Sentences with 'offence'
Example sentences and phrases with the word offence and other words derived from it.
• « Slaves were not usually killed outright, but this was because murder was seen as an offence to the gods, not because there were legal consequences. »
• « This is why freedom, exclusive to man, is a gift received from above, which no one can take away without committing a double offence: to the victim, by depriving him of this divine gift, and to God, by disregarding an attribute which he wished to bestow on his creature. »
• « In March 2003, referring to the U.S. led coalition's actions in the Iraq War, Clark told the newspaper Sunday Star Times; "I don't think that September 11 under a Gore presidency would have had this consequence for Iraq." She subsequently sent a letter to Washington apologising for any offence that her comment may have caused. »