Word: offending
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...subject. For decades the U.S. has supported the Shah as a defense against Soviet expansion in a region of strategic importance. There are firm reports that Foreign Service officers based in Iran have long been prevented by Washington from building close contacts with Iranian opposition leaders, lest this offend the Shah. President Carter still says publicly that the Shah deserves full American support, but there are signs that the Administration's emphasis, as a ranking U.S. diplomat puts it, is shifting to one of "helping the Shah to see the reality of his position." On the advice of former...
...offend me. I ripped off the cover and all interior photographs, in living color, of the massacre. They reflect the same loss of human dignity that the events in Guyana themselves represent
...Sacks, Dan Tosteson; but don't offend...
Allison said that renaming the library would offend donors and would "do little to advance the cause of freedom in South Africa." However, he established a committee to propose criteria for accepting donations and naming buildings, that would both meet the school's financial needs and "avoid unnecessary controversy...
...there are no other criteria: the ad was not deceptive, nor libelous, nor dangerous to the social order; it did not directly promote the economic or political subversion of the would-be models, nor did it compel them to do anything against their wills. It simply was likely to offend many readers, as it offended a majority of the staff...