The murderous vendetta lasted years and involved disputes over a razorback hog and various other affronts to family dignity. |
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In youth, affronts to their dignity or pride are often met with disproportionate anger, and sometimes with revenge. |
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A muru would redress an intentional offence and could also be instituted for unintentional affronts or offences. |
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Her vulnerable expression and her eyelids closed, she wondered how this woman could mutter such affronts to the inferior and poor slave that endured her mercilessness. |
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He will not knuckle down under any situation that affronts him until he has done all in his power to change it. |
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We share all these snubs and affronts with you, for they prepare a glorious tomorrow. |
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In recent months, we had a kind of premonition that the federal government would be giving in to such affronts. |
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Over the next half century the affronts to that and other ideals hardly ceased. |
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The government House leader mentioned the issue of proper, legal and judicious affronts to the House. |
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While no longer the site of armed affronts, the region is still subject to high levels tension. |
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However, more minor affronts can also seriously impact international relations and country equity. |
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I am very happy that our young pages, who work so hard and so well to make our task easier, do not have to suffer such affronts. |
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They are continually blaspheming, which affronts him and moves his anger. |
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Millions of human beings have to suffer these affronts every single day. 11 September reminded us that the breakdown of security is also a global phenomenon. |
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I can assure them that several of us, especially on this side of the House, care greatly about the people who are experiencing affronts which we could not describe without using unparliamentary language. |
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Like the Psalmist, you keep your soul on an even keel and silent, intervening only at the hour set by God, without animosity or feelings of rancour in spite of the many affronts which rain down upon you. |
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There are, however, other affronts against the dignity and authority of Parliament which may not fall within one of the specifically defined privileges. |
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We are confident that such affronts on the Iraqi people will not weaken the country's strong desire to establish a secure, stable and unified democracy. |
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An RDP regime, in my view, is simply a segregationist regime, and like all segregationist regimes it affronts the dignity of those individuals who are set apart on the basis of their personal characteristics. |
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Like so many others, I came away with renewed determination to do whatever is in my power to prevent such massive affronts to human dignity in the future. |
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The king was not more forward to bestow favours on them as they free to deal affronts to others their superiors. |
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It has become the main pillar of action for our social development policy, because we understand that poverty is one of the most savage affronts to human beings, as it attacks their dignity and violates their human rights. |
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At an official banquet this week for conference participants at Diaoyutai, the state guest house where generations of important visitors have been feted and hoodwinked, there are no such affronts to foreign tastes. |
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