Sentence examples for defiled from inspiring English sources
In Hōnen's view, Sakyamuni and Amida function as paired aspects of a movement of compassionate activity in teaching and guiding, out of true reality into the defiled world, and out from the defiled world into "the supreme Pure Land" that is the abode of all buddhas.
None of them is to be defiled.
Indeed belief in the prophethood of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad itself was blasphemous, because it defiled the name of the Prophet Muhammad a capital crime.Ali Dayan Hasan of Human Rights Watch points out that while the government persecutes Ahmadi some 400 Ahmadis have been charged in the past decade it rarely brings cases against the perpetrators of anti-Ahmadi violence.
Alan Dershowitz, an outspoken professor at Harvard Law School and an avowed Gore supporter, charges these judges with partisanship that has "defiled their places in history".The language is harsh.
Minutes after the start of a peaceful march by several tens of thousands through the centre of Rome, masked protesters looted a supermarket, defiled a church, set cars alight and battled police in a square near a cathedral.
And where the interstates do cut through virgin prairie, infrastructure advocates will have the opposite problem: convincing environmentalists and locals that a landscape already sliced in half by I-Whatever should be further defiled.
Even if it doesn't end up a national obsession, the US Skins doesn't defile the legacy of the original.
The Towers of Silence in Mumbai (and places such as Hyderabad) have found an alternative in powerful solar concentrators which desiccate the corpse admittedly not in the half-hour that a hungry flock of vultures accomplished, but which still keep to Zarathushtra's injunction not to defile the elements.
HITLER moustaches and swastikas defiling pictures of Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, have become a recurring motif in the iconography of the euro crisis, most recently in Cyprus.
The trial against the members of Pussy Riot provides an opportunity to use the language of moral outrage to paint those opposed to Mr Putin and the Russian government as louche and untrustworthy, the embodiments of exactly the sort of outside forces that seek to defile Russia and its traditions.Religious and bureaucratic tongues have become blurred.
The planet's air and water are becoming ever more polluted.Human activity is thus defiling the earth, and humanity may end up killing itself in the process.The "litany" of environmental fears is not backed up by evidenceThe trouble is, the evidence does not back up this litany.
