offend against

基本解释

We mustn't offend against their customs.
我们不能违反他们的风俗。
This would offend against the principle of fairness.
那会违反公正的原则。
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，我认为：教会不能因为宽容的职责而容纳那种劝告之后仍然不断顽固的违反教会法律的人。
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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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