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 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.
By night, activists exact what they call "price-tags", for instance by defiling mosques, in the hope of provoking a conflict which the well-armed settlers feel sure they could win.
"They are defiling the day of rest".Senior officials have added their voice to the anti-migrant campaign.
"Characteristic demonic activity" includes tempting, hiding, resisting, defying, deceiving, confusing, enslaving, and defiling.
The Pakistani government, which says asylum-seekers are economic migrants defiling the country's image, says it wants nothing to do with them.In 2013 the population of Pakistanis in Sri Lanka swelled.
Footwear must be removed on entering a mosque for fear of defiling the interior with ritually impure substances that may have adhered to the sole of the shoe.
"The idea of a monster like this touching my daughter, stroking her, defiling her perfect little body, just killed me over and over again".
When I was 14, I remember winding up in the headmaster's office for defiling a work folder with a number of graphic swearwords.
Photos of people defiling Nicki Minaj's waxwork have spread so much on social media that Madame Tussauds had to issue a statement saying they were concerned over the 'inappropriate' photographs being taken.
To physically threaten a captive, to sexually humiliate a captives (using female interrogators or pornography), or insult their religion (by defiling the Koran) is abhorrent," Lt-Col Mercer said.
