Sentence examples for as desecration from inspiring English sources

Hardliners condemned the cheering as "desecration of the Islamic holy month".

"Intolerable," fumes the general secretary of Mr Kohl's Christian Democratic Union, who sees the inclusion of the Eisler tune (rather a stirring one, actually) as desecration.

A federal fire-management plan is being denounced by some leaders of the Western Shoshone National Council as desecration of aboriginal land.

Still, the album works I would say, because Daniel clearly has a love for the material he's messing with - it's at least as much exploration as desecration.

They were regarded as desecration when they first appeared in the 1960's but are now viewed simply as flags of another color.

Over the past couple of months there have been arson and other attacks on mosques in Hemel Hempstead, Leicester, Scunthorpe, Stoke and Kingston, as well as desecration of a Muslim graveyard and fire-bombing of a halal shop.

Watson and Ryan hope that their maps might act as digital memorials, which can circulate fluidly and are not as vulnerable to desecration.

The High Court ruling came after a number of court cases brought by a determined group of farmers, academics, environmentalists, other professionals and just plain folk who banded together as the Burren Action Group to fight what they saw as a desecration of this unique landscape.

Organ donation rates in Israel are among the lowest in the developed world, about one-third the rate in Western Europe, in large part because of what Health Ministry officials and doctors describe as a widespread impression that Jewish religious law prohibits transplants as a "desecration of the body".

What some saw as a beautiful moment between parent and child, others saw as a desecration of the flag.

There are many smaller outrages, such as the desecration of Jewish graves.