To offend – and to know the nature of those who offend you.
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Q. So when we're talking about these statistical factors — that more men re-offend than women, Hispanics offend more than blacks or whites, people from the low socioeconomic groups offend more than people from the higher socioeconomic groups, people who have opiate addiction or alcohol abuse offend more often than those who don't, people who have less education offend more often than those who have — do all those things cause people to offend?
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So not only did he not offend the law, there was no real law to offend.
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You're very likely to offend some North Carolina voters, and it's possible that you will offend them all.
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I didn't want to offend her, I didn't want to offend fans of hers in Australia, because she is an icon.
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While the images are meant to offend ISIS, known for preaching modesty, they might also offend people who have no affiliation with the group whatsoever.
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"In a free country you have the right to offend people — I offend people in this house all the time" said Sir Edward Leigh, a Conservative backbencher.
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And generally of all other things, so thou offend no man privately, no man shall offend thee, which undoubtedly is one principal cause that draweth so many strangers thither.
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"We have to find ways to make that first offense more meaningful to the offenders so they don't offend again or don't offend the first time," Evers told WISC-TV on Wednesday.
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First, they should compare Trump's statements and policy proposals that might offend Americans of Mexican heritage or Muslim faith with his statements and policy proposals that might offend members of many other groups.
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He's a traveling clown looking to offend social justice warriors.
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We went back and forth about who we might offend.
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You offend me whilst claiming to want to protect women!
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How hard is it not to offend someone with booze?
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It doesn't offend him, he claims, but it still happens.
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Realbotix can and does offend on any number of fronts.
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This show has the potential to radicalize and to offend.
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Kanye West doesn't care if his political leanings offend you.
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Thank you for speaking up, our intention wasn't to offend.
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This marketing campaign was never intended to offend any consumers.
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If profanities offend, best turn down the sound for this.
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That's why, like I say, we never want to offend.
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"I would obviously never want to offend anyone," she said.
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So sorry to anyone with a beard this may offend.
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My concern was if I was going to offend anybody.
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If these offend you, Rage Yoga is not for you.
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It is certainly never our intent to offend our customers.
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He fired up liberals, but he also didn't offend moderates.
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Videos that contain graphic content can shock, offend and upset.
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And to offend them was evidence that you were winning.
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It certainly was never the Academy's intent to offend anyone.
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Let the other reporters learn not to offend His Honor.
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He feels so bad for everyone that he did offend.
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Never my intention to offend anyone who has suffered grievously.
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"Did not mean to offend by quoting Churchill," he wrote.
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We're here to play basketball and not to offend anybody.
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We had no intention to hurt and offend Mrs. Trump.
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Can you recommend a series that isn't likely to offend?
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But Justice Alito said the court's ruling could offend Mexico.
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I offend your sense of decorum and I enjoy it.
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When the interviewer asked Peterson what gave him the right to offend transgendered people about their self-referential pronoun choices, Peterson asked what right she (and, we can infer, transgendered people) had to offend him.
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What gives you the right to offend others, I've been asked.
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Donald Trump can offend, threaten, flip-flop and be downright nuts.
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Is it possible to exhibit provocative art and offend no one?
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Did Toyota really spend $100,000 on that campaign to offend women?
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Mr Adityanath has managed to offend many of his fellow citizens.
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It is not my job or thought process to offend anybody.
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And to not serve wine, again so as not to 'offend'?
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However, the details of Mr Renzi's design offend against democratic principles.
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On occasion, the government itself seems equally eager not to offend.
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I had no intention to offend any Jew in the diaspora.
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It's a small group of really violent men that do offend.
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" To not offend the Iranian president, he wrote, "we offended ourselves.
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Better get dressed and offend some humourless cunts I suppose. pic.twitter.
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I didn't do this for shock factor or to offend anybody.
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In no way did I mean to offend anyone last night.
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But I don't think of how my hat will offend people.
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I think it would probably offend me if I were Russian.
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An unwillingness to offend could lead to blood on the streets.
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You sacrifice sharing your true opinion so as not to offend.
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Courts do not want to offend state prosecutors by acquitting people.
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Does it offend you when people joke about Tourette in general?
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If they anger or personally offend him, all bets are off.
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His unspoken point, we think ... why offend a drug cartel leader?
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The things I wanted to do with him didn't offend them.
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He said he did not intend to offend or dishonor anyone.
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"We don't want to offend anybody too much," Ms. Butler said.
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But Mr. Trump's comments also offend some veterans and military experts.
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The congressman said Sunday that he was not intending to offend.
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Never was it my intention to hurt or offend anyone , ever.
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"It certainly wasn't meant to offend," Ms. Dungey said this month.
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He said he didn't want to offend anyone with his protest.
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Freedom of speech shouldn't be misunderstood to be freedom to offend.
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The last thing I would ever want is to offend anyone.
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White looks clean and is unlikely to offend a potential buyer.
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To normalize its use is to give people license to offend.
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You can even throw martinis at people who really offend you.
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Please know that this post was not meant to lecture or offend.
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How did you offend them, and how did you handle it afterwards?
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He intended to offend [Holiday] because of the color of his skin.
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Ours were fun and playful — they were never meant to offend anyone.
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We were not there to offend or make the community feel disempowered.
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The firm did not set out to offend China, the employee believes.
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Television guests have poppies thrust upon them, lest their absence offend viewers.
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I don't mean to offend people, but apparently, I keep doing it.
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You're not going to offend anyone, you're not going to thrill anyone.
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" He added that he doesn't believe Davidson "goes out to offend people.
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They offend those who see international arbitration panels as undermining American sovereignty.
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I do a charcoal mask so my pores don't offend anyone tomorrow.
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When Twitter shuts down parody accounts because they might offend public figures.
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Sorochinski: A lot of serial offenders offend against acquaintances and dating partners.
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Does it offend you when people use "king" and "queen" like that?
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The image could potentially offend many in the Jewish community, she said.
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"The Trump tape shouldn't offend you on behalf of females," Noah said.
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And you wouldn't want to offend anyone by asking for more money.
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I felt hurt for [Steph], and I didn't mean to offend anybody.
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We sincerely apologize as we absolutely had no intention to offend anyone.
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I would never want to offend ANYONE, as my words clearly did.
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I believe this novel will offend as many readers as it captivates.
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They know they have to work together and don't want to offend.
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The test predicts the defendant's flight risk and tendency to re-offend.
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As a Trump surrogate, Mr. Gutierrez is not the first to offend.
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Gone was the swagger, the bone-crushing handshake, the willingness to offend.
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A lot of us are constantly wondering, Did I offend that person?
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I didn't want to upset or offend him, or make him sad.
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The bit did indeed offend people, including Constance Wu and Jeremy Lin.
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" He explained, "There's something for everybody—and there's something to offend everybody.
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"I did not want to offend anybody," he said through an interpreter.
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In this world, the aberrant and the monstrous don't offend but entertain.
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"I didn't want to offend him," Ms. Vena-Mondt, now 70, said.
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People on the prosocial end are less likely to offend against children.
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If you are attempting to offend me, please spell your insults correctly.
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But the last thing I ever want to do is offend anyone.
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I don't want to offend my mother, but this is my family.
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And free speech to me is completely meaningless if you can't offend.
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The act of hunting becomes mere background to the desire to offend.
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Oakley said he had no idea what he said to offend Dolan.
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Mr. Crowder said he had not intended the comments to offend anybody.
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Afghanistan is not the place where one wants to gratuitously offend anyone.
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This kind of baseless comparison does little other than inflame and offend.
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People leave prison and they offend again because they have no support.
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A couple of millennia later, the middle finger's power to offend endures.
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There is no excuse for bad behavior or comments that offend anyone.
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But we just don't run on them because we're afraid to offend people.
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"I don't want to offend anyone, I just want to make them smile."
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" Trump later said, "The people we offended were people we wanted to offend.
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Even people who are otherwise well-meaning can inadvertently offend with their assumptions.
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Beijing has long used different methods to punish foreign corporations that offend it.
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That, as a white boy, he can offend and harm with little consequence.
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It was not my intention to offend anyone…I've done some soul-searching.
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" In this video she said, "I definitely didn't mean to offend all Egyptians.
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I didn't intent to offend anybody or give it to anybody in particular.
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" It also added, "Lenses are meant to be playful and never to offend.
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That doesn't mean just go for it, because you're going to offend everyone.
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The last thing we ever intended to do was offend or alienate vegetarians.
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It is not just the disgusting nature of such remarks that should offend.
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Google execs were reportedly even concerned it might offend people with its vulgarity.
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Luann de Lesseps did not intend to offend anybody with her Halloween costume.
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Either way, Vogue eventually apologized, explaining it did not mean to offend anyone.
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Certainly we were not intentionally being insensitive, or to offend in any manner.
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Why should it offend me if that person questions the established scientific fact?
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And that should offend every American, no matter what party you belong to.
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Her strategy is simple: Give inmates valuable skills so they don't re-offend.
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I offend easily, and am ready to throw down at the slightest provocation.
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His base is made up of the evangelicals this story will likely offend.
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Simply put, hate speech laws ban certain types of speech that offend others.
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If you're not a snitch, it won't offend you if I search you!
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But over the course of his presidency, he came to offend many more.
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It is a beer drinking tournament, not a means to offend other cultures.
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Does the sound hurt our ears, or does the meaning offend our sensibilities?
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Nor did it offend the Blue Jays, who were bystanders in the quarrel.
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But Spicy says that he and his partner didn't mean to offend anyone.
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They are pushing and doing everything they can to offend the Latino population.
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"I was never good at realizing what might offend someone anyway," he writes.
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I meant no harm and did not mean to offend anyone at all.
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But she had a point that extended beyond her uncharacteristic reluctance to offend.
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"I wasn't really trying to defend or offend anyone," Clarkson told the host.
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He had to ask a question that he worried might offend the man.
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This column may offend everyone, from Trump enthusiasts to liberals who decry them.
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And I'm not going to try to offend anybody in terms of privacy.
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If he's regularly making comments that offend women, management should want to know.
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We state that you cannot offend groups of people and discriminate against them.
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"A question arises, did these caricaturists need to offend Islamic believers?" he said.
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"No matter which athlete they choose, they will offend some customers," Adamson said.
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Passage of anything like this bill would offend the laws of political gravity.
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How not to offend this man, this gatekeeper, who could anoint or destroy me?
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Like, I wholeheartedly withhold the rights to offend and be offended, and that's fine.
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Hollywood may not have intended to offend anyone, but the point is, he did.
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"We were trying to think of something that would offend the internet," Brag says.
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For valid reasons, we don't want to offend our students, colleagues or community members.
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I didn't mean to offend anybody and I'll make sure it doesn't happen again.
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It noted that freedom of expression extended to ideas which "offend, shock or disturb".
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"I didn&apost try to offend nobody," Gurriel said in Spanish through a translator.
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But the governor has apologized and said he never meant to offend the religion.
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The Congress government banned Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses," fearing it would offend Muslims.
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"I'll certainly look into it because I don't want to offend anybody," said Trump.
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Here's the thing: So many players felt it was their right to offend people.
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This line may offend the orthodox left, but it appeals to France's broad middle.
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" Kumail responded a short time later ... "Meghan, I did not mean to offend you.
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The word "Americanism" would offend many religious elites of today as chauvinistic and presumptuous.
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She will shrug off their audacity and wait until they're finished, rather than offend.
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"The people who were offended were people we wanted to offend," Trump said later.
