Sentence examples for desecrate from inspiring English sources

"I would desecrate the memory of all those Kashmiris who were forced to live on half-empty stomachs... by joining an event sponsored with the wealth accumulated from such exploitation".

Fears that the Taliban might desecrate the wall in Helmand reportedly motivated the decision to bring it home.

On two occasions, in 1989 and 1990, the Supreme Court has ruled that to desecrate the flag is a right protected by the first amendment's guarantee of free speech.

Some Indian tribes contend that a new line will violate their treaty rights, desecrate some of their sacred sites, and (a more modern complaint) cause pollution.The opponents are already discussing plans to fight the DM&E in court.

IN AN op-ed in the Washington Post, Jim DeMint and Robert Rector of the conservative Heritage Foundation desecrate the methods of sound social science as well as the memory of the sainted dead.

Some of them, calling themselves "the Union of David's Descendants", even desecrate Muslim and Christian property.

Traditionally, both groups treat the day in question (Thursday or Friday) as a day of rest, on which there is no tilling of the land and no burying of the dead, and all acts that may desecrate the earth are avoided.

"An opencast coalmine at Druridge Bay would desecrate the local landscape, be a tragedy for the region's tourism and a disaster for the climate.

Egypt's kindly people would surely not desecrate the memory of any great Egyptian leader, however cruelly he ruled them.

Everything one needs to know about the real state of justice in Russia can be seen in how Magnitsky's killers have all gone free and the state continues to  desecrate his memory and  terrorise his family".

Armed with hammers and drills in the Mosul Museum, the five-minute clip shows Isis members desecrate several large statues which are hundreds of years old.