Sentence examples for blasphemy by from inspiring English sources

Malthus was accused of blasphemy by the conventionally religious.

Is General Petraeus, counterinsurgency theory's high priest, committing blasphemy by letting his forces act as if some corruption is permissible?

Last Thursday, he was sentenced to two years in prison for violating a 1965 presidential decree against blasphemy by promoting a heretical interpretation of Islam.

After the death of Frederick I in 1533, however, he was accused of blasphemy by Bishop Joachim Rønnow and expelled from the dioceses of Sjaelland and Skåne.

The buttons reportedly honour Kim and his late father Kim Jong-il, and their depiction would be seen as blasphemy by the regime in Pyongyang.

It was picketed by rabbis and nuns in New York and accused of blasphemy by the bishop of Southwark on British TV.

Apparently he had written something objectionable while doing an exam, although nobody can be told what it was he wrote (lest they be charged with committing blasphemy-by-repetition).

The sources as well as the manner are recognizable: a Nordic myth with factual traces, hopeless love, revenge by murder, blasphemy followed by curses from on high, and final redemption.

There were also unconfirmed reports, apparently originating in an account on Sunday by the Iranian Students News Agencyy, that a religious foundation had enriched its death bounty on Salman Rushdie, the British author whose novel "The Satanic Verses" was deemed a blasphemy punishable by death 23 years ago by Iran's revolutionary icon, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

However, scenes from the far larger demonstrations arranged by a coalition of 20 religious parties against the perceived blasphemy committed by Charlie Hebdo dominated coverage on Pakistan's rolling news channels.

Violating the country's blasphemy law by insulting or interfering with the practice of one of the official faiths can bring a five-year prison term.