Sentence examples for have been defiled from inspiring English sources

5 p.m. 1) HERITAGE HUNT Two and a half years ago, the city enacted a landmark law aimed at protecting the city's heritage districts, which have been defiled in recent decades by concrete block towers and other forces of modernization.

Now, though, now pancakes have been defiled and ruined.

Even the words "Never Again" have been defiled and made inconsequential.

In fact, defilement is a capital offence in cases where the victim has been infected with HIV/Aids virus or is very young and has been defiled by a relative ─ categorised as aggravated defilement.

John Barton may feel aggrieved that the purity of his texts has been defiled.

He said there was no truth in the allegation that the Koran had been defiled.

The resentment felt here is rooted in a belief that Iceland's core virtue of flinty self-reliance has been defiled by its bankers and foreign creditors.

A recent court ruling said that the statue, which was unveiled by Queen Elizabeth in 1998, had been defiled because it had been used in a commercial way, the Telegraph said.

At the end of that dark period, she was overjoyed, she said, to see it was the Gang of Four, a leftist political faction composed of four Communist Party officials who came to prominence during the Cultural Revolution, that had been defiled.

Kamo Mabuchi focused on a study of Japan's most ancient poetry anthology, the Man'yōshū, and other ancient writings, urging a return to ancient ways before Japan had been "defiled" by foreign ideas, such as Confucianism and Buddhism.

The attack in this shabby town in central Pakistan — the culmination of several days of rioting over a claim that a Koran had been defiled — shows how precarious life is for the tiny Christian minority in Pakistan.