Word: affront
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...betrays Harvard’s historic commitment to equal rights and shows disrespect for the principles on which the Harvard community is based. His acquiescence in the presence of discriminatory military recruiters at Harvard Law School not only violates the principle and policy of nondiscrimination, but is a particular affront to Harvard’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered students...
...claim that CBS pulled the Reagan mini-series because it was biased and offended conservatives [Nov. 17]. But the real reason was that the American people saw the production as a meanspirited parody rather than the docudrama that CBS touted. The Reagan program was canceled because it was an affront to a great, living President and to all Americans. BEN VECCHIO Rustburg...
...Your acquiescence in the presence of discriminatory military recruiters at Harvard Law School violates the principle and policy of non-discrimination and is a particular affront to your own gay and lesbian students,” the letter states...
...protests already has government backing away from them because for many in France, such proposals raise the dark specter of an "élitist" and "undemocratic" system in which higher education will be reserved for the rich (as they inaccurately assume it is in America). But however much of an affront this may seem to the French ideal of égalité, a bit of inequality in pursuit of a decent system of higher education may be no vice. There is a point at which too much democracy, like too much pastis before dinner, can lead to a kind of facile...
Even the suggestion that they compete against one another to see who is better is almost a personal affront...