"If this reached you and you don't give a hoot that I'm leaving, sorry, " he wrote, explaining that he didn't want to offend anyone by leaving them out.
Maybe because Barack Obama did not want to offend Muslim sensibilities by such a show of force.
Not so depositors, who see themselves paying the cost of bankers' mismanagement and the government's reluctance to offend political allies by closing some banks that are near to collapse.
Recent statistics show the number of people given community sentences who re-offend has fallen sharply by 13%.
And there will no longer be any suggestion that analysts' recommendations are influenced by traders, or by corporate financiers anxious not to offend present or putative clients.
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Lots of lovely pictures and no awkward speeches to be parsed by the press, nothing to offend, just a wholesome image that nearly every American can warm.
"It was not our intention to offend anyone, and we apologize if anyone was offended by the card, " MBNA spokesman Jim Donohue said.
Used to be that an analyst could make a good living by putting out plausible earnings forecasts and taking care not to offend any of his employer's investment banking clients.
This dependence on incarceration was linked to the belief that street crime is committed by persistent "high-rate" offenders who will continue to offend if they are not locked up.
He seized on a statement issued by the US embassy in Cairo, which condemned "the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims - as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions".
It means that both the PPP and, especially, the other main party, the Pakistan Muslim League (N), led by Nawaz Sharif, have a bank of religious-minded voters whom they must be careful not to offend.
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