Sentence examples for act of blasphemy from inspiring English sources

I did not think it was an act of blasphemy.

If someone threatens his reputation, he regards this as an act of blasphemy.

For most Muslims "secularism" remains a loaded term, equated to everything from mild eccentricity to an unnatural act of blasphemy.

Another of the unwritten rules is that you have to live in Hollywood while working there; Figgis was commuting, which was regarded as an act of blasphemy.

Other traditionalists, such as members of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, based in New York, have denounced the burial as an act of blasphemy almost comparable to the 1918 regicide itself.

Patriarch Kirill I, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, addressed the throngs in a deep, booming voice, "Our persecutors would have us believe that the very act of blasphemy, sacrilege, and mockery of the sacred represents lawful free expression that is protected in modern society".

Strapping fellows, in papakhi (the traditional black Astrakhan hats), now patrol the streets of Moscow and Krasnodar to prevent trouble and acts of blasphemy against shrines.

When he went to prison for two weeks in the autumn of 1763, for what police reports described as "acts of blasphemy and sacrilege" performed in the presence of a prostitute, Pelagie had been led to believe that he was in jail for debt.

Prayer not verified by conduct is an act of desecration and blasphemy.

For Man to arrogate that power, goes this argument, is an act of terrible blasphemy.

And any suggestion that it's possible to ratchet down volatility without sacrificing performance would be an act of modern portfolio blasphemy, or a specious marketing ploy.