How To Use Offense In A Sentence

As a life-long Sox fan, Thomma professed deep offense at being put in the Cubs section when he blogged: ...in a crime against nature, your correspondent - a genuine White Sox fan, a man who attended his first twi-night double header at the Old Comiskey in 1963, who sat behind third base for the 50th anniversary All Star Game there in '83--has been assigned a seat in the Cubs section. Archive 2008-11-25
The attitude of sex offense and the examination of mass media were the topics less to be reported lately.
Reliable statewide estimates of the specific offense distribution of California's probationers are not available.
The author went from from a condemning avengeful God to a milch toast, permissive parent who forgives all offenses AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
The first offense will result in disqualification of the shooter from the event.

He showed his athletism by becoming the Bearkats 'all-time leader in total offense with 6,159 yards and finished second in the nation in the Football Championship Subdivision with 354.2 total yards per game as a senior. Undefined
When we gave Eli his big contract, we needed him to go from above-average/pretty good to very good, and to make the leap from a steward of a good offense to someone who could carry the offense by himself. Greg Hanlon: Ungiantlike: Eagles 45 - Giants 38
The treatment process and efficacy, judicial program evaluation, establishing assessment tools, sex offense prevention education, and treatment program evaluation were popular topics recently.
The offense struggled to sustain drives last year and must get better on third down.
Minnesota's offense showed improvement last week, with their quarterback leading a rout of the Saints.
The team's vast improvement can be traced to a more balanced offense, which complements an improving defense.
In 1998 and 1999, a 17-year-old male held at Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center in Powhatan County was investigated by state police for sex offenses with female staff there. Female Prison Staff Offenders in Two-thirds of Sexual Assaults | Impact Lab
I wonder if she'd take offense if I ask her to put on a snowsuit.
Gasol showed more aggressiveness from the start on offense, pushing the ball to the basket against rookie Andreas Glyniadakis, at one point beating him off the dribble from the foul line for a dunk. USATODAY.com - Basketball - Seattle vs. Memphis
However, conviction of a single misdemeanor ( minor offense ) have no effect on a student's immigration status.
All he is doing is saying things the cons don't agree with - last time I looked, that wasn't a bannable offense, at least not here.
I'm going to sit down and talk with the offense, defense, special teams, and let them know what I think my niche is and where I should be spending my time," Haywood said. Miami (Ohio) - Team Notes
Stock Commissioners to do away with the inspectorship at Medora, but the Committee, too, was wary of giving offense. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
He was daring and intelligent, produced huge plays and scared defenses with his orchestration of the offense.
Their team had a poor offense.
As the offense team monitored the threat rings we were flying through, the copilot saw a missile at our 4 o'clock.
If you were one of the 16,300 fans who drove through the late autumn mist to sit on those unforgiving wood bleachers on Saturday afternoon, you probably didn't know that the Jayhawks were under the weather, and you probably would have watched the first half and assumed "the crud" was the name of KU's new offense. KansasCity.com: Front Page
A globe-trotting, business-building commerce secretary, he operated on the theory that a good defense is a good offense.
The Tasmanian devil is small, but stocky and muscular and leads the GTMS Team Australia attack. This beast shows no mercy against his opponents and is on the offense always.
In fact, to read through most rap lyrics is to wonder which adults or political constituencies wouldn't take offense.
Don't take offense to that comment, I have just always wanted to use the word shill in a sentance. From The Editors Desk: Concerning Links
That leads to some one-on-one opportunities for Hammer, and that's no good for an offense.
Hitchcock began with three scoreless innings, long enough for the offense to give him a 3-0 lead.
His lack of mobility and limited lateral movement were major detriments for the Jets' offense in 2003, when offensive coordinator Paul Hackett took repeated and unwarranted hits for his play design.
She later claimed that she did not realize she was committing an offense.
The Dallas Cowboys' offense was ice-cold in the first half.
Singapore still considers graffiti an offense punishable by flogging.