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He uses his unconventional style to spread conservatism, offend "snowflakes" and promote free speech.
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Sometimes we talk about the past, but you try not to offend each other.
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Even if Marshall didn't mean to offend, however, he understands why people are upset.
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And they didn't want to offend their fellow Americans who helped fight for independence.
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That ought to offend all of us," he said on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront.
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"It was not our intent to disappoint or offend anyone," the Phoenix university said.
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The interviewer, Cathy Newman, asked what gave him the right to offend transgender people.
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I suspect someone like Kasich, who wouldn't offend Hispanics, could have fared better there.
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That's especially important to everyone concerned about the number of juveniles who re-offend.
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Beck's countersuit adds that Lahren's "word choice on air" repeatedly threatened to offend viewers.
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Because what can you write that doesn't offend people or doesn't make people mad?
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And in Thailand, Facebook regularly removes any posts that could offend the royal family.
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The website may be slightly silly, but it could also offend particularly patriotic Americans.
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His words may offend, but their actions threaten the orderly conduct of our elections.
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Lesser acts with little of the original idealism—remember Does It Offend You Yeah?
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"We didn't want to offend anyone," the station said in a translated Facebook post.
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I never meant to offend anyone and I was not referring to our players.
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Every immigration policy is bound to penalize and offend some people while rewarding others.
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They are socialized not to offend, to not make a scene, to go along.
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His threats against the news media (including even search engines) offend First Amendment values.
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Even too many vines growing on the wrong side of a fence can offend.
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I don't want to offend the person on the other end of the phone.
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" Mr. Trump, he said, is "managing to offend every swing voter in the country.
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If you're doing it right, in our minds, you're going to offend certain people.
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"We're here to play basketball and not to offend anybody," Mr. Fertitta told ESPN.
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Clinton's plans to continue giving Iran cold, hard cash will not just offend sensibilities.
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Once I was in a taxi, and another cabdriver did something to offend mine.
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Later, words related to sex and the body were the most likely to offend.
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"They mean to provoke or offend, and the meaning can come later," she said.
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So: How do you handle being among believers, wanting neither to deceive nor offend?
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Finally, the notion should offend the sensibilities of people even across the political spectrum.
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It was not my intention to offend anyone, much less discriminate against other cultures.
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My intention is never to offend my constituents or Jewish Americans as a whole.
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ST. IMIER, Switzerland — The label "old school" probably would not offend Walter von Känel.
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I fundamentally believe that the people behind the show did not mean to offend.
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" He adds, "I would never offend anyone and therefore chose to remove the image.
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I'm concerned the way we communicate will, at best, not resonate, and at worst, offend.
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So we decided to sleep in this disgusting crack house rather than offend the guy.
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You can even text with people in the movies and not offend the entire theater.
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If they fight too hard, they&aposre going to offend the blue-collar working class.
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And I talked with my team to make sure it wasn't going to offend everybody.
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But I understand that most people are probably not trying to offend or annoy me.
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We have go to all out and just offend them... Everything we do is [offensive].
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"Our intention was never to offend a particular individual or a community," Ganesh told Reuters.
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Never be sarcastic about race, religion, politics, or anything else that could easily offend someone.
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A nation-state law passed in July seemed designed to offend Israel's non-Jewish minorities.
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" Behind her, she could hear Wayne asking, "Did I say something to offend your girl?
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They are short on detail, could prove unworkable, and seem likely to offend many people.
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They will never offend your ears, even if the music actually calls for some offense.
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It was never our intention to offend anyone, and for this we are deeply sorry.
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Cory does not owe me an apology as he did not offend our personal friendship.
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Jacqueline points out that if the NFL could offend more people, they'd make more money.
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The title is a cruel trick: the page sets out to offend you even more.
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Or they may enlist the power of the state to silence speakers who offend them.
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But to say, 'You're bad, you offend me, this play cannot go on'—fuck you.
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Trump said on Monday that Clinton's comments are inaccurate, adding that they offend Native Americans.
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It's never our intent to offend any of our guests with the products we sell.
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You wouldn't want to offend your neighbors with a tangible demonstration of a strong opinion.
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It's not that she is trying to offend anyone, as some cable news hosts do.
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Whether it might offend anyone never came up; there were no women in the room.
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McCready's middle-of-the-road approach didn't offend any of the county's borderline conservatives' values.
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They flagrantly offend the values of our society and this institution, and we condemn them.
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It is almost impossible to offend me when your intent is to make a joke.
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They offend against the etiquette of modern liberalism and modern liberal governance, not the Constitution.
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So that you don't offend anyone, Ms. Oldham suggests having a short registry as well.
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Europeans have recognized being forgotten as a right, despite how that might offend American sensibilities.
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And Mr. Ramey said he "tried to do everything I could to offend" Mr. Yang.
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There are people who just want a clean kind of comedy that doesn't offend anybody.
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HUDSON I don't think Chris meant to offend, but it wasn't in any way appropriate.
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No matter what it does, Facebook invariably seems to offend one side or the other.
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But he suggested that he had done his best not to offend Cuban national pride.
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Yes, and our intention is never to offend or upset readers with gratuitous, unwanted visuals.
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Aguilera seems to have been chosen because female singers were thought to offend Islamist detainees.
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Celibacy used to offend family-values conservatism; now it offends equally against the opposite spirit.
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He said the new rules ensured ex-felons had proven they were unlikely to offend.
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More specifically, I was sure these revelations would offend enough women to sink his chances.
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Speech may not be banned even if it expresses ideas that offend, the court ruled.
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Presidential confabulation may offend or not, but it is not constrained by law as such.
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Jake said Logan didn't mean to offend anyone ... and hopes his big bro bounces back.
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My April Fools prank was in no way meant to offend women who struggle with that.
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Here's where Huckabee comes in, pulling no punches, not afraid to offend or ruffle some feathers.
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The school said teachers didn't intend to offend her and that the errors were honest mistakes.
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Well, sorry to offend your tastes, Mr. Fancy Wine Man, but rosé is here to stay.
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I apologized, explained it was never my intention to offend her, and we cleared the air.
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"Film or record all partisan manifestations that ... offend your freedom of thought or conscience," she urged.
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"I don't want to offend you with this one, but I love Hawaiian pizza," she says.
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The show hasn't even started, and Nick has already managed to offend quite a few people.
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For such magnificence to depend for its future on being instagrammable seems to offend against dignity.
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Pittenger's office also released a statement apologizing for comments, saying he didn't mean to offend anyone.
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And when I sent it out to my friends, I knew that it wouldn't offend anyone.
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And knowing that Disney Parks draw guests from across the globe, it's best not to offend.
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Like I said, if the unorthodox design doesn't offend you, the rest of the phone will.
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"When he cracks jokes, it was intended to make people laugh -- never to offend," Panelo added.
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His speech might be crass and offend some of the liberal elite but is he wrong?
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The first is psychological resistance: companies' reputations can suffer if they offend customers' sense of fairness.
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If it doesn't offend you maybe try to understand that it offends a lot of people.
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"Not only did this [column] offend many of our readers, it offended us," reads the post.
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The company pulled the gift wrap from its stores, saying it never intended to offend anyone.
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Overall he makes the case that people have a right, but not a duty, to offend.
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In England and Wales, nearly half of all prisoners re-offend within a year of release.
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"She does not want to offend his support, she wants to gain his support," he said.
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They decided that Noah, not Gasol, was the veteran whose pride they were willing to offend.
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Might Trump be being kept financially afloat by Russian oligarchs whom he cannot afford to offend?
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To defend another's right to offend, he said, doesn't mean you must join in that offense.
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If Mr. Obama felt pressure not to offend Turkey, he was not alone among world leaders.
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"My intention is never to offend my constituents or Jewish Americans as a whole," she said.
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I would happily buy her shoes if she needs them, but I don't want to offend.
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And it will surely offend those who still chafe at the idea of fictionalizing the Holocaust.
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The problem, of course, is that such amendments would almost by definition offend the party elites.
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Then she pushed his hand away, but nicely, gently, because she didn't want to offend him.
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Later in the debate, Trump once again took pride in his willingness to offend some sensibilities.
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But (they're) also probably quite nervous, (they) don't want to offend China either, they're the neighbor.
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"But I still very much hope I can offend at least a few people," he said.
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"Yes, that would offend me if that happened," said the 33-year member of the union.
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" She later posted an apology video, saying "I definitely didn&apost mean to offend all Egyptians.
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We deeply apologize for any misunderstanding, as it was absolutely not our intent to offend anyone.
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When it comes to a company rebrand, the last thing marketing teams want is to offend.
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" They continue, "The philosopher Ruwen Ogien defended the freedom to offend as essential to artistic creation.
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These fashion statements were clearly not designed to offend or degrade the cultures that influenced them.
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Rather than bland slogans designed not to offend, his campaign prefers red meat for the base.
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He has shaped his image as a reformer but taken care not to offend party elders.
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"If there's something I did to personally hurt you or offend you I'm sorry," she said.
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Siemens is usually a reliable investor in Russia, avoiding saying anything to offend the government there.
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The slaughter of Iraqi Shiites didn't offend Walid, for he saw them as enemies of Islam.
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The motives behind their crimes, too, are different from those of most adults who sexually offend.
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She said she told him that as someone from a military family, it didn't offend her.
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Many Republicans remain at arm's length, fearful that the president is erratic and prone to offend.
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"Draghi doesn't want to offend anyone in the ECB ahead of the September event," he said.
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If he attended, he said he was told, he might offend everybody by defending his book.
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"I can't even play Night Crawlers with him anymore because it will offend Jerry," Charlie says.
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Of course, this highlights another issue: Just because someone doesn't mean to offend doesn't mean they won't.
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Does it offend you when men use the word "bitch" and say stuff that sexually degrades women?
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U2 is really safe music that doesn't offend anyone and is great for tie-in charity campaigns.
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However, ensuring she does not offend users has been a challenge for the world's largest online retailer.
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The company behind Novichok Edition vodka said it never meant to offend, but rather "lighten the mood."
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It might offend some barbers, who could see it as a slight, and he wouldn't recommend it.
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And, the book itself — I don't want to offend Lovecraft fans — is kind of a stiff read.
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They purposefully offend people, and that's what they do, but a lot of people love that. Whatever.
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He spoke slowly, careful not to offend, but Chang is not the type to self-edit well.
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While this question from Kornbluth may not have meant to offend, it sure as hell was boring.
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It has scrambled to find ways in which tech firms might be deemed to offend existing doctrine.
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Sanders and Trump have adopted emotional tones that are going to offend and exhaust people over time.
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Media firms are anxious not to offend it; journalists who take it on often lose their jobs.
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We assure you it is never our intention to offend our guests with the merchandise we provide.
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It's a kid's movie through and through, designed to make you feel good and offend no one.
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The fairly innocuous ad aired during NBC's The Cosby Show, and it seemed unlikely to offend anyone.
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Pichai patiently explained what an algorithm was and how Google's algorithm had no reason to offend Republicans.
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I'm not wounded by these loot boxes, "Lock and Roll" doesn't offend me (beyond its terrible name).
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We can only hope to strike a compromise that does not offend our deep sensibility regarding safety.
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When he says those things, he's really not trying to offend people, it's just how he thinks.
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But if Digital Crafter meant for the joke to offend, it's working in at least one country.
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Yet somehow, in 2017, it still manages to offend many people — when it's on women, at least.
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Good rule in life: I try hard not to offend; I try harder not to be offended.
