and health services.
The ‘something’ used to be gin and bitter lemon - which some friends viewed as unmanly and one, the late poet Ian Hamilton, would only order if Barnes uttered the name of the offending mixer.
A senior Tory has risked offending the party's grassroots support by describing members opposing the party's change of direction under David Cameron as "backwoodsmen". Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
The result was a most deplorable tragedy, by which an estimable and unoffending lady was killed by a rifle bullet.
And I assure you that it feels damned sweet to hit the offending smacker back. Are You Ready to Indulge Yourself?
Swipe a dryer sheet across the offending hairs to tamp down flyaways.
On these occasions the offending clerks were brought across to the church, where the Archbishop in full pontificals would hear their avowal of guilt in the nave, and then solemnly divest them of their robes and of their office at the west door. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric
Finding a way to prevent young people from being drawn into a life of continued offending is of prime importance.
The offending article and my good self were relegated to the sin bin for a very long time.

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