They took that step at the suggestion of the Canadian company's board, whose outside directors are resigning next month, apparently in protest.

Why did the square young man from Lehman take offense at the suggestion?

The ambassador couldn't help but be taken aback at the suggestion.

Like any warrior he took immediate offense at the suggestion of sorcery.

I take offense at the suggestion that doctors routinely discriminate in their care.

I have decided, however, to stop taking offense at the suggestion that we are buying influence.

Some celebrities who fill the pages of People might take offense at the suggestion that they are not really people.

But he seemed to take umbrage at the suggestion that he might not be a local.

The test was taken, he said, strictly as a "precautionary" measure at the suggestion of her father's lawyer.

They had chosen to take offense at the suggestion.