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By the 1960s, the often crude and bumbling Americans living in Turkish cities began to offend Turks.
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These barriers make it more likely for them to re-offend and end up back behind bars.
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Western governments did almost nothing in response, and, predictably, attacks on those who allegedly offend Islam continued.
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The fact that I would offend other people or hurt other people was definitely not the intent.
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Other newcomers were not aware that congregating and talking loudly at a grocery might offend Danish sensibilities.
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In a victim impact statement, she warned that the plea deal would embolden him to offend again.
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Even if they're not trying to offend, the meaning is clear: They're referring to people like me.
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Our goal is to allow users to express themselves freely as long as it doesn't offend others.
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President Trump's racism does not just offend our sensibilities; it fundamentally changes the character of this country.
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At least while they are enrolled in the scheme, only 0.2% of people re-offend, they say.
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Richmond insisted Thursday that he did not mean for his comments to offend or sound sexually suggestive.
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Alinsky was a colorful and controversial figure who managed to offend almost everyone during his long career.
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If you choose wrong, you offend said friend, and after two incorrect responses, the friend will leave.
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Meechan has since apologized for the video and insisted that he he didn't mean to offend anyone.
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I can make a million jokes that are going to make people laugh that won't offend them.
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Does this mean that the university can't have a meeting to discuss anything that might offend China?
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"I didn't try to offend anybody," Gurriel said — a phrase favored by offensive people through the ages.
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You need the meat equivalent of the Lands' End catalog, a familiar standard that's unlikely to offend.
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Most of President Trump's alleged transgressions offend against the etiquette of modern liberal governance, not the Constitution.
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"I just feel like I'm going to offend someone every time I open my mouth," he said.
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"It doesn't really offend us," he said, "until someone from, like, an outside town comes over here."
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Increasingly, Hollywood filmmakers have bowed to Chinese box-office pressures and removed material that could offend officials.
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Overstatements by opponents of donor privacy broadly insinuate these rights are sinister, which should offend most Americans.
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Some things are unmentionable and undebatable, but not because they offend the sensibilities of the sheltered young.
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Acosta's betrayal is "worthy of bipartisan outrage and should offend every American father and mother," Reyes wrote.
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Because I didn't value Facebook — or haven't for a long time — its missteps didn't particularly offend me.
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Trump, who has shown himself able to offend entire continents, seems incapable of offending the Israeli government.
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Always being too eager to offend can be as counterproductive as being too predictably zealous to appease.
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"No, of course not," I say holding myself close to the glass door afraid to offend him.
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You should avoid giving clothing items that require a size because you could offend someone, said Meier.
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Leonardo's "Salvator Mundi" may also offend the sensibilities and violate the rules of the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom.
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I worry so much that i might offend someone to the point i may just not talk.
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In an election year, members of Congress of any party are reluctant to offend 9/11 families.
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In 1999, the scene was likely easy to read as just risqué enough to amuse, not offend.
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I certainly didn't mean to offend anyone or cause any distress, or be disdainful in any way.
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Like males who offend, they can and do cause extreme physical and emotional damage to their victims.
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The former diplomat spoke candidly in exchange for anonymity so as to not to offend high-paying clients.
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Nike's decision, which a spokesman said was made to not offend people celebrating Independence Day, prompted Arizona Gov.
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"A law disfavoring 'ideas that offend' discriminates based on viewpoint, in violation of the First Amendment," she wrote.
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And so, yeah, I just hope that I don't offend anyone, but none of it was serious anyways!
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So my intention is never to offend anyone and I really, you know, apologize if I offended anyone.
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And how can I make sure I don't accidentally offend my Muslim friends and acquaintances during Ramadan celebrations?
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It sounds very unrealistic and is sure to offend at least half of our mothers' Bible study groups.
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After those arrests, the Russian government created a law that basically made it illegal to offend religious people.
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It is about helping people to understand the "triggers"—people, places and things—that prompt them to offend.
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She tried to avoid his calls and meetings, but maintained a friendly demeanor so she didn't offend him.
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Please know it takes a lot to offend us, particularly when the comments are coming from young children.
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There are reports that Apple TV+ showrunners were asked to make sure that their shows don't offend China.
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Speech may not be banned even if it expresses ideas that offend, the court ruled in that case.
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"We take feedback very seriously, and it was never our intention to offend anyone," spokesman Kris Charles said.
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Such a curb would offend the Anglo-Saxon tradition of individual liberty, including the right to be eccentric.
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It's angular, yes, but not so much as to offend the human eye or the laws of aerodynamics.
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I definitely don't think he goes out to offend people, but unfortunately that's what happened in this case.
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In a Tumblr post shared Sunday, PewDiePie addressed the controversy — and said he did not intend to offend.
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"I didn't want to offend any athlete with my words," Tarpischev said in a statement at the time.
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He commissioned life-sized bronze sculptures of couples having sex, just to offend his more-conservative brother Mohamed.
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The things that most anger, disgust, or offend us are relatively new in the grand scheme of history.
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Product changes will be reduced to the lowest common denominator, designed not to offend or appear too tyrannical.
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Two-thirds of male sex offenders will re-offend if they are not treated and restrained as criminals.
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After Italy demanded an apology, Macron said he had not meant to offend "Italy and the Italian people".
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Life After Ippon The discussion of karate styles is a sticky area where you will always offend someone.
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When you're interviewing for a job role, it's best that you don't completely offend the person interviewing you.
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"There's little meaning because they only hammered small fry who don't really offend anyone," said one Weibo user.
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After all, while it lacks all merit as a tool of analysis, its capacity to offend is immense.
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Prosecutors argued against the bail application, saying Mawarire posed a flight risk and could re-offend if released.
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They start speaking cautiously, as though they're worried they'll offend me, or that, somehow, I won't understand them.
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Domestic violence offenders who believe they were treated fairly during their arrest are less likely to offend again.
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And while you may worry that you'll offend your therapist, the truth is that therapists get fired often.
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It keeps us out of jail when we might offend those in power but have committed no crime.
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" She continued, "America said that there's a difference between what may offend me and what absolutely affects me.
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The worst thing is that it isn't even bad in the truest sense—it doesn't offend the ear.
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Today's changes won't do anything to get rid of people trying to offend or scare away legitimate users.
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"We do not want to offend, but to provoke, meaning we want to provoke a discussion," she said.
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She let him eat up her airtime, and, with her recent surge, he has promised to offend again.
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But they all have one thing in common: Nothing here will offend your parents or your normal friends.
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Mr. Cramer is open about his capability to offend, and other Republicans are matter-of-fact about it.
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Even in the U.S., there are countless examples of behavior being adjusted so as not to offend China.
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She apologized, knowing she'd likely offend someone like me while letting her audience know that it didn't matter.
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Coming from the campaign trail and now the White House, the threats are not meant to merely offend.
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For one, responding to someone trying to offend you by just taking them seriously is quite a move.
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"Which skin tone should I use to play Yalitza that would not offend you?" she wrote on Twitter.
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It implies a universality to "Christian values" in a way that might offend Christians who don't share them.
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Hirway is so sweet-natured that it's nearly impossible to offend him, but with this I came close.
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At no point during our testing did we hear any feedback that indicated this message may offend anyone.
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They care how much it costs, they care that it doesn't offend people, they care about its impact.
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Relatedly, the public shouldn't get to decide which cases sufficiently offend us to warrant a judge abandoning impartiality.
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" — Randy Reiss (@undeadsinatra) February 11, 2017 And she looks at me and is like " Did I offend you, sir?
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Both of them are seemingly oblivious to how they offend other people until the general public calls them out.
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He managed to offend Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, Charlie Sheen and several others in a span of five minutes.
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It manages to offend homeless people, as well, by treating toplessness as a social ill on par with destitution.
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Reuters is known for its determination to report the facts, whatever they are, and whomever they favor—or offend.
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It's a case study in how carefully the NATO leader chooses his words so as not to offend Trump.
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Kendra's rep tells TMZ she didn't intend to offend, and she's sorry if anyone took it the wrong way.
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Those voices of Oh, you probably DID offend so-and-so last night (standard hangover anxiety) start to fade.
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Clinton seemed more worried that criticizing economic conditions would offend President Obama and thus risk losing his needed support.
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That this is the world of a high school senior is a fact that should offend and disgust us.
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Macron said he "had not made any comment intended to offend Italy and the Italian people," the statement said.
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But Silicon Valley is playing it extra safe, and its attempts to not offend some Indians are alienating others.
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"I really don't want to offend anyone and right now, it's a pretty volatile atmosphere out there," she said.
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Since talking to my team, I want our viewers to know it was never our intention to offend anyone.
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The Saudi Arabian Football Federation said their players' behavior had not been intended to offend in a statement Friday.
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Was there ever a thought that turning this character you created into a "whore" would offend the female fanbase?
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I brought a case of beer, which seemed to offend the zest for self-improvement that defined the commune.
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The Public Theater chose to present Julius Caesar in such a way that was intended to provoke and offend.
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Such exercises often get a bad press because they offend against the deeply held feeling that life is priceless.
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"Dietland"—with its fascination with girl-on-girl aggression and its willingness to offend—is right in her wheelhouse.
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She clarified that she didn't want to "offend" anyone, and that she thought the Kemsleys made a "lovely" couple.
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And I had to keep my value system up, because I didn't want to do anything to offend Bill.
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He had to completely rethink the film, which nevertheless managed to offend the new regime and was never released.
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"The real challenge lies in how not to offend people who are on the edge of exploding," she said.
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If I know that a novel will offend a certain person, I won't send it to him or her.
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This year, there are other big questions: whether Mr. Trump's penchant to offend goes too far, and whether Mrs.
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"Good rule in life: I try hard not to offend; I try harder not to be offended," he wrote.
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The company, whose product is soft-serve and covered in colorful toppings, said it does not mean to offend.
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If you know what it's about and it's going to offend you, then don't go to see the show.
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And yet in his speech today, Trump has mostly managed to not offend, which is more than many hoped.
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This isn't about contest and being too sensitive about art or measuring who does and doesn't get to offend.
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The runoff has put the candidates' supporters into the tricky position of trying not to offend the other side.
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Matti fears drawing attention to himself, but also the mere possibility that he might offend someone, even a stranger.
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A hipster racist may offend members of the establishment, but actually endangers people of color, Muslims, Jews, and women.
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There are times when you want to unfollow someone on Twitter but don't want to outwardly offend the person.
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And he chose this time to create a foreign affairs uproar guaranteed to outrage and offend the Republican senators.
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Though usage peaked in mid-2015, according to Google Trends, the meme continues to hurt and offend many people.
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They organise large protests which can succeed in blocking events such as gay-rights rallies that offend their beliefs.
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"My intention is never to offend my constituents or Jewish Americans as a whole," Omar said following the backlash.
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Shortly after World War II, some surfers started toying with Nazi regalia, mainly out of a desire to offend.
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As with all of our merchandise, our intention is never to offend as we truly value inclusivity and diversity.
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The miraculous birth of Jesus — the prophet, the Messiah and the "Word" of God — should not offend any Muslim.
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Prohibit the spitting, the tugging of nether regions and other unseemly habits that waste time and offend refined sensibilities.
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Op-Ed Contributors You need the First Amendment precisely when your ideas offend others or flout the majority's orthodoxies.
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But to offend Trump and Haley was, in the end, a bridge too far for the Israeli prime minister.
