The pope assumed at times, due to the non-existence of other possibilities and on account of the Church's spiritual superiority over kingdoms, the place of an arbiter of natural and divine law in deposing kings that had offended it, for instance, in attacking the liberty of the church.

In this passage Jesus says that an offended Christian should draw the offender's fault to his attention at first privately ; then, if the offender refuses to listen, to bring one or two others, that there may be more than a single witness to the charge ; next, if the offender still refuses to listen, to bring the matter before the church, and if the offender refuses to listen to the church, to treat him as " a Gentile and a tax collector ".

I employ a cab — I am seated beside white people — I reach the hotel — I enter the same door — I am shown into the same parlour — I dine at the same table — and no one is offended ...

4, at sight ), Reményi was offended by Brahms's failure to praise Liszt's Sonata in B minor wholeheartedly ( Brahms supposedly fell asleep during a performance of the recently composed work ), and they parted company shortly afterwards.

" In an interview, MacKaye stated that he was offended that some perceived racist overtones in the lyrics, saying, " To me, at the time and now, it seemed clear it's an anti-racist song.

The monks were offended at the apparent demotion of Saint Denis, and Abélard did not remain long at Saint Denis.

Even before Scott's death was known, Amundsen had been offended by what he felt was a " sneering toast "' from RGS President Lord Curzon, at a meeting held supposedly to honour the polar victor.

" Even at the age of five, Noyce was offended by the notion of intentionally losing at anything.

Ford was at the bottom of the hiring list, having offended producer Jerry Tokovsky after he played a bellboy in the feature.

The law offended machine politicians within the Republican Party and did not prove to be enough for the party's reformers ; hence, Arthur lost popularity within the Republican Party and was unable to win the party's Presidential nomination at the 1884 Republican National Convention.

Atwood was at one time offended at the suggestion that The Handmaid's Tale or Oryx and Crake were science fiction, insisting to The Guardian that they were speculative fiction instead: " Science fiction has monsters and spaceships ; speculative fiction could really happen.

The former asserts that Scipio was unsuccessful in his effort to obtain the province, and, offended by the rejection, remained after the end of his consulship, in a private capacity at Rome.

It was Calchas who prophesied that in order to gain a favourable wind to deploy the Greek ships mustered in Aulis on their way to Troy, Agamemnon would need to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigeneia, to appease Artemis, whom Agamemnon had offended ; the episode was related at length in the lost Cypria, of the Epic Cycle.

The descriptions in the novel of a character who lectures at a meeting of Gollancz's Left Book Club, and of the meeting itself, were such that Gollancz ' could not have helped being offended by them.

Higham has described the events of the awards ceremony, stating that as Fontaine stepped forward to collect her award, she pointedly rejected de Havilland's attempts at congratulating her and that de Havilland was both offended and embarrassed by her behavior.

Scott was at first offended, thinking he was being made fun of, but he consented to play after being assured that his wishes had been scrupulously obeyed and that the boy was a " chess prodigy " who would tax his skill.

Repairing next to Vishnu, he found the deity asleep, and, indignant at his seeming sloth, Bhrigu stamped upon his breast with his left foot and awoke him ; instead of being offended, Vishnu gently pressed the Brahman ’ s foot and expressed himself honoured and made happy by its contact ; and Bhrigu, highly pleased by his humility, and satisfied of his being impersonated goodness, proclaimed Vishnu as the only being to be worshipped by men or Gods, in which decision the Sages, upon Bhrighu ’ s report, concurred, " Who was he to test the trimurtis?

Aziz mistakenly believes that the women are really offended that he has not followed through on his promise and arranges the outing at great expense to himself.

But far from being offended by the song, the locals invited Marx to be Grand Marshal at Sherman County's Fourth of July parade in 1993, an invite that the singer accepted.