Unintentional ignorance can diminish or even remove the imputability of a grave offense. The Volokh Conspiracy » Ann Coulter, Christian Chauvinist:
The problem with Tampa Bay's offense is it lacks the team speed to be effective.
The assessment will also identify modifications that can be made in those systems to improve their cost-effectiveness and reduce the risk of re-offense in conformance with justice, public safety and constitutional requirements.
And they do not trip over the word darkie, which obviously is no longer a word that any of us would care to use; it doesnt give them any offense. The Lyrics And Legacy Of Stephen Foster
Whether or not he testified on the issue of guilt or innocence or as to matters in extenuation or mitigation, the accused may make an unsworn statement to the court in mitigation or extenuation of the offenses of which he stands convicted, but the right to make such an unsworn statement does not permit the filing of the affidavit of the accused. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10214
In a triangle offense, shooting and passing skills are must-haves for the center.
Participants in the high-power group considered the misreporting of travel expenses to be a significantly worse offense.
No offense meant, but you don't strike me as the type he would trouble himself about.
The number of juveniles arrested for drug-related offenses has increased 80 percent in the last seven years.
Sputtering offense again plagued the Demon Deacons, as it did when they were beaten by Maryland last week in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. USATODAY.com
Neither offense could do much more while the rain pounded the ground. USATODAY.com
To be fair to Bodin, the offenses poured out against him by his malicious contemporaries at the time of his adhesion to the League should be analyzed and understood historically.
Another 1995 law made the laundering of money from drug trafficking a serious criminal offense.
There is a statute and common law offense known as embracery, which is defined to consist "in such practices as lead to affect the administration of justice, _improperly working upon the minds of jurors_. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
A powerful bloc of 57 Islamic states is again pushing for the UN to make it a criminal offense to criticise or 'defame' Islam. The Economist: Correspondent's diary
The quick offense ` ` kind of relaxes everybody into the game, '' Hamilton said. USATODAY.com
But the offense I take to this article, and your decision to publish it, is not really even related to my profession or my work with Hayes or Jonathan Groff (also singled out in the article as too 'queeny' to play 'straight')". All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
_ Nothing is an adiaphoron when confession and offense are involved. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
Any false verbal, written or physical claim to the medal is a federal felony offense. RICHARD O WILLICH
They get arrested for sleigh-knapping, which is a serious offense in these parts. New England Sleigh Ride
He's a good fit for the offense, predicated on pounding the ball in the running game and hitting big strikes off play-action.
Does the listener take offense if the remark is a knee-jerk one? Jennie Nash: The Making of a Novel: My Characters' Religion
And when I say that, please understand I mean no offense to the ghost of the 70s comedian.
But all that earst seemd sweet seemes now offense, Fowre Hymnes
A total of 12 Super Bowl winners have placed among the top five in offense or defense.
The rest of the players on offense had to adjust to the change in personality under center.
With last week's performance of 382 yards passing, 20 yards rushing and four touchdown passes, Fitz should be out to once again impress the pundits and fans who doubted his ability to turn this offense around. Alyssa Jung: Could Bills-Chiefs Be the Game?
The Eagles pass defense outgained the Dallas pass offense.
She seldom smiles and takes offense at the least excuse, crying rivers of tears and wailing.
Spring focus: Burks was the key to an offense that helped the Giants compile baseball's best regular-season record.
The American Law Institute recently revised the Model Penal Code's sentencing provisions, calling for a renewed commitment to proportionality based on the gravity of offenses, the "blameworthiness" of offenders, and the "harms done to crime victims. Walker on Herbert Wechsler, the Model Penal Code, and the Uses of Revenge
The offense has been an absolute yawner through two games.
That deserves its own form of recognition in law, and 'treason' is the offense which best captures it. Azeem Ibrahim: UK Law Should Recognize That Terrorists Aren't Just Criminals, They're Traitors
He is sure to maintain his heavy role within the offense under new coach Sidney Lowe.
The grand jury presented many offenses.