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"You deliberately are trying to offend as many people as possible," the moderator of one Pepe subreddit told me.
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Remember, too much clutter can make a place seemed cramped; plus you never know what might offend a potential buyer.
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All of these people are looking for something that just doesn&apost offend them on a minute-by-minute basis.
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Accepting that the Iranians committed the crime means accepting its motives for the act -- and that it may re-offend.
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We can never predict what will offend the public or move individuals to take time to complain to the Commission.
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They also offend medical sensibility to its core by making the doctor aware of her place in an industrialized arrangement.
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First off, this is patently false, and Avenatti manages to offend two huge blocs of Democratic voters: Women and minorities.
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It is never our intention to offend, but as with all humor not everyone will find the same things funny.
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Ganesh as a symbol represents the Indian elephant and that's why we chose it, it was never to offend them.
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He has managed to offend just about everyone in the house and even the woman he's supposed to be swooning.
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You don't want to offend anyone, you don't want to distract anyone, and you don't want to bring anyone down.
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A spokesperson for de Blasio responded to the flap by noting the skit was satire and not meant to offend.
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They're eager to claim the support of this demographic and, more importantly, terrified to offend it by turning on Trump.
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Lest they offend their guest, the French have kept wine off the menu, and the Italians covered up nude statues.
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"For some mayors, it becomes a matter of, 'Do I offend some of my constituents by supporting Trump,'" Miringoff said.
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Disney's not alone there; Universal dropped its bid to distribute Kundun so as not to offend the massive Chinese market.
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Partisan gerrymandering may be "unsavoury", as Justice Samuel Alito puts it, but has not been held to offend the constitution.
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I work very closely with the Jewish community and never want to offend anyone, especially with Anti-Semitic remarks. pic.twitter.
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We apologize if it came across differently than intended, and we certainly did not mean to offend anyone by it.
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It's also consistent with Trump's conspicuous unwillingness to offend or alienate white nationalists, on whom he apparently depends for votes.
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And it appears some people on Twitter agree, quickly coming to his defense and assuring that he didn't offend anyone.
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As the Social Media Director for the campaign, I would never offend anyone and therefore chose to remove the image.
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Even without knowing a given defendant's race, black defendants were erroneously believed to be more likely to offend more frequently.
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"Make sure to recycle as you won't want to offend people by displaying it on a bookshelf," one reviewer said.
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Gervais continued the tradition of trying to offend almost everyone on Earth with an unending list of tasteless one-liners.
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The dad joke doesn't offend, it's just a well-crafted piece of art that makes the audience groan with amusement.
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We apologize for any disappointment as it is never our intention to offend our guests with the products we carry.
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A challenge to this quintessential American identity will offend most and produce counter-movements, including political mutiny and philanthropic outpouring.
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That may be because the initiative is seen as Xi's pet project and people were extra cautious not to offend.
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My comments are an observation of the violence that has occurred but in no way is meant to offend anyone.
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In fact, said lies get enormous coverage because they're easy to disprove and offend the media's basic sense of decency.
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They don't offend, they don't fatigue, and they walk the fine line of pleasing both audio purists and casual listeners.
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The world outside campus will often offend them; they must learn to fight back using peaceful protests, rhetoric and reason.
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The director later said he was not trying to offend anyone and was instead trying to "poke fun" at himself.
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But when he takes his approach to other communities, it can offend students who don't know what they're in for.
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"We would like to offer our most sincere apologies, as it was never our intention to offend anyone," he added.
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It was as if, afraid to offend customers, fashion industry members were keeping their opinions under a well-crafted hat.
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Mr. Finale said that while he knows he can offend people, "I won't say anything bad if it's not true."
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" Similarly, Bumble's terms of service also forbids the posting of "content" that's "obscene, pornographic or otherwise may offend human dignity.
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While this may offend the squeamish, it means the bond issuer - the World Bank - can divert money to affected countries.
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"I never had any intention to offend them or come up with any negative connotations in my statement," Djokovic said.
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"Glamour's editor-in-chief Cindi Leive responded via Twitter, saying, "We love Amy Schumer, & would never want to offend her.
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Those two concepts sometimes conflict with each other, so two people with opposing views might clash and offend each other.
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Employees of TikTok in the US were reportedly pressured to censor "culturally problematic" content that might offend the Chinese government.
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And this culture sees the descendants of that genocide as just more people who, if you successfully offend, you win.
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Research in criminology indicates that people with records who go several years without another conviction are unlikely to offend again.
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They have been meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen and her senior ministers, a dialogue likely to offend Beijing officials.
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Instead we get a thin whine: a wasp in a jar, all pointless agitation and a touching desire to offend.
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The center's program, largely financed by the State Department, was deliberately benign so as not to offend Chinese government sensibilities.
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Without the freedom to express ideas, even those that offend, we cannot challenge the status quo nor move society forward.
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Critics accused Ms. Atamna-Ismaeel of avoiding calling it a Palestinian food festival in a bid not to offend Israelis.
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While many politicians, including Mr. Trump, often try to back away from statements that offend, Mr. King amiably doubles down.
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"The Europeans are trying not to offend Trump too much but also trying to keep the JCPOA alive," he said.
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The store's owner, Jeremy Clemetson, said the "fat people are harder to kidnap" sign was never meant to offend anyone.
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"They don't want to offend Japan altogether," said Nasser Yassin, a public policy professor at the American University of Beirut.
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It is even more difficult given the president's proclivities to offend his opponents and get distracted from his policy messaging.
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"At no point did the Booster club intend to offend those sensitive to the topic of firearms," the statement read.
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The dialogue of the internet is often dominated by those who seek nothing more than to offend and scare others.
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"It's just been irritating to me," she says, the way people tiptoe around with their language, afraid to offend anyone.
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"Is that a toy," she said she thought to herself, while trying to find words that would not offend him.
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Concerned that the images could offend and portray the school in a negative light, he ended the publication of yearbooks.
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New York officials said at the time that the city did not intend to be insensitive or offend victims' families.
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Rather than defend his female guest and colleague, Bush decided it was more important not to offend his male guest.
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But what comedians often forget is that while we are allowed to offend, audiences are also allowed to get offended.
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When deciding to work with one-of-a-kind repurposed vintage tees, it was not the brand's intent to offend anyone.
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Ford already has an entire department in China charged with sniffing out scents that might offend the sensibilities of Chinese motorists.
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What's more, taking photos with identifiable cadaver parts, such as the head, could potentially offend family or survivors of the donor.
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If people from different cultures can offend each other without realizing it, how can we expect a machine to do better?
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"Many firms took the easy way out so they don't offend anyone," said David Nelson, chief strategist at Belpointe Asset Management.
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And it does not just offend our sensibilities, it fundamentally changes the character of this country and it leads to violence.
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Cries of outrage from Democrats and the media at Trump's hijacking of the July Fourth celebrations will not offend all Americans.
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And though immigrants' children commit crimes at higher rates than immigrants themselves, they still offend less frequently than longer-settled cohorts.
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And Democrats believe if Trump continues to offend women and minority voters, it will be the death-knell for Senate Republicans.
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You can't talk the way that people naturally talk and use whatever language people naturally use, because that might offend somebody.
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" Lovato posted the apology on her own Twitter account, saying, "In no way did I mean to offend anyone last night.
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At the Flea there's no corner of shame, hidden away so as not to offend the delicate eyes of the thins.
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He has infuriated liberals with provocative comments on race, religion and sex and appears to delight in his ability to offend.
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Sudeikis' Biden said he's a "hugger, a kisser and a little bit of a sniffer" but didn't want to offend anyone.
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The actress would not mourn if Hollywood were to drop projects crafted to appeal to all cultures, and offend in none.
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I said, OK, maybe we should offend them more, so this crazy will just give more money, just to make peace.
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His comments about the election results came during a debate in which he spoke of "hombres," language that could offend Latinos.
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Barro's conclusion is not unimaginable, and it should offend and sober up every white American with a brain -- and a soul.
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He's not trying to offend anybody, that's just his way of getting the most out of himself and playing his hardest.
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Trump, wading into the sensitive waters of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, stepped lightly, careful not to offend or endorse either side.
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It offends a bedrock First Amendment principle: Speech may not be banned on the ground that it expresses ideas that offend.
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" The backlash was immediate, although Miko insisted she wasn't being racist and said ... "Why would i want to offend "jewish" ppl?
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Upfront, we should say that Serenity is a movie that manages to offend in both its meta narrative and main narrative.
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But the fear of vilification means that hardly any seek help voluntarily—and without it they are more likely to offend.
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"We were trying to think of something that would offend the internet," Yes Theory host Thomas Brag says in the video.
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Research suggests that castrating a sadist against his will does not make him less likely to offend; it makes him angrier.
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I got out of the car, risking the parking lights, which didn't seem to offend the man as my headlights had.
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And I get it: The NFL players taking the knee don't intend to offend combat veterans, the fallen and their families.
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In collaboration with the Greek conductor Teodor Currentzis, Sellars has drastically revised Mozart's score, in a fashion that might offend purists.
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Mr. Kent, the department's top Ukraine official, is known for pushing good governance causes without regard for whom he might offend.
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Mr. Kent, the department's top Ukraine official, is known for pushing good governance causes without regard for whom he might offend.
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HBO swept in to give him a commercial-free home where he continues to joke, inform and offend to this day.
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The woman, however, did not want to offend the chef and held her mug until she felt her hands go numb.
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Maher is more than happy to invite anyone to his show who has the potential to offend thousands of vulnerable Americans.
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The voters you blame, whose ballots — for Clinton or Trump — so mystify and offend you, are not a distant, unfamiliar America.
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But in practice, she said, as society has become coarser about sexual matters, it has become harder to offend a jury.
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Sometimes, we say dumb things that can affect our reputation, and other times we say dumb things that actually offend people.
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But Jonah's autoerotic-asphyxiation descriptions were artful, and the news that he was a Peaslee didn't offend my sense of justice.
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When you employ lots of people for their opinions, they're sometimes going to say things that shock and offend other people.
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Her friends and family are the first to admit that Hiatt had a brash sense of humor, which could offend people.
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"My intention is never to offend my constituents or Jewish Americans as a whole," she said, adding that she "unequivocally" apologized.
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They are overtly passionate about equality and conscious of self-improvement, so as to not offend any specific group or values.
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We'll also see AI being used in the courtroom—a predictive system for whether or not an offender would re-offend.
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It's so hard not to offend people these days online or in person because everyone finds something to get offended by.
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But on Thursday's episode of Desus and Mero, the senator told the VICELAND hosts Trump's tweet didn't offend her at all.
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His manners offend me and the tweeting is overdone, but I do admire his resiliency against an unrelenting and unfair press.
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"I never meant to offend anyone, and I was not referring to our players," McNair said in a statement on Friday.
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When the revolutionary ideology was at its stifling height, even the smallest criticism could offend one or another of Iran's leaders.
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I don't want to offend anyone—I came here to try to conform to France's norms, I don't want any trouble.
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Yiannopoulos described himself and the alt-right as free speech fundamentalists, whose willingness to offend was an expression of their freedom.
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Keep that in mind this month, or you're going to offend someone who, admittedly, has a record of somewhat tacky taste.
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Were they afraid of saying the wrong thing, somehow thinking that they would offend me if they talked about my loss?
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This week, my son emailed me to ask if it would offend my wife if he brought some dishes to Thanksgiving.
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"The Public Theater chose to present 'Julius Caesar' in a way that was intended to provoke and offend," Ms. Atran said.
