Sentence examples for desecration on from inspiring English sources
PARIS — France assigned 100 police officers to investigate the desecration on Sunday of 148 Muslim graves in a war cemetery in northern France.
Prime Minister Tony Blair charged today that Saddam Hussein planned to harm Muslim shrines in Iraq and pin responsibility for the desecration on allied troops.
The desecration on April 10 had an extra edge of ominousness because it came on the heels of another local episode rife with allegations of anti-Semitism.
THIS is not desecration on the level of, say, the elected powers in Rome suddenly deciding to take a wrecking ball to the Spanish Steps because they're getting a tad crumbly — an open invitation to lawsuits filed by clumsy tourists.
This minimally invasive approach also helps to avoid cultural barriers to treatment: manipulating a heart is considered an act of desecration on the human soul by some indigenous communities in Bolivia.
PAGE A14 Pressure on Newsweek The White House pressed Newsweek to help repair the damage to the military's image after the magazine retracted an article on desecration of a Koran.
David Brooks, in his analysis of the furor over the recently retracted Newsweek article on desecration of the Koran, effectively counters the inane responses of both the extreme left and right to this incident ("Bashing Newsweek," column, May 19).
"The issue is not only the destruction of a landmark and the desecration of a site on the Underground Railroad," he said.
After Mr. Corzine took several questions from a dozen residents in the lobby, Joseph Spagnola, 67, asked him for his position on the desecration of the American flag.
Andrew Todd, the British architect behind the theatre, which was inspired by Shakespeare's Globe in London, said he deplored in the "strongest possible terms" what he described as a "politically motivated desecration" of the buildings on Friday night.
Human cadavers have been dissected by physicians since at least the 3rd century BC, but throughout history, prevailing religious views on the desecration of corpses often meant that such work was performed in secrecy.