His first episcopal act was calling a council at Reading in July 1279 in order to implement ecclesiastical reform, but Peckham's specifying that a copy of Magna Carta should be hung in all cathedral and collegiate churches offended the king as an unnecessary intrusion into political affairs.

The stage production had used the plot of George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man, but Shaw had been deeply offended and angered at the result.

He sometimes dated his letters 200 years before the current date, which would have put the writing back in U. S. colonial times, before the American Revolution ( a war which offended his Anglophilia ).

The Gospel of Matthew states that the " disciples were indignant " and John's gospel states that it was Judas Iscariot who was most offended ( which is explained by the narrator as being because Judas was a thief and desired the money for himself ).

This offended Constantinople, which had traditionally been seen as the defender of Rome, but the Eastern Roman Empress Irene of Athens was too weak to oppose Charlemagne.

He learned from Proteus ' daughter, Eidothea (" the very image of the Goddess "), that if he could capture her father he could force him to reveal which of the gods he had offended, and how he could propitiate them and return home.

President Garfield stated that polygamy offended " the moral sense of manhood " and that the LDS Church, which advocated the practice, prevented the " administration of justice through ordinary instrumentalities of law.

Not only was this tax perceived as exorbitant, but British interests were offended when President Paul Kruger gave monopoly rights for the manufacture of the explosive to a non-British branch of the Nobel company, which infuriated the British.

At the end of the play ( Act 5 Scene 1 ) Puck delivers a speech in which he addresses the audience directly, apologizing for anything that might have offended them and suggesting that they pretend it was a dream:

Kilmer would later write that "... some of the poems in it, those inspired by genuine love, are not things of which to be ashamed, and you, understanding, would not be offended by the others.

They have offended against every principle of decency and there is only way in which they can even begin to restore their tarnished reputation and that is to get out!

In 40 BC, through the mediation of Gaius Asinius Pollio, Ahenobarbus became reconciled to Mark Antony, which greatly offended Octavianus.

Double entendres are very common in the titles and lyrics of pop songs, such as " If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me " by The Bellamy Brothers, which is based on an old Groucho Marx quote, where the person being talked to is asked, by one interpretation if they would be offended, and by the other, if they would press their body against the person doing the talking.

When they landed in Thessaly for that purpose, Butes offended Dionysus by raping Coronis, a Maenad, and was made insane upon her imploration, in which state he threw himself down a well and died.

Matholwch is deeply offended, but conciliated by Bendigeidfran who gives him a magical cauldron which can bring the dead to life, but the downside is that they then are mute.

Matholwch was deeply offended, but was conciliated by Bran who gave him a magical cauldron which could bring the dead to life.

Wheaton's parents were very offended by the article, and he posted a lengthy apology on his site and an interview in which his parents clarified their political views.

When Wilkins inquired about this improved technique, Franklin replied in terms which offended Wilkins as Franklin had " an air of cool superiority ".

In addition to the various personality traits of Rainey's with which all the roommates took issue, Rainey mocked Zamora's Cuban accent, denigrated his career as an educator, and made aforementioned gay-related jokes that offended Zamora.

The French public appeared to have laid more of the blame on President Jacques Chirac, who allegedly said that " the only worse food than British food is Finnish " which is widely believed to have offended two Finnish members of the International Olympic Committee.

Orwell ’ s publisher, Victor Gollancz, was so concerned that these passages would be misinterpreted, and that the ( mostly middle class ) members of the Left Book Club would be offended, that he added a foreword in which he raises some caveats about Orwell's claims in Part Two.

Peckham was particularly offended that Welsh laws sought to get parties to homicides or other crimes to settle their differences rather than the process of English law which condemned the criminal.

In the same year Robinson released One Heartbeat, he was inducted as a solo artist to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, later igniting controversy as the committee had only inducted Robinson but not members of his group, the Miracles, which Robinson himself was personally offended by.

He offended the BBC SO players by demanding that they all stand up when he came on to the platform – which they firmly declined to do.