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Morey has since taken the tweet down and stated that it was not his intention to offend the NBA's Chinese fans.
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But most restaurants and landlords aren't likely to ask even these questions; they rightly don't want to offend people with disabilities.
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Most of the humor is too lighthearted to offend all but the most reverent believers, and the movie's inventiveness rarely flags.
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Mr. Maher prides himself as a defender of free speech, including those forms of it that may offend a liberal audience.
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A fun question to ponder after reading these remarks is on which subjects Zuckerberg will now be willing to offend us.
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I don't want to offend women, such as my friend Nina, whose rapes were more severe than my experience with Mark.
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Maher is a liberal prognosticator who exhibits a pretense of tolerance and open-mindedness — thereby giving him comedic license to offend.
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Jim Crow thrived in the South because it threatens violence and death against any black person who dared to offend whites.
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A type of surfboard wax infused with strong-smelling coconut and clove oils is supposed to offend their sensitive olfactory organs.
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His paper also banned using names of sports teams that he said might offend ethnic or religious groups, especially Native Americans.
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I think it's harder for adults to talk about race because they are afraid to offend someone, or to be offended.
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A Patronus is from the "Harry Potter" series, and the only person you might offend by using that term is Voldemort.
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His 2023 "Saigon," a detonation of racist stereotypes, ruined bodies, and cartoon snark, was a kind of weaponized, offend-everyone Surrealism.
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That's a good way to offend all the Kurds in the country and a lot of working-class people in Istanbul.
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" Jake then goes on to defend his brother, saying, "He did not mean to offend anyone, and I can tell when he's like, in shock ... he didn't handle the situation the right way but I know in the back of his head he didn't mean to offend or hurt anybody, or create such a big frustration.
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Taking to Twitter to defend his son, scriptwriter Salim Khan said while what Salman said was wrong, he hadn't intended to offend.
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Screenshot: RoFIt seems the normie-level memes and poor attempts to offend did little to raise the notoriety the RoF clearly craved.
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"We deeply apologize for any misunderstanding, as it was absolutely not our intent to offend anyone," the organization said in a statement.
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I don't mean to offend Hawaiian people, but if scratching my butt on your sacred stuff is offensive, I'm actually not sorry.
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Cruz likely thinks that Trump will succumb to sexist temptations, offend Fiorina again and motivate female Republicans to come to her defense.
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It's most likely to offend people who worry that today's kids are more into selfies than sex, drugs, and rock n roll.
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It's iffy, because you don't want to offend parents; but at the same time, they're wearing the same thing every single day.
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Every woman he could offend is already offended; the rest—and there are a great number of them—are not greatly bothered.
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It's like hearing a cover band play a Sex Pistols song; the lyrics might still offend, but I've heard them all before.
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"The fact that it could offend someone by its usage qualifies it as a symbol that goes against Army policies," Burk wrote.
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If you were to receive a Polo Mint while trick or treating, you should probably ask what you did to offend them.
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When I suggested we just go rent a motel room for the week, my husband freaked out, because we might offend someone.
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In defending Epstein — and getting him a non-prosecution agreement, possibly allowing him to offend again — Dershowitz became part of that story.
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They include edibles, vapor pens, and concentrates—items that, Gonzalez said, "won't offend grandma" if they're spotted at a family get-together.
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It was never my intention to offend Owen Jones and I very much look forward to working with him again in future.
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A 17th-century Scotswoman wrote in her diary of taking Biblical verses as starting points for resolutions ("I will not offend anymore").
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In fact, it's so awful that it makes you wonder if they were making movies in the 2000s just to offend people.
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Trump rode to office, in part, as a crusader against political correctness who wasn't afraid to tell harsh truths and offend people.
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There are others who call it something else, like a fest or a carnival so as not to offend or beckon souls.
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As with all of our merchandise, our intention is never to offend and we apologize for any offense this product has caused.
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The magistrate accepted Wilson was unlikely to re-offend but found he had to serve a period of detention to deter others.
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" Something Turner agreed with, joking later in the clip that she would have picked Sansa, too, but didn't want to "offend anyone.
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" He also shared that fans calling him a bigot was "tough" time in his life, adding, "I didn't mean to offend anyone.
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Administrators are tying themselves in knots in an effort to balance a commitment to free expression with a desire not to offend.
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Heimbach later pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of harassment and was spared jail-time on the condition he not re-offend.
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It doesn't offend me personally, but it was very nice to see that start a dialogue, and people come to my defense.
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Elizabeth Warren's pathetic defense and the enlisting of the New York Times to write this ridiculous story should offend all of us.
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It's human nature, in and out of politics, not to want to offend people with comments that are inflammatory, defamatory or incendiary.
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You can denounce the president's policies that offend those values and still work with a cabinet agency on regulatory and legal issues.
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We should save these practices for monsters like Harvey Weinstein rather than spending them on soccer players whose religious views offend us.
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Rosenstein was confirmed in a bipartisan 94-6 vote, but his decision to write the memo appeared to offend many Democratic supporters.
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"A young scriptwriter came up to me before the ceremony and asked if mentioning 'Ten Years' would offend anyone," Mr. Yee said.
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So pushing pedophiles further into the shadows by persecuting them at every turn may well increase the possibility that they will offend.
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People have sat in jail while they've lost their houses, their jobs, and become more likely to re-offend because of it.
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"Take the risk that you may offend someone, rather than putting your child at risk of fatal or irreversible injury," Schaechter said.
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Inappropriate Language – Content should not contain excessive use of derogatory language, including language intended to offend or insult particular groups of people.
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Luarsab Togonidze said the company didn't intend to offend anyone but wanted to celebrate Georgia's proud traditions, lost during the Communist era.
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It has been years since I've been able to listen to the daytime loudmouths — they offend my sense of nostalgia too much.
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We reported last week that, across the country, theaters are posting increasingly specific descriptions of content that might unsettle or offend patrons.
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The bipartisan legislation includes sentencing reforms and an expansion of programs focused on helping prisoners not re-offend, such as job training.
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"We really do appreciate the opportunity to get feedback from our guests, and it's never our intent to offend customers," he said.
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But the "southern" jibe at Sessions at least appeared to have the potential to offend some of the President's most committed supporters.
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" He also managed to offend another American ally, by claiming that Islamic terrorism in France meant that "Paris is no longer Paris.
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Personally I believe that Mr. West's comments could offend many people, but I can't say I feel personally attacked by his ideals.
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Organizers initially feared that the floor would just be walls of vibrators and sexually explicit imagery that could offend attendees, she said.
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The left would leap at the chance to penalise companies that are deemed too ruthless or which have pay structures that offend.
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Mr Tuong, the academic, argues that a conservative faction within the ruling Communist Party does not wish to offend its Chinese counterpart.
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Like others, Pastor Smith has had his rocky moments with Aretha Franklin over the years, and is careful not to offend her.
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They will offend liberals who have promised that solar-manufacturing subsidies would bring the United States huge numbers of green factory jobs.
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But you didn't want to get ahead of Trump and lead independently because you didn't want to offend him and be primaried.
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It's actually working with the person to change their behavior so that they do not continue to offend in such a way.
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If the cover reinforces visual cliches that could offend audiences, is it fair to ask people to engage with the stories inside?
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Queer black artists have often been siphoned for their creativity and erased visually as to not offend the heteronormative, often white public.
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For Moyd — who bills himself as a "no-holds-barred, don't-care-if-I-offend-people comedian" — the road has been rocky.
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Cause you're the only thing here," might baffle someone into stunned silence, but it isn't likely to offend, while "I have a cenver?
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Partisan gerrymandering may be "unsavoury", as Justice Samuel Alito puts it, but it has not yet been held to offend against the constitution.
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As a kid, I didn't care about being polite—but as an adult, you don't want to offend people or put anybody out.
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However, Rajab was prosecuted under laws making it illegal to offend a foreign country, spread rumors at wartime or "insult" a government agency.
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But CollegeHumor and participating cast members made sure to approach the topic cautiously, making sure to poke fun at but still not offend.
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Instead, McClusky assigned Piche to Level 1, arguing that he was unlikely to re-offend and that he had no prior criminal record.
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But now they offend Holocaust victim survivors and Americans in charge of taking care of these kids while they&aposre here, right, Wolf?
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"The Public Theater chose to present 'Julius Caesar' in a way that was intended to provoke and offend," the company tweeted on Sunday.
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"I didn't want to offend him or nobody in Japan because I have a lot of respect, I played in Japan," said Gurriel.
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Overall, fewer than half of those polled agreed that people should be allowed to express non-violent opinions even if they offend minorities.
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Then there are those who don't wear it for fear of offending someone, those who wear it to offend and comment on Christianity.
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They're never going to be as big as we are, because we work very hard to be inclusive and we don't offend people.
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I was very self-conscious at that time, so I did not want that to inadvertently offend the people I wanted to photograph.
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"In no moment did I try to offend anyone, on the contrary I have a lot of respect," he told reporters in Spanish.
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"I seem to offend people by the way I look, presenting as a masculine woman with a mohawk," said the U.S.'s Lohman.
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The annual list from the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom tends to include a broad range of titles with the potential to offend.
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There's a strange and often unmentioned social pressure here: Many of us have the thought that unfollowing or unfriending someone might offend them.
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As many sexual offenders don't just offend once, but multiple times, it is possible that a lenient criminal justice approach enables future victimization.
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I mean, I'd like to find out that that's true, but I'll certainly look into it because I don't want to offend anybody.
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And yet they went, they voted the way voters have always voted: on things that affect them, not just things that offend them.
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Better to offend a businessman than the president of the United States and a party that would almost certainly inherit the White House.
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So, when you're at work, you understand that you shouldn't bring up sensitive and personal subjects as to not offend your co-workers.
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It's making a judgement call about what's newsworthy and what people should read about, even if it might offend them or other users.
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Companies may offend certain customers or shareholders by contributing to art museums that put up controversial displays, or theaters that perform controversial plays.
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Most of the literature produced over the last 2,000 years has something in it to offend the convictions of a modern, liberal reader.
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"I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend," he once said.
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The Rainbow Rally, as it was called, drew threats of violence and police canceled the march, saying the event would offend religious sentiments.
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"People do offend for really different reasons, so understanding whether it's sexual interest or a combination of attitudes is really important," Christopher says.
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But even he is wary of its effects, which he is keen to control through policies that would deeply offend many conservatives today.
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John Walter, a Trump family historian and one of Donald Trump's cousins, said this was an effort to not offend his Jewish customers.
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"Very unwise if @realDonaldTrump is criticizing Sessions' accent and legal pedigree—unless POTUS wants to offend his most ardent 'Bama supporters," Ingraham tweeted.
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At the very least, a diverse work force can help guard against them making choices that offend large swaths of their potential userbase.
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Christian references in the Beecher passage were edited out, suggesting to some critics that the board did not want to offend religious sensibilities.
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It is as though the organizers did not want to offend the sensibilities of Brazilians already chafing at the price of this show.
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The aggrieved Trump-attire wearers took their cases to federal court to fight for their right to offend the sensibilities of their fellows.
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Ms. Polleri says that she realizes the restaurant may bother some people and that she does not want to offend victims of crime.
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Not wanting to offend the residents of their state, both Ms. Healey and Ms. Rosenblum dismissed any suggestion of another culpable party: voters.
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The Trump parallels are obvious in this new comedy, but the charming pilot is so determined not to offend that it's practically nonpolitical.