Irons watched his understudies from the sidelines with a sprained toe and ankle, though the offense appeared to limp more than him at times. USATODAY.com - College Football - Buffalo vs. Auburn
In speaking of criminal justice it states that the punishment should be ‘proportionate to the gravity of the offense’ and that it may avail to expiate the guilt of the offender.
Not the less soured by these multiplied causes of irritation, from the reflection that they were attributable to his own follies and vices, he gave full scope to his resentments, and indulged himself in expressions of angry reproach against what he termed the ingratitude of his country, which provoked those around him, and gave great offense to Congress. Life and Times of Washington
Just the thought of Williams returning to invigorate the offense is enough to get people talking.
My advice for next year is to avoid leagues that penalize players for having too large a role in the offense.
Any offense that causes a breach in relationships simply cannot be overlooked.
The offense still is one of the league's best with WRs Ed McCaffrey and Rod Smith having banner seasons.
The best defense against being Google anonymous is a good offense.
Third offense calls for banishment from the island forever. Ella Minnow Pea (copy)
On offense, the team lacks playmakers, and the approach has been too conservative.
He got a six-year jail sentence, a harsh punishment for a first offense.
Virginia (5-4, 3-2) had its four-game winning streak end, and in heartbreaking fashion, too, after shutting down the ACC's best scoring offense until the very end. USATODAY.com
Some ppl have called me a "chihuahua" which I take offense, but gladly welcome myself as the pest against their redundant shibboleth and lies. Time to Hit Back Harder
The paper proposes some typical decision models of tactical activities in two-vs-two engagement: the cooperation of leader and wingman, defense and offense, weapon launch etc.
Page 110 such offense by said ordinance; and no amercement, fine, penalty, forfeiture, escheat, bond, or recognizance, accruing or enuring, in whole or in part, to the State of Ordinances and constitution of the state of Alabama: with the constitution of the provisional government and of the Confederate States of America
I did make a bad choice in stereotypical language about men - for which I apologize to all who took offense at that. Both Comment Responses In One
Anatoli Natan Sharansky was twenty-nine years old when he was seized by the Russian secret police, the KGB, taken to Lefortovo prison, stripped naked and searched, and told that he was being charged with treason, a capital offense. BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL
The Raiders once again wilted as the game progressed, struggling to stop San Diego's high-powered offense and generating only one first down in the first 22 minutes of the half. USATODAY.com
The new law could also be used to interdict professional work if the offense was linked to it, for example, in cases of medical doctors abusing or unjustifiably prescribing narcotics.
These people supposedly cherished cursor keys and took deep offense at their absence on Macintosh.
I'm nostalgic for the days when perjury was an impeachable offense.
Sure, but the best defensemen and goaltenders would be up against the best of the offense.
To overlook , forgive, or disregard ( an offense ) without protest or censure.
This scrote has committed seventy offenses for a total of ten years sentence time.
Both women were convicted of minor nonviolent drug offenses.
As Sir Benjamin told Parliament, this was gender inequality, for men convicted of the same offenses were no longer subject to drawing and quartering and ‘women should not receive a more dreadful punishment than men’.
Just as last year's title shined a well deserved light on the quality of San Francisco's starting rotation, this year's failure to return to the postseason should do the same to the team's anemic offense. SI.com
Finally, probationers with less extensive histories of legal involvement for drug-related offenses are potentially at higher risk for psychiatric symptoms.
Mr. Rich, as solicitor general, I appoint you and Mr. Cromwell to head a commission of oyer and terminer to investigate whether these offenses be true. The Tudors: King Takes Queen
It is more of a defense and offense attack combined.
The penalty is a $250 fine for the first offense.
The Bhagavat Purana is full of stories of individuals who were ready to forgive the perpetrator for even the most grievous of offenses. Gadadhara Pandit Dasa: My Religion Is Better Than Yours
Heresy was a crime against the state. Roman law in the Code of Justinian made it a capital offense.
Nearly three fourths of women incarcerated in federal prisons in 1998 were charged with drug offenses.
Ever since the loss of his father's Korrigane he had been sour and uncommunicative, ready to take offense at the slightest comment. COASTLINERS
For second offenses, trainers will be prohibited from entering horses at the track for 15 days.
