Sentence examples for considered polluted from inspiring English sources
"The lagoa is no longer considered polluted.
In prewar Japan, sufferers were turned over to the secret police by medical authorities, while patients and other disabled people were considered "polluted", and "stains on the flag of the Rising Sun".
Thus, in the case of death, if relatives on the father's side but not on the mother's side are considered polluted by the death, it may be theorized that this is one of the society's ways of emphasizing the greater social significance of the patrilateral relatives in the kinship system.
In addition, water that is considered polluted is often left for livestock and/or irrigation purposes.
Menstrual blood is considered polluted in almost all Hindu scriptures and menstruating women are kept away from Hindu worship and temples.
While Shiva simply ignored Kauri-bai's words at first, after his marriage his wife Parvati could not bear Kauri-bai's abusive words toward her husband and cursed Kauri-bai to be reborn in and spend her entire lifetime within an "untouchable" area of Varanasi which Kauri-bai considered polluted.
The functions of the human body are, for the most part, universally considered polluting, although all functions are not considered polluting in all cultures.
Though these four major categories indicate the great diversity of phenomena considered polluting cross-culturally, no one culture considers every item noted in these categories as polluting.
These lower castes, to some extent, are considered polluting because they engage in professions that have been or are associated with the physiological processes or with violence.
Furthermore, within a single culture, not every item considered polluting is necessarily polluting to every member of the society, because the connotation of pollution often is dependent upon the occasion and on the status of a person.
By voluntarily performing actions considered polluting or degrading, like collecting human waste and living with untouchables, Gandhi earned the right to offer new definitions of what was uplifting and purifying — definitions that were both spiritual and political.