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President Trump's appointees seem unconcerned about whether statements praising the godliness of mixing religion and politics will offend secular and many religious Americans.
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That said, I try to understand positions different from mine, and do think someone in Marketing should have noticed the potential to offend.
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Still, forcibly removing a judge for making decisions that offend the governing party is, to put it gently, not tolerable in a democracy.
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In a time when bad jokes often mean jokes that offend, dad jokes carve out space to hate comedy for purely aesthetic reasons.
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And you want to throw the book across the room because you know that the very reason it was written was to offend.
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The films are made to attract and offend, and contain a sense of bawdry fun that is generally not attributed to his work.
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In restaurants, a certain type of diner chooses a plain chicken breast as the option least likely to offend or raise dietary fears.
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His critique of democracy is wildly exaggerated, and there's a streak of illiberalism in his thought that ought to offend the modern reader.
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I think it makes people uncomfortable like they don't want to offend, and so in that process they kind of end up offending.
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Not to say we aren't affectionate in public, but we stay very conscious of what is too much and what might offend people.
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Bloomberg's campaign said it deleted all of the tweets because the pushback was swift and it was never their intention to offend anyone.
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I'm tired of feeling guilty for saying no, and don't want to offend her, but I'm at a loss and feeling very resentful.
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Despite their potential to offend, Facebook's Confederacy pages do not appear to run afoul of the company's standards on issues like hate speech.
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At the shop, near the corner of 69th Street, the thieves' headlong style seemed to offend nearly as much as the theft itself.
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Or the Republican lawmakers who use the force of their government bully pulpits to intimidate and silence people who offend their delicate sensibilities.
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For many young women, if you don't want to offend or start off on the wrong note, it's a risk to speak up.
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You had to be careful not to offend anyone, but you also had to make sure not to let them ruin your passport.
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I know that will offend many who are genuinely fearful of the violent talk and bigoted slurs that Trump has employed and encouraged.
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Some writers have gloriously thick skins, or the whole reason why they write is to offend and get a reaction out of people.
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"We can't get bogged down — and I hope I don't offend anyone here — in this phony debate in the Democratic Party," he said.
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It should shock and offend you that a nation this old should still be patted on the back for taking its first steps.
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A lot of people don't care if they offend people, their apologies are in genuine and they continue offending others, making no changes.
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If every book that might offend someone were canceled in advance of its publication date, few books would wind up on store shelves.
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It did not offend him and he did not think twice about whether the photo should have been in the yearbook, he said.
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You shouldn't want to offend your solvers, and there's always a way to fill the grid without them if you look hard enough.
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" Carlin and Pryor are two examples of people who, they did offend, and they were willing to go, "Yeah, I stand by it.
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Where the current president breaks new ground is in his willingness to offend foreign publics, and bet everything on deal-making with national leaders.
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I think as women we have this fear of rejection; we don't want to offend anyone or push boundaries, and so we just wait.
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"No whim of freedom and 'tolerance' gives anyone the right to offend the feelings of believers," Polish Interior Minister Joachim Brudziński said on Twitter.
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I've only been doing it a year and half so I feel like I told people I was a comedian it would offend people.
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The song sticks to his g-funk, gangsta rap origins and Perico talks about living his life fully, no matter who that might offend.
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In a statement issued to 7 News Australia on Tuesday, Kmart apologized for the costume and said they did not mean to offend anyone.
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"Any time I want to have a conversation [about race] I'm afraid I'm going to offend somebody just by starting to talk," Price said.
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Accept the solutions proposed by the likes of Mr Trump (see article) or Mr Orban, and Western societies will offend against their fundamental values.
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"The attitudes of those who exploit 'podium immunity' and offend the shared conscience cannot be assessed within (the framework of) immunity," Davutoglu told reporters.
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Forensic psychiatrist Michael Welner lists targeting and gaining trust as two distinct tools of grooming that child sex predators employ in order to offend.
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In Europe criminal records are usually wiped clean of all but the most serious offences after some time, provided people do not re-offend.
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"I don't feel the need to be a sort of edgelord, who tries to offend people — that's just not in my nature," he says.
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He tried to stay away from being a divisive figure in part not to offend Democrats who might be thinking of voting for him.
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My main point is that I never meant to offend anyone, and people should try to take my memes with a grain of salt.
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And while making politically incorrect jokes that offend people is absolutely not, in itself, a problem, telling regressive rape jokes in 2017 definitely is.
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My intent was not to offend anyone but rather to simply raise awareness and create some dialogue toward affecting positive change in our communities.
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Officials pointed to at least seven other cases where alleged or convicted criminals were released, and in some cases went on to re-offend.
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And the way they offend each other by openly dismissing or attacking each other's little pleasures provokes plenty of squirming, but relatively few laughs.
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Handler: Sure, but nowadays you can't even wear a Halloween costume to a college party for fear that it will offend somebody on campus.
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During the meeting, concerns were raised by the religious leaders that Madonna's song lyrics and stage antics would offend Christians, reported Channel News Asia.
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"I don't want to offend anybody but far as North Korea is concerned, we believe that what is happening now is counterproductive," Putin said.
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" Moreover, she argued, "in their insistence on evaluating the worth of the victims," victim-impact statements "offend the dignity of the victim as well.
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Texas — they might ask whether a state law, legitimately passed, can be invalidated if it does not offend any articulated terms of the Constitution.
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Omar apologized for and deleted at least one of the controversial tweets, saying she did not intend to offend Jewish Americans or her constituents.
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In Israel's capital city of Jerusalem, only Muslims are legally allowed to pray on the Temple Mount in order not to offend Islamic sensibilities.
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For years now, four liberal justices voted one way, four conservative justices another and one rogue justice managed to offend his or her tribe.
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Frank and Claire are so used to aggressively going after what they want that they rarely pause to consider whether they may offend someone.
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"I'm just, like, blah, and then I don't realize — I would never want to offend anyone on purpose, or be, like, mean," she said.
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I know they probably don't mean to offend me personally—they just think that they can do whatever they want on their day out.
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Fellow SNL alum Chris Rock declared that he won't perform on college campuses for fear that his humor will offend overly sensitive young audiences.
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Most, if not all, states keep a blacklist of words or acronyms that may embarrass or offend other motorists, like ASS, XXX or WTF.
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On Thursday, with the midterms just five days away, Fallon mimicked the president's thinking: "So many people to offend, so little time," he said.
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Staff members have so internalized their boss's vanities and petty grudges that they scurry to avoid anything that might offend his sense of self.
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Tam, the justices ruled that the government can't pick and choose which trademarks it registers based on whether they offend certain people or groups.
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I think this seemed pretty standard for Zuckerberg, in that he limits his public comments to what will offend the least number of people.
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The designer said she had not intended to offend anyone, but she believes it is important for businesses such as hers to tackle politics.
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If there's something I did to personally hurt you or offend you I'm sorry, it's not my intention to upset you by any means.
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Either they didn't give much thought to how the collection would be received online, or they wanted to offend for the sake of offending.
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Some BJP officials suggested that Muslims should not eat beef or otherwise offend the religious sensibilities of Hindus, who consider cows to be sacred.
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After her response in defense of the company, he said, "I didn't mean to offend you by the question," eliciting laughter in the room.
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"I don't want to offend Martinez but he, of course, benefited from Wilmots' work, despite the fact that Wales eliminate the team," Deschamps said.
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"No stories about freedom and "tolerance" give ANYBODY the right to offend the feelings of believers," PiS interior minister Joachim Brudzinski said on Twitter.
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According to The Washington Post, employees of TikTok in the U.S. were pressured to censor "culturally problematic" content that might offend the Chinese government.
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Still, law enforcement officials raised his sex offender status to the state's most dangerous category, Level III, deeming him highly likely to offend again.
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People who know me or who have worked with me know that I am not someone who would intentionally harm, offend, or embarrass anyone.
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I asked McCarthy if he thought Ryan wished he could speak out more forcefully on some things the president does that might offend him.
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The demand, in a resolution that its backers knew would likely offend the United States, was vetoed by the American ambassador, Nikki R. Haley.
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" "I know that he stands by his apology and he feels so bad for everyone that he did offend and he didn't mean it.
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Let's focus on a specific population and see what we can do to re-enter them in a way that they don't re-offend.
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"It is difficult to assess whether there has been a reduction in willingness or preparedness to offend," the parole board wrote in its decision.
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Even if you have the most diverse customization options in your game, there will always be a subset of people you offend or exclude.
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At the end of the session, we learned that the point of this exercise was to prep us for treating patients who would offend us.
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The need to reclaim Germany as an ally to face the threat of communism in the East led to diplomatic efforts not to offend Berlin.
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Not to offend you over in Britain, but my 13-year-old daughter just completed her school year studying our Revolutionary War against the British.
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While the slave master was rude and condescending to Daenerys, Missandei "diplomatically" — as Emmanuel described it — translated his words so as to not offend Khaleesi.
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The president will surely continue to offend Europeans, but neither Mrs Merkel, nor Mr Schulz, nor Mr Macron believes their continent can manage without America.
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And, we have been too politically correct in this country because we don't want to offend anybody to fight for the lives of our children.
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Nearly half of all ex-prisoners re-offend within their first year of release—a share that might be lower if more found honest work.
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The Sena, based in Rajasthan, has been critical of the film, saying it would offend the Rajput community, and that Bhansali was deliberately distorting history.
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As he wrote in one final post (complete with language that may offend some) Upgrade your inbox and get our Daily Dispatch and Editor's Picks.
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On Friday, Simmons said in a statement that he respected the men and women of Fox News and he did not intend to offend anyone.
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They just talk to their favorite assistant and call his or her, I don't want to offend anyone, a little name to launch some music.
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I think in no way shape or form is suicide a joke or should be made fun of ... He did not mean to offend anyone.
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Haye will be remembered for putting spark into the heavyweight division with his dynamic style — and his ability to entertain and offend outside the ring.
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Or, 'The language coming out of this character's mouth seems very flamboyant, which we think is too gay and will offend some of our viewers.
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We got Norm Friday afternoon at LAX and asked if he's walking on eggshells given his propensity to push the envelope and offend his audience.
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As swearing functions as a complex signal, subtle enough either to amuse or to offend, these words vary according to what a culture deems unmentionable.
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While the 2019 Jetta certainly has more flair than the deeply plain outgoing model, it retains a conservative profile that is unlikely to offend anyone.
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Of course I understand if someone would decide against this [for themselves], but it's absolutely unnecessary to offend others because of the work they do.
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We had players who felt it was their right to offend and/or didn't respect the rules that they agreed to upon making their account.
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"I kind of had to get over a lot of society's BS, this idea that you're doomed to offend," he says in a phone interview.
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This from a fellow who is famous for recalling every detail of every deal he ever made and who never forgets those who offend him.
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It applies to everyone, no matter what their views — whether they offend you or try to convince voters to support politicians or policies you oppose.
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I think some people are afraid to do that because they don't want to cause any attention and they're afraid they're going to offend somebody.
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" Freeman also issued a statement after the allegations first surfaced, saying he is "not someone who would intentionally offend or knowingly make anyone feel uneasy.
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Locking up 2.3 million people (according to the Prison Policy Initiative) has not greatly reduced the number of acts that offend us and harm us.
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Again, I hate to offend Christie's devotees, but she definitely cheats here, granting Poirot extraneous information that was in no way available on the train.
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They drew a distinction between political speech and hate speech, supporting efforts to curb speech that would offend specific groups but not opposing political viewpoints.