By revitalizing the oft-dormant offense, McNair once again legitimized the Ravens as Super Bowl contenders. NFL season rewind: Team MVPs
Ria Ramkissoon, 21, also known as “Princess Marie,” additionally is charged with child abuse, reckless endangerment and other offenses in the death of 21-month-old Javon Thompson. Woman in cult charged in starvation death of her son
However, the same offense might be either a misdemeanor or a felony, depending on its degree.
I shot the sheriff, and they say it is a capital offense.
Being announced in pregame introductions with the first-team offense isn't necessarily reflected on the stats sheet.
Otherwise from the other offenses this guy commited [home invasion?!] it sounds like he'll be in jail for quite some time without this charge anyway. Michigan Hunter Rescued, Then Charged
Salinger concludes that this was likely because “magistrates did not place drunkenness high on their list of offenses warranting prosecution.” A Renegade History of the United States
The Chargers would like another big run stuffer on defense and a versatile player on offense.
Faught is guilty of this offense, but the sin is a venial one.
However, the offense will retain its basic form, a fact with which Abdul-Jabbar is comfortable.
She expresses only disappointment in him and offense at his coldness to her during the last phone conversation.
For example, my personal offenses against prose include overuse of the phrases; however, for example, and actually.
Mclairs83 no offense .. lady drivers should not be on the road. but behind his car got 3 cars buang Hais, how's your gf bro now? Www.hardwarezone.com.sg
Washington's dismissal deals another blow to the offense after slotback Marcus Curry, who tied for the team lead in receptions last season, left the academy in May after he was dismissed from the team for detrimental conduct. Mario Washington dismissed from the academy
While I think that allowing the disjunction is the easiest fix, I suspect that the heart of the problem is in the definition of offenses. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Strange Practice of Indicting in the Conjunctive:
If you've been fired because of some horrible offense, this may be a moot point.
But at some point, doesn't it make sense to ask if dropping that kind of hammer is equal to the offense? When Common Sense and NY State Politics Collide: The Wine Bag Issue
Both stand accused of plunder, an offense punishable by death.
Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude; never selfish, not quick to take offense.
And no offense to Lemon, but he always had smiling himbo written all over his forehead. CNN's Don Lemon, unplugged
Although they developed this model for the adult criminal justice system, with its elaborate gradations of offenses and levels of appeals, their framework can be applied to juvenile justice as well.
I appear to have caught the tone of this New York Times article from 1877, describing the idiom and the practice, in the context of the forcible ejection from the halls of government of one Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, for the offense of ... wearing trousers. I'm making some wine from the grapes of wrath
Twilight fan! on Jun 20, 2008 ok yea they should totally switch the actors for edward and jacob. lik i know that they fit apperance wise their characters but Stephanie Meyers makes Edward seem really hot and the guy playing him (wasnt he in goblet of fire? the guy who dies?) really isnt that good of like a looker. no offense or anything. i love the books and hope the movie turns out really go. Twilight's First Official Photo and Why I'm Passing « FirstShowing.net
Punishment was meted out to suit the offense; once it had been administered, the account was squared, and no wise clan lord or war leader continued to hold the past against his followers.
Stanford 31 - Oklahoma State 31, 5:12 4th Quarter: As the Stanford offense takes the field on their own 31, tight end Coby Fleener is on the sideline with an injury. Oklahoma State 41, Stanford 38 - as it happened! | Michael Solomon
For language, I'd almost always leave it in, unless it was something that would clearly give offense.
In the past month, the team has added four new starters on offense and perhaps two more on defense, effectively plugging the holes left from a turbulent offseason.
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. Rene Descartes
Children will profit from drill in and out of school in the science of avoiding offense and of giving happiness, but unless the categories -- _acts that give offense_ and _acts that give happiness_ -- are wide enough to include the main acts committed in the normal relations of son, companion, employer, husband, father, and citizen, those who set out to avoid alcohol and tobacco find themselves ill equipped to carry the obligations of a temperate, law-abiding citizen. Civics and Health
Kidnapping crime includes two concrete composing items : racketeered offense and illegal imprison offense.
