Sentence examples for amounts to desecration from inspiring English sources
The most vocal opponents are not skiers, but a Navajo tribe that says the plan amounts to desecration of the mountains.
In an op-ed in Newsday, Arthur Caplan, the founding director of N.Y.U.'s Division of Medical Ethics and perhaps the best-known bioethicist in the country, wrote, "Keeping her on a ventilator amounts to desecration of a body".
Alternately, to turn Jewish and Christian faiths into generic philosophies for civil purposes is to misunderstand whatever in them ever gave people hope or power, and amounts to a desecration.
Soon afterward, as the church reopened, Pietro Sambi, the Vatican's Jerusalem representative, in tailored robes trimmed in purple, entered the church, surveyed the evidence of recent occupation -- abandoned soup bowls and cooking gas cylinders -- and pronounced that this did not amount to formal desecration.
That's why for many, the news amounted to the literal violation of a haven and the metaphorical desecration of a sanctuary.
Exports amounted to $593.4 billion.
Neither amounted to much.
The goal is to make detainees react emotionally to the desecration.
His mother did not attend, and he was buried in an unmarked grave to prevent desecration.