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"The Public Theater chose to present Julius Caesar in such a way that was intended to provoke and offend," the bank said in a tweet.
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But Kidd maintains that she is just having some playful fun, that the emoji make her happy, and that she isn't trying to offend anybody.
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What should offend Bangladeshis is the everyday sexual harassment on streets, buses, and public spaces; in workplaces and marketplaces; in slums and in corporate offices.
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What's more, only 27 percent of Americans identify as Republicans, so these companies should consider that their support for the chamber may offend many consumers.
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But it could also deeply offend a nuclear-capable leader who has issued threats against the US, and short-circuit chances of diplomacy, analysts said.
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Spayd, however, ruled that until "the mainstream" adopted that use, "bitch" was too insulting — too likely to offend potential readers — to put in the headline.
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In many cases, they are obliged to take into account certain factors prescribed under the law—even if, hypothetically, those factors offend their feminist sensibilities.
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"The French president emphasized that he never said anything meant to offend Italy and the Italian people," Macron's office said in a statement on Thursday.
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When I hear guys complaining about PC, to me, you want to have the freedom to offend people, and I'm not drawn to offending people.
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"In typical fashion, U.S.A.G. managed to offend everyone with a settlement plan that doesn't allow for any of our questions to be answered," Manly said.
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Although Qataris share the puritanical Wahhabi strand of Islam with Saudi Arabia, there are no public beheadings or other spectacles that offend the modern conscience.
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Yet he swears he's never intended to offend; he's just focused on making art for art's sake, and if it upsets you, so be it.
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" In advocating for his ideas about growth, Professor Romer has sometimes courted controversy, telling one interviewer in the 1990s, "I'm quite happy to offend everyone.
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Not offend them, in the way something like South Park might have; just repeat a lot of slogans you can easily read on the Internet.
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All they had to do was provoke, offend the crew-cut crowd, generate outrage and set off a cycle that ripped apart the cultural consensus.
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Mr. Khan didn't like it because he didn't know how the president would take it and because he thought the move might offend some customers.
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Instagram, like other social media sites including Twitter and YouTube, has become an easy place to shame or offend, something the company acknowledged last year.
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Even the pacing of her stage walk, which Wilson slightly cuttingly shows in multiple contexts, seems like the work of someone hoping not to offend.
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She is careful not to be overly familiar with her thin-skinned husband, not to offend, though she means to protect him from looking foolish.
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" Later she told The Hollywood Reporter she was "sorry to offend the black stretchpants women of America by wearing a little color on Inauguration Day.
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By the time halftime rolled around with the Eagles up 22-12, not even Justin Timberlake's underwhelming halftime act could offend me, not much anyway.
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"I don't mean to offend people, I just mean to speak directly to people, and I think that's why people want me in this race."
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Did I offend the host by popping open the Champagne she provided, or not letting her know how much I loved those bacon-wrapped figs?
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How can law enforcement and intelligence communities know who is at risk to re-offend, and how effective are deradicalization programs at preventing further violence?
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"We can't offend Muslims because they are on the front lines of the war on terror," you sometimes hear from liberals in Washington and elsewhere.
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I'd much rather pack in a slew of fresh, clever and fun entries than try to push the boundaries with something that might offend people.
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"If I did offend somebody, I absolutely do owe them an apology," he says, speaking publicly about it for the first time since it happened.
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We certainly don't want to offend people, and our overall goal is to be effective in reaching specific people with information that resonates with them.
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"At the end of the day, we're not sitting here trying to offend anyone, we're trying to get people to just engage with us," Reidinger said.
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But his manner is also likely to offend or alarm other voters and may do little to alleviate skepticism towards Trump among political elites in Washington.
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YouTube is taking new steps today to get a handle on content that might offend advertisers or, conversely, prevent a YouTube creator from monetizing their videos.
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The Kerala law, dating back centuries, forbids women of menstruating age from entering the temple as they are seen as impure and would offend the god.
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It was not my intention to offend anyone and I hope that the explanation of my intent assuages any hurt the post may have inadvertently caused.
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A former CDC official told Vox it's not uncommon for officials to avoid using language in budget discussions that might offend those holding the purse strings.
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Yet, for many, if such outsize structures meant little to the working class and working poor, they could also be thought to offend them as well.
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"So yes, there were deliberate efforts to offend Muslim Filipinos' religious sensibilities," Christopher Capozzola, a history professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told TIME last year.
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Now, KD has shone light on another invention: you don't have to just win, but you have to win in a way that does not offend.
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"My body seemed to offend him, but he couldn't help but stare, especially when I was eating," she wrote, according to an excerpt obtained by People.
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Malaysia's the Star newspaper reported the error in post on its Facebook page with the title "How to offend Singaporeans and Malaysians at the same time".
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He invited her to sit on his lap, which she said she did not want to do but in order to not offend him she complied.
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He aspires to see sharia (Islamic law) enforced across Indonesia; he is in favour of banning homosexual acts and minority Muslim groups whose beliefs offend him.
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And perhaps counterintuitively, insurance companies are loath to offend physicians and hospitals in their all-important networks — even those accused of wrongdoing, many experts have said.
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The bipartisan legislation focused on divisive issues, including sentencing reforms and an expansion of programs focused on helping prisoners not re-offend such as job training.
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New Zealand has been more careful recently than neighbor Australia not to offend China as both Pacific countries jostle for export opportunities in the Asian giant.
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If one option is "Yes!" and another is "100% DO IT RIGHT NOW," for example, there's zero chance someone will offend you with an accidental vote.
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I would bring food if I could, but it just doesn't really work like that at a fashion show; I would probably offend so many people.
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And yes, it does offend me that when I spoke with three advocates from Ottawa's black community, none were invited to this event, much less honored.
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The episode is littered with offensive moments, because The Office is populated by characters who offend, but the butt of the joke is ignorance, not otherness.
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Cook told ABC News on Wednesday that complying with the order would be "bad for America," and set a legal precedent that would offend many Americans.
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"I don't condone that and I know that he stands by his apology and he feels so bad for everyone that he did offend," said Kufrin.
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"Anyone who knows me or has worked with me knows I am not someone who would intentionally offend or knowingly make anyone feel uneasy," Freeman wrote.
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"Anyone who knows me or has worked with me knows I am not someone who would intentionally offend or knowingly make anyone feel uneasy," he said.
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As I try to think of what I might've done to offend this flying robot security guard, I start sprinting back to my ship for safety.
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He was able to avoid saying anything to outright offend supporters of the movement, while at the same time giving its opponents something to cheer for.
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A handful of communities with large Muslim populations have promoted the use of Shariah law, a fundamentalist doctrine that would offend most Americans, including many Muslims.
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A court in Salzburg initially dismissed the prosecutors' arguments that he posed a flight risk and might re-offend if he was not remanded in custody.
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Susan Wojcicki said in a letter to creators that YouTube will remain an open platform, even if that means it will offend people along the way.
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The post was titled "Did I offend you?" and was published on her personal website in October 2015 while she worked as press intern for Rep.
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Feeling on Capitol Hill right now: Republicans are openly fretting about what the brash New York billionaire might say -- or which group he might offend -- next.
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"The CBCP also has to be very careful because it might unnecessarily offend a good number of people with goodwill, who are Catholics themselves," he said.
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When revisited today, some of your work in the 90s seems like it stands to offend people more than it did when it first came out.
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He shied from news cameras, concerned that any utterance could offend his boss or amplify the daylight between the two men on any number of issues.
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" Quotable "I didn't want to upset or offend people who had served in the military who, by and large, have a pretty good sense of humor.
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We have to look at it straight, stop hemming and hawing around it or trying to disavow it or worrying that it might offend and discomfit.
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He was first indicted on sex crime charges in 2007, but a "non-prosecution agreement" enabled him to avoid prison time — and, some say, offend again.
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This strategy certainly wouldn't offend President Trump, who sounds desperate to get this health care business over with and move on to cutting taxes for corporations.
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The legislation his government introduced Monday defines it broadly, as any comment, gesture or touching "of a sexual nature" that could offend or humiliate an employee.
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On top of that confusion, I harbor a fear of expressing views that will offend other progressives, scholars and teachers who may also be fighting oppression.
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No one knows which side of the conflict your journalism may offend, or which sentence may mean a bullet in the head, like Mr. Bukhari received.
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Unlike Michael Jordan, who famously did not want to offend anyone who might buy his signature sneakers, players around the country's leagues have begun firing back.
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Ms. Gould said the company did not realize the curriculum would offend or that the idea harked to a tactic big tobacco companies used decades ago.
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His jokes attempt the balancing act of translating religious customs for a secular audience while poking fun at the devout in a way that doesn't offend.
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But in New York I met people who clearly struggled to understand me and felt constricted by politeness and a well-meaning desire not to offend.
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"There was never any concern — by anyone, at any level — that Robert Lee's name would offend anyone watching the Charlottesville game," Skipper said in the statement.
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Year of the pig is typically a shaky time since it's the year to offend Tai Sui, or the stars opposite Jupiter, according to Chinese astrology.
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" Clarkson addressed Osbourne's comments on her show with Teigen, saying "honestly the original doesn't even offend me, I was just like, 'Cool, we'll do another version.
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Since then, I haven't heard of any unjust prosecutions resulting from that repeal; I have seen child rapists brought to justice before they could offend again.
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Wool also helps resist odor, so even after a sweaty run, you'll be far less likely to offend anyone when you take off those running shoes.
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This definition is not meant to offend anyone, because, let's face it, we've all been a part of the sheeple at various times in our lives.
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"I hope I didn't offend anybody even by bringing those [words] up on — I'm just bringing up the illustration the evolution of the words," he says.
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"The raising of Daniel from the dead is a story that will offend some people," Mr. Bonnke wrote in his book "Raised From the Dead" (2014).
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In the early two-thousands, when Letourneau first began to research juveniles who sexually offend, she discovered that there was little rigorous scholarship about effective treatment.
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"The downside of all of this is the pressure: the pressure to not mess up or say anything that's going to offend anyone," she went on.
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Hope and courage wins elections," she said, adding, "I'm not running some consultant-driven campaign with some vague ideas that are designed not to offend anyone.
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But Weibo is famously and tightly screened in China by the ruling Communist Party, and posts that offend the government's sensibilities are often deleted by officials.
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Unfortunately Mr. Johnson's ambitions on this front reminded me that sometimes, well-intentioned art can backfire and offend (and even hurt) those it's intended to champion.
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US recidivism rates outside drug court are much higher: about two-thirds offend again within three years of their release, and three-quarters after five years.
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In an age where we go out of our way not to offend whole groups of people, apparently people living with Down syndrome are fair game.
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Audrey Tautou breaks through as a French sprite working as a waitress who lays out elaborate practical jokes as payback for those who offend her friends.
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Joel Kaplan, the company's vice president for global public policy, objected to the public dissemination of internal findings on the grounds that it would offend conservatives.
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"One of the reasons Aboriginal people offend is because of past traumas they've suffered in their lives," said Bunja Smith, chairman for the Aboriginal Legal Service.
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As for the breakfast test, I just follow the guidelines of the publisher and the feedback from the online community and try not to offend anybody.
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He is walking a political tightrope and trying not to offend the large Trump constituency in his state, where Pence was governor before becoming vice president.
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Since he launched his unlikely presidential campaign in 2015, Trump has trampled on political norms, slamming politicians and not hesitating to offend pockets of the American population.