Once convicted of either of these offenses, a defendant is subject to any number of sentences including having his name registered in a sex offender hotline; having his name registered with the local authorities and published to the community; or serving the sentence in a center for the treatment of sex offenders. Raw Law
It is a capital offense to inadvertently kill someone while attempting suicide.
Tensing, his annoyance growing, Ikeda huffed at her statement in disagreement, beginning to feel incensed at the offense to his partner.
Ninety-nine times out of 100 when I have heard Mexicans use the word 'gringo' it's in a way that is deprecatory or worse, usually preceded by 'pinche' -- in other words, designed to be taken as an offense. GRINGOS AND GRINGAS....what's in an appelation?
Both stand accused of plunder, an offense punishable by death.
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. Rene Descartes
Almost a century earlier, the Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment prohibits “greatly disproportioned” sentences and stated that “it is a precept of justice that punishment for crime should be graduated and proportioned to the offense.” The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
And then the lower tier, class C, which comprise non-arrestable offenses, are steroids and tranquilizers, benzodiazepines and so on.
Frye is a double threat on offense; a solid perimeter shooter with a fearless streak.
The loss of Bolden is a blow, but the offense should still be one of the best in the league. Purdue - Team Notes
In those buried and bygone days, it was an affront and an offense to join with separatists to defeat a corrupt government.
And this, it may be added, is now the ordinary acceptance of the word; to "atone" is to give satisfactlon, or make amends, for an offense or an injury. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
The scorning of the tribes is an offense to the natural order in the minds of many there.
Almost a century earlier, the Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment prohibits “greatly disproportioned” sentences and stated that “it is a precept of justice that punishment for crime should be graduated and proportioned to the offense.” The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
The team thinks using a fullback makes the offense predictable.
Reports of major crimes such as arsons, adult sex offenses and felonious assaults, however, increased. The Independent Home RSS
In fact, if you have called me on the phone recently and noticed that I seemed distracted, take no offense.
Every act constituting torture under the Convention constitutes a criminal offense under the law of the United States.
Causation is also and element of every offense , It becomes part of the actus reus whenever the crime requires a result , such as shoplifting A prosecutor has two steps to prove causation .
IS this a JOKE???? ... no offense to Amy Adams who is wonderful but I can't see herp ulling this off in a million years ..... Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories
Those war plans rested on a belief in the ineluctable superiority of the offense over the defense.
While Jackson struggled, Martin Zeno and reserve Tanner Ogden kept the Red Raiders 'offense going. USATODAY.com - Scores
The book might be published without creating offense.
The Bears are going to have work on their offense this season.
Bulger should only get better with more experience and more exposure to a complex offense.
At one point in the third quarter, as the Sonics were bringing the ball downcourt on offense, he took his mouthpiece out as he crossed half court so he could start spewing smack at Collins the rest of the way.
It shouldnt be a disfellowshipping offense anyway. I'm Perfect, You're Doomed
Cleveland has a lot of defensive problems and needs the offense to be on the same page to outscore opponents.
Like any good football team, America needed a good offense and a good defense during the war.
a bailable offense
The game started with both offenses moving the ball well only to have field goal attempts sail wide.
Similarly, Harris County is the only big county in the state where, for first time drug possession offenders caught with less than a gram of a controlled substance - cases in which courts are mandated to give probation on the first offense - prosecutors routinely seek and get jail time in the county hoosgow as a condition of probation. Grits for Breakfast
They wanted to watch the films before explaining how Seattle ripped off 554 yards of offense.
