"Our marketing is meant to be cute and humorous in a way that's not offensive but understands who the customer is, " O'Brien says.
Suarez, who was publicly supported by his manager Kenny Dalglish and teammates, argued before the panel that the use of he word "negro" was not offensive.
As Eli Lake from The Washington Times demonstrated convincingly, by speaking as she did, Gottemoeller effectively abrogated a 40-year-old US-Israeli understanding that the US would remain silent about Israel's nuclear program because it understood that it was defensive, not offensive in nature.
The Trust's editorial standards committee ruled that Mr Paxman was not deliberately offensive and said it did not believe the Newsnight item was biased.
Reid also warned he would not tolerate offensive chanting by his own club's supporters.
Technological invasions of privacy are still not as offensive as the hands-on variety.
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Al-Arabiya is writing the name in Arabic in a way that makes clear it is not the offensive word.
For starters, the idea that value creation is a one-way street from the top to the bottom is not just offensive, but it ignores the principle of comparative advantage, a key breakthrough in market theory.
"Mr. Kan is a skillful politician when on the offensive, forcefully breaking through and overcoming barriers but crisis management and day-to-day communication with the public is not an offensive skill, " said Yukio Edano, Mr. Kan's chief spokesman during the height of the crisis, told reporters last month.
"Once out of the car, we make it very clear that we're not there to be offensive to them, we're not there to hurt him, and we're only there to have a talk to them about what they're doing, " Scumm Buster said.
Evangelicals in St Paul sighed that secular Democrats probably did not realise how offensive this was.
He said his contractors do not engage in offensive or military operations - only defensive.
Now of course different jurisdictions have different laws but to my mind the problem here is not people being offensive or making threats.
Such reaction was "offensive not so much to me personally but to the free choice of the Italians", he said in a statement.
But the group, consisting of wheat growers and baking suppliers, has not mounted an offensive to counteract the "carbs are evil" marketing by some food companies.
The closing down and physicality from the Dutch champions did not let an offensive-orientated Spurs side settle and the visitors were almost rewarded for their hard work early on.
The reinforcement of front-line positions by Croatia does not mean an offensive is imminent, military analysts said, suggesting that it may be aimed at turning up the pressure on the Serbs.
Yugoslav officials say the ethnic Albanian refugees leaving Kosovo have been driven from their homes by fighting between Albanian separatists of the Kosovo Liberation Army and Serb forces, not by any offensive against civilians.
He claimed he had not meant to be offensive, had used the blog "to let off steam", but had not intended any harm.
The statement said that while some language used by Miss Brown was offensive, particularly derogatory comments about particular social groups, it did not believe they were grossly offensive.
Such an offensive would not be pleasant to behold, but it would be successful and decisive.
You should have published some of the cartoons, whether you thought them offensive or not.
In other words, it would be allowed to take the offensive and not just a defensive stand.
Now the evolution of the debate has gone to whether or not women serve in offensive combat positions.
"It's a little bit scary because we're not the best zone offensive team, " Creighton guard Ally Jensen said.
The greatest damage to the jihadis' moral standing has been wrought not by the global offensive but by their own brutality.
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar announced the deployment Tuesday but insisted the troops would not take part in offensive combat operations.
The United States has threatened to withdraw before the conference's September 7 end date if language it considers offensive is not removed.
The statement from the information ministry said the military would "follow the command of the president not to carry out offensive attacks except in self-defence".
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