| The four knights tried to drag him outside, to avoid aggravating their sacrilege by defiling the sanctuary. |
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| The council, for its part, accused the traders of violating city by-laws and of defiling the environment. |
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| However, the hapu say building houses on the sacred mountain at Ngunguru would be akin to defiling Westminster Abbey or the Vatican. |
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| Should such a central government, steeped in anti-national crimes, defiling the Constitution be allowed to continue? |
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| Teenagers started defiling the lands of their ancestors by holding ecstasy raves on sacred ground. |
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| Always the showman, he once hired a falcon to deter pigeons from defiling their sparkling new offices in Victoria. |
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| When I was 14, I remember winding up in the headmaster's office for defiling a work folder with a number of graphic swearwords. |
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| Burning, defacing, defiling, mutilating, trampling or otherwise desecrating a nation's flag will arouse the anger of all Canadians. |
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| Atalanta and Hippomenes are changed to lions for defiling a sacred shrine. |
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| To have unholy things while being on the holy grounds is the same as defiling the holy grounds and it is rudeness before God. |
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| It is interesting to notice that in the New Testament, this defiling process or spreading can sometimes work in the opposite direction. |
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| I realized that I was defiling my lungs and body and I soon felt a strong and impelling desire to quit smoking. |
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| Together, however, we can become one people under one God, neither divided among ourselves nor defiling the covenant of the Lord. |
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| Today, Dolly preceded me, and there came another great kerfuffle as she thundered over to the fountain, intent on murdering the avian intruder who was defiling her property. |
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| Half a million visitors a year have taken their toll on the place, defiling the green shores and slopes of Walden Pond through the erosive effect of their activity. |
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| By defiling this sacred ground, you have released an ancient evil spirit. |
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| Every track appears to be addressed to a female, and these jousters are comfortable bragging about punching, kicking and shamelessly defiling the female in question. |
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| A 13 year old girl was illegally married to a 45 year old villager, who was sentenced to five years by the Babati District Court because of evidence that he was defiling a girl while knowing that she was under age. |
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| Footwear must be removed on entering a mosque for fear of defiling the interior with ritually impure substances that may have adhered to the sole of the shoe. |
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| The Pakistani government, which says asylum-seekers are economic migrants defiling the country's image, says it wants nothing to do with them. In 2013 the population of Pakistanis in Sri Lanka swelled. |
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| This dangerous and defiling acid emerges as we seek to defend ourselves. |
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| The menstruater is defiled and defiling because, as she bleeds, she strays beyond the socialized towards the realm of death. |
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| Some courts are providing redress by sentencing husbands and fathers for acts relating to forced marriage such as detaining and defiling children. |
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| It also criminalized defiling a place of worship, trespassing in a burial place with the intent of insulting a religion and deliberately offending religious feelings. |
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| All the heads of the priesthood, and the people too, added infidelity to infidelity, copying all the shameful practices of the nations and defiling the Temple that the Lord had consecrated for himself in Jerusalem. |
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| The image of David Cameron, the British prime minister, defiling a pig knocks him down to our level, or slightly below us – I don't know many pig defilers at this stage. |
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| The 'money changers' provided currency that was acceptable in the Temple in exchange for the Roman currency which was considered defiling to God as it bore the image of Caesar, the Roman Emperor. |
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