Twenty-seven-year-old Kareem Clea was arrested Thursday and charged with first-degree murder and numerous other offenses. Arrest in Md. insurance slaying: Police
Mr. Jay (who lives by supplying the newspapers with short paragraphs relating to accidents, offenses, and brief records of remarkable occurrences in general -- who is, in short, what they call a penny-a-liner) told his landlord that he had been in the city that day and heard unfavourable rumours on the subject of the joint-stock banks. Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Detective Stories
However, when such a commander is also empowered to convene courts-martial and has only an official interest in the disposition of the case, it is customary for him to direct an officer of his command to make a preliminary inquiry into the suspected offense and to prefer appropriate charges if the facts shown by such inquiry should warrant the preferring of charges. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10214
Britain had decriminalized homosexual acts in private between consenting adults in the Sexual Offenses Act 1967.
The Penguins had all the makings of a Cup contender: a lethal offense, good goaltending, and good coaching.
As the offense team monitored the threat rings we were flying through, the copilot saw a missile at our 4 o'clock.
But the case was abandoned Thursday after magistrates found he had not committed a criminal offense.
A globe-trotting, business-building commerce secretary, he operated on the theory that a good defense is a good offense.
Phoenix's offense was in rhythm from the start as the Suns jumped out to a 27-22 lead after the first quarter. National Basketball Association - Lakers vs. Suns
The team will need contributions from some of its younger players on offense.
If the evidence at the preliminary hearing supports a new or different charge, the court may bind the case over to the appropriate court on the new or different offense.
And violence by a husband toward his wife is one obvious offense to the integrity of human life.
Apostasy is not a clearly defined criminal offense, but it is one of about six so-called crimes against God hadd, plural hudud for which the Quran sets out specified punishments, including the death penalty. Human Rights Watch: Malaysia: Don't Send Saudi Back -- Faces Likely Death Sentence for Twitter Post
Because the team lacks playmakers, Ware's role on offense might be expanded.
Bennett is a potentially pivotal figure in the offense.
As a side note though, considering that that lady was a military brat (and I mean no offense by this), I would've loved to know what she said/did when she jumped out of her car and grabbed the aides 'horsewhip. WE ARE NOT HAPPY
On this particular disc, though, there is an offense for which there is no exoneration.
Yes, I'd even say it has the edge over London - no offense of course.
A drawing of King William at the top of this broadsheet, rocking on a wooden hobby horse, might have caused some offense in loyalist circles.
It is not like jaywalking, which is a civil traffic offense. Truth Wins Out » Blog
He has the speed, patience and quick burst necessary to make the cutback runs that are integral to the offense.
Most importantly, they kept the high-octane Kansas City offense off the field.
I have a better feel for the offense.
In effect Gingrich pleaded guilty to both offenses while seeking to minimize their importance.
Presuming to criticize a dragonrider is the most dangerous offense against discretion. Dragon Drums
Importantly, attorneys for the PCGS argue that coin doctoring is not just a civil offense, a racket and a breach of contract. Coin Rarities & Related Topics: Defining Coin Doctoring and Dipping, Additions to the PCGS Lawsuit Against Alleged Coin Doctors : Coin Collecting News
The infantry have for their defense a breast plate of iron, and for offense a lance nine armlengths long, which they call a pike, and a sword at their side, rather round in the point than sharp. The Art of War
So if he is not extremely vigilant throughout his house and grounds, he may be caught with a hundred dollar fine, OR be imprisoned three months in the House of Correction at the pleasure of the magistrate!! and for every subsequent offense may be _imprisoned in the House of Correction_ as much as one year, and then required to give security for obeying the law. Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6
Trying to bar all acknowledgments of religion by government officials in the name of preventing offense to listeners seems to me more illiberal than liberal.
The coaches must get the offense in a productive mode after last season's dismal performance.
That new form of legislation, most clearly found in the application of lenient punishments minutely calibrated to the severity of offenses, is designed to do two things, which find their way into Bentham's numerous defenses of new legislation to replace transportation and capital punishment with humane incarceration — legislation aimed at increasing the Romantic Fear
His offenses against the Peronistas up to that time had apparently consisted of little more than adding his signature to pro-democratic petitions, but shortly after his resignation he addressed the Argentine Society of Letters saying, in his characteristic style, “Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.” Jorge luis borges | the destiny of borges « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
The defendant's lawyer argued that his past offenses were irrelevant to this case.
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