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Burning sage, or smudging, is great first step — it's essentially an all-purpose spiritual cleanser that will send a message to your ghost but won't offend it.
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"It was meant as a humorous way of promoting the new $5 McPick Meal Deal, and in no way meant to offend," Grachnik wrote to the CBC.
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According to TMZ , which captured video of the moment in question, JC was, ironically, trying to explain to fellow houseguest Bayleigh Dayton how not to offend people.
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Gurriel, who spent time playing with the Yokohama DeNA Baystars of Japan before signing on with Houston in July 2016, said he never meant to offend Darvish.
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My concern was that I was trying to portray her in a light where she was kind of not too villainous — I didn't want to offend anyone.
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So, here's a surefire way to offend a whole bunch of people on the internet: Take a millennia-old culinary tradition and liken it to squeezing zits.
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Yet Mr Trump's willingness to disrupt and offend has already wrong-footed China's leaders, who thought they could count on America being unwilling to rock the boat.
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This problem is made worse in Western societies, especially, that have seen the spread of racism, discrimination, xenophobia and Islamophobia, all of which offend and intimidate Muslims.
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As long as the cheering and the ovations endure, that personal following gives Mr Trump great power, even when his policy positions offend against Republican Party orthodoxy.
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Boris Johnson has earned a reputation as Britain's most flamboyant politician, a man whose impressive vocabulary is matched only by his ability to offend at every turn.
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After the game, Gurriel spoke to reporters and confirmed he was indeed mocking Darvish by the gesture, but said he wasn't trying to offend anyone by it.
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People cope differently with pain, and my intention was not to offend rather give back and provide vehicle for expression based on recent outpouring on the topic.
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I don't want to offend them in any way," but at the end of the day you're like, "This is the business and this is relevant content.
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In a statement released Friday, the brewery said it never intended to offend anyone and would remove the artwork from the Bombay Brown beer and its website.
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Of course, it doesn't seem like Kimmel is the type of guy that would purposely try to offend people on a major stage like the Academy Awards.
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Instead, he called on the White House to tackle an issue most corporate leaders and policymakers avoid discussing publicly lest they offend key trading partners: currency manipulation.
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But supporters say that therapists would surely never have received such evidence were it not for that confidentiality, and that untreated paedophiles are more likely to offend.
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Szijjártó argued in his statement that "no one, not even Bill Clinton, can allow himself to offend the Hungarian people in this way," The Associated Press reported.
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And while consumers generally don't want to see what happens on a kill floor, they'd find nothing to offend them if they saw Beyond Meat's manufacturing process.
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Asked about it at the press lunch on Thursday, Mr. Allen told a group of journalists, "It would take a lot to offend me," The Guardian reported.
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" According to the complaint, Gifford later said he didn't mean to offend her and added "that was how he treats his daughters when he wants their attention.
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Customs vary widely, but how and whether you point or beckon can potentially offend, and in the Muslim world the left hand is reserved for bathroom hygiene.
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"We can't get bogged down — and I hope I don't offend anyone here — in this phony debate in the Democratic Party," he said, according to the Herald.
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Not so in New Orleans, where the slick, relatively gaffe-free broadcast was intended not to arouse any unruly emotions or to offend any particular religious sensibilities.
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Mr. Trump's penchant to offend and his household-name celebrity are a potentially lethal combination, as most voters have both firm and deeply negative opinions of him.
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Deploying euphemisms about "Washington" or "national politics" so as not to offend the president and his supporters, Republican governors said they would seek to localize their races.
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Though President Trump seemed to offend almost everyone during his visit to Britain last week, his depiction of a country in "somewhat turmoil" was not completely wrong.
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Hotchner observed that Laura O'Grady's "Purebred Love," a dog festival documentary about canine breeding, would probably offend activists who believe that people should acquire only rescued animals.
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Conversely, I won't put something in a puzzle if I would find it hurtful or offensive, or if it's likely to hurt or offend a marginalized community.
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The decision to be demure, to rely on colors that do not offend or call attention, is tied up in class-specific ideas of propriety and respectability.
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That may offend contemporary ears, but it's not necessarily a story of negligence or dishonesty, nor is the idea of a Prognosis Declaration a vote for denial.
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The "Lehman Trilogy" has in its soul a critique of these imbalances, but its criticisms are facile and anodyne enough to offend no one benefiting from them.
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"This should offend every current and former member of the Security Council who knows how difficult it was to gain passage of the sanctions," Ms. Haley said.
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"People who know me or who have worked with me know that I am not someone who would intentionally harm, offend, or embarrass anyone," Domingo's statement continued.
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PGA golfer Scott Piercy says he'll "do better" after posting a homophobic meme about Pete Buttigieg on his IG page ... insisting he wasn't trying to offend anyone.
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It managed to offend nearly everyone else too, by pursuing violence and grossness further than any other film in Waters's — and possibly anyone else's — body of work.
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Sometimes you have to get down in the dirt and deal with some ideas that make you uncomfortable, that really challenge you and maybe even offend you.
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You can offend taxi unions, reporters and local regulators, but anyone whose business depends on an app that runs on an iPhone knows you can't upset Apple.
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" (sic) The prosecutor sarcastically added that "it is so important that we don't publish the religion, name, or motive of the terrorist as not to offend anyone.
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What men like Louis C.K. or Maher have lost isn't the right to offend, or to make a living, but their place on the cultural cutting edge.
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It showed that Madrid had announced a fictitious, lower fee, in order not to offend Madrid's star player, Ronaldo, who was acquired for ninety-four million euros.
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Beyond describing a high crime rate, the data tells us that criminal aliens are repeatedly given the opportunity to offend again, with deadly results for our citizens.
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Careful not to offend, Apple said it "appreciated" that CCTV had flagged the issue but explained that the company did not have access to its users' locations.
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The remarks could easily offend officials in North Korea, where a cultlike autocracy exalts Mr. Kim as a deity who cannot be seen as servile and weak.
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Needless to say, there is a tremendous difference between claiming that 80 percent of offenders will re-offend and that more than 95 percent of them won't.
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Like the Republican politicians who started jumping ship, I was sure that bragging about sexual assault would offend enough people to sink his chances of becoming president.
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I also wanted to clarify my responses to some of the Tweets on this issue as these were not meant to offend anyone or inflame the situation further.
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"Six months ago there was a lot of nervousness about keeping the party united and walking gently because we didn't want to offend millennials and progressives," she said.
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"The required warnings therefore offend plaintiffs' First Amendment rights by chilling protected speech," the judges wrote in granting a preliminary injunction that prevents the law from taking effect.
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And I have to tell you in this celebrity obsessed culture not to offend anybody, but we are obsessed with celebrity in this culture a bit too much.
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Not only do you have to grab someone's attention immediately, but you don't want to offend or turn them off with an ill-received joke or aggressive behavior.
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"It's not a question of finding a sort of middle ground where you don't offend anyone because I don't think that would be the best solution," he said.
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But millions of grass-roots activists, many of them outsiders to the political process, have embraced Trump as a plain-speaking populist who is not afraid to offend.
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I just don't think that people's opinions should be discussed as it can hurt people's feelings and maybe even offend people on what they think is right/wrong.
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However, middle school spokesperson, Tracey Carson, confirmed the incident to the Associated Press, saying that educators sometimes "mess up" and Thole did not mean to offend the student.
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His preference for "content of character" (as he defines it) over color of skin, coupled with his characteristic bluntness, is almost guaranteed to offend in our hypersensitive age.
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It urges, though it does not mandate, high-level visits between America and Taiwan of the kind that successive administrations have discouraged, so as not to offend China.
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That has raised the delicate question of who will cover them this time, since Washington, reportedly, has worried that making a direct offer might offend the North Koreans.
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You don't want to rely on the same old, "Where do you work?" question, but you also don't want to offend anyone by accidentally bringing up something controversial.
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"President Macron underscored that he did not say anything that was meant to offend Italy or the Italian people," a statement from the Italian prime minister's office said.
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"Big Brother" houseguest JC Mounduix hurled a couple of nasty epithets Tuesday night -- in front of a black houseguest -- while trying to explain how NOT to offend people.
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His mom seemed really uncomfortable and told me that people in Barbados are quite formal and that I couldn't wear shorts to Bridgetown because it would offend people.
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When white benefactors, whose noblesse oblige blinds them to their own racism, gather for dinner, Bledsoe discreetly excuses himself rather than offend their sensibilities by dining with them.
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In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Conway says she's "sorry to offend the black-stretch-pants women of America [by wearing] a little color" on inauguration day.
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On one side, #MeToo leaders point out that repeat predators like Harvey Weinstein have used NDAs to silence victims and avoid detection and punishment while continuing to offend.
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I was careful not to ask any questions that might offend, and because I did that, they trusted me with sincere and deep truths about who they were.
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And the Hollywood studios' ingrained aversion to offend means that the publicity machine is tamping down one of its more surprising elements — a pointed commentary on corporate greed.
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It managed to offend and invalidate not only Leigh but many of us who have attempted I.V.F. This was a lost opportunity to open up a larger discussion.
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Trump seems to think -- or at least say -- that he has to be careful not to offend the #MeToo movement by throwing a DNA heritage kit at Warren.
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But Williams has given us a reminder that the more popular and willing to offend a show might be, the more people are willing to argue about it.
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Additionally, several UK newspapers sensationally reported in 2016 that Cadbury had "banned" references of Easter on its packaging in order to not offend those of non-Christian beliefs.
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The event now makes a conscious effort not to offend (too much), and award winners are increasingly more diverse—an acknowledgement of the industry's overall lack of diversity.
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After Game 3 ended in a Houston victory, Gurriel was besieged by reporters, and he told them through an interpreter that he did not intend to offend Darvish.
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The controversy showcased how China's voluble online audience can quickly punish companies, especially foreign ones, when they offend — a fact that many brands have learned the hard way.
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"My intention wasn't ever to offend anybody," the star said, after receiving a letter from mayor of Kyoto, Japan, Daisaku Kadokawa, which explained why the name was offensive.
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Now, after a backlash from Hindu-Americans who said the ad was inappropriate, the Fort Bend Republicans have issued an apology, saying they never intended to offend anyone.
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"We believe the panel's actions offend basic standards of fairness and respect for the rights of American citizens," the groups wrote in a letter provided to The Hill.
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"Art should shock, hurt, offend, intrigue, be a merciless critic of the merciless times we are not only witnessing but whose victims we have become," Drndic once said.
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"i didn't mean to offend by expressing that [euphemism for breasts] should be calm, i know injustices are frustrating and it's easy to get worked up," she tweeted.
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" She loves the color pink and blasts "thuggish rap at a very loud volume even though the lyrics are degrading to women and offend me to my core.
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"Political correctness is the handicap of any real conversation and I hate it," she said in that film, echoing a common refrain among white comics whose words offend.
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"The crimes of sexual abuse offend Our Lord, cause physical, psychological and spiritual damage to the victims, and harm the community of the faithful," the pope wrote Thursday.
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While gay animals appear to offend Gorka, he doesn't seem bothered by a historically Nazi-aligned Hungarian party's sigil, which he wore to an inauguration ball in 2017.
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Her first hit, the protest song "Society's Child," about an interracial romance whose first-person narrator ends the relationship because of social pressure, managed to offend everybody, she recalled.
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There are anecdotes about wine sellers being asked if they could obscure or even soak off its label for worries that Goya's sinister imagery could offend dinner table guests.
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