Sentence examples for detestable acts from inspiring English sources
If any detestable acts were committed, I condemn them, but they were not done on my orders.
Mr. Obama has called Mr. Ayers "somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old".
In April, Mr. Obama said Mr. Ayers was "not somebody who I exchanged ideas from on a regular basis" and called him "somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old".
Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called "somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8".
Here was someone who seemed like a regular guy, even after his crime spree commenced -- and yet he was capable of the most detestable acts imaginable.
They also know that Obama has called Ayers "somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8".
For you must realize that I wouldn't want to sully your house through a detestable act.
When I combine the two parts as a patriotic rabbi, I understand that no sooner do we limit one detestable act than other restrictions may subtly follow, until we reach the point when the hallowed words of the First Amendment become hollow.
Zardari called Congress leader Sonia Ghandi and termed the killing of innocent people a "detestable act" and asked her to convey his grief and sorrow to the people of India and to the families of those who had lost their loved ones.
In retrospect, however, what stands out is the folly of individuals like the Anglophobic writer Harry Elmer Barnes, whom Doenecke quotes: "Had Hitler tortured and then killed every one of the half million Jews living in Germany in 1933 such a foul and detestable act would still have left him a piker compared to Britain's blockade of 1918-19".
But open your Bible to Leviticus and there's a pretty strong signal there in front of you: "If a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed a detestable act: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them".
