offend against

基本解释

We mustn't offend against their customs.
我們不能違反他們的風俗。
This would offend against the principle of fairness.
那會違反公正的原則。
And, first, I hold that no church is bound, by the duty of toleration, to retain any such person in her bosom as, after admonition, continues obstinately to offend against the laws of the society.
首先，我認爲：教會不能因爲寬容的職責而容納那種勸告之後仍然不斷頑固的違反教會法律的人。
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It would offend against the principle of free expression, he said: a principle revered in America, but not in Iran.
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But who is to decide which restrictions are reasonable and which offend against what the Supreme Court has now declared to be a fundamental right?
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As for that other fight, against Saddam, Guinea is in a pickle, anxious to offend neither France nor America.
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