Rob Manuel

How do you know Hollywood is getting serious about video games? They want to make one of their own. In 'Defiance,' the remaining humans on Earth, as well as alien species looking for a new home, find themselves settling for peace after a massive war desecrated the world and destroyed most of the alien ships along with it.

Businessman

Fidel Castro

Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.

Statesman

Franz Wright

We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or what caused a certain action which resulted in the fulfillment or the desecration and collapse of what we most cared for in life.

American Poet

Josh Tillman

I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.

American Musician

Letitia Baldrige

When somebody throws something out the car window, honk at them, but don't give them the finger. We've got to temper our negative feelings about people who desecrate the environment.

American Writer

Monica Lewinsky

This was a mutual relationship, mutual on all levels, right from the way it started and all the way through. I don't accept that he had to completely desecrate my character.

American Celebrity

Kenny Marchant

Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote.

American Politician

Wendell Berry

There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.

Larry Craig

Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.

Rocco Buttiglione

We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.

Use 'desecrate' for places or objects held sacred, often implying an intentional act of disrespect.

Sacred Spaces

'Desecrate' is commonly used in religious situations, bringing to mind serious acts of blasphemy.

Religious Context

Describing an action as 'desecration' suggests a strong, negative moral judgement.

Severe Offense

Use 'desecrate' for disrespecting places or things of significant non-religious value.

Beyond Religion

'Desecrate' can be used metaphorically for violating the sanctity of an abstract concept.

Metaphorical Use

'Desecrate' also refers to harm against cultural symbols or heritage.

Cultural Harm

 the spanish and the inca until the incan empire is finally conquered by the spanish conquistadors and it the story takes place after that so the inca have now been conquered their sacred temples same sacred sites have been you know desecrated their gold which was a symbol of life itself has

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 Actually, the state of the river before entering the medina is pretty healthy. Then pollution takes its toll, mainly due to untreated sewage and chemical dumping from crafts such as tanning. At some point, I couldn't bear the desecration of the river, such an important part of my city,

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 we come from them, they are mothers, they are visionaries, they are the future. If you think that the U.N. now says that one out of three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in their lifetime, we're talking about the desecration of the primary resource of the planet,

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 otherwise, it will be desecrated by someone who doesn't understand that value. So I want to finish up tonight by talking about sacred things. When we were naming the site in Cancun, we named it a museum for a very important and simple museums are places of preservation,

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 one hears the haunting echoes of the damaged and missing mosaics and icons, desecrated and looted during the Latin Occupation in the Fourth Crusade. Within the floor, the tomb inscription of Enrico Dandolo, the Venetian ruler who commanded the campaign,

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 though the project was unfinished. None of the four figures had torsos, as intended, and rubble was left piled below. To the Lakota, the monument was a desecration. And the presidents immortalized on the rockface

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 He'd ransacked, desecrated the temple. And the great gold vessels of the temple in Jerusalem had been taken to Babylon. Belshazzar, his son, decides to have a feast. And in order to make it even more exciting,

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 evangelical Christians around the world waited and again the end did not count so some believers reinterpreted the prophecy they propose that the Antichrist must desecrate the temple in

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 revere and whose waters we consider holy yeah we remain silent about his desecration tanneries claim the pollution is caused

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 this desecration is unwise we should not ransack their supple curse

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