Sentence examples for of being defaced from inspiring English sources

Everything from its cryptic name – using the position in the alphabet of the first letters of Eileen Gray's name (E, 7) and of her then-lover Jean Badovici (10, 2) – to its history of being defaced by murals Corbusier painted (while naked) on its walls, a murder, and neglected abandonment, make this the most enigmatic of France's many modernist houses.

Tony Abbott has been urged to speak out more strongly against Islamophobia in Australia following reports of mosques being defaced, women verbally abused on the street and death threats issued to Muslim figures.

The Punjab law minister, Rana Sanaullah, said that the authorities had investigated the allegation of a Koran being defaced but that "our initial reports say that there has not been any incident of desecration".

Mr. Scorsese's 19th-century epic culminates with the 1863 Civil War Draft Riots, which reduced much of the city to a smoking ruin, then fades out with a photomontage of the soaring downtown skyline that emerged out of those ashes only to be defaced on Sept. 11.

First we have the Women of World War II memorial being defaced, now a UKIP MP has been given a fright in the street.

Has the website of the company you work for been defaced recently?

It's not being defaced.

Persepolis was saved!..and so were the many bas-reliefs made in the area by Sassanian Shahs from the first half of the First millennium CE, Some of which were defaced by Moslems in the age of the Abbisd Caliphs.