What's the difference between arson and vandalism?

Arson


Definition:

  • (n.) The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
  • (2) Anuraj Sivarajah, online editor of the newspaper, said he was very clear who was to blame for the attacks and arson that has brought the newspaper near financial ruin.
  • (3) Other sources were monosodium methylarsenate (4 cases), dodecyl ammonium methane arsonate (5 cases), and other compounds (12 cases).
  • (4) It was found that 2-3% of splenic T cells from arsonate-immune mice specifically bound the hapten using immunofluorescent keyhole limpet hemocyanin as a carrier.
  • (5) | Chibundu Onuzo Read more Eva Lohse, the president of the German Association of Cities, said on Thursday: “We’re reaching the limits of our capacity.” As tensions mount in some communities over locals’ fears of being overrun, there have been several arson attacks on a number of refugee shelters in recent weeks, with reports at the weekend of a home near Leipzig being shot at on two consecutive nights.
  • (6) While some politicians have sought to condemn the intolerance, such as President Joachim Gauck, who called the arson attacks “repulsive”, and warned that xenophobic attitudes had “hardened”, others, such as Horst Seehofer, the head of Bavaria’s conservative Christian Social Union party, have been accused of helping to fuel anti-foreigner feeling with repeated references to “en masse asylum abuse”.
  • (7) The Grade II-listed scenic railway, devastated by an arson attack in 2008, has been rebuilt, wooden slat by wooden slat, back to its rickety, grinding glory.
  • (8) Locke and Wood are also accused of arson of a bench in Parliament Square.
  • (9) First, three out of four arsonate-reactive T cell clones tested (two I-Ad-and one I-Ak-restricted) utilized V alpha 3.
  • (10) Friday’s arson attack is thought to be an act of revenge for the Israeli security forces’ demolition of two buildings in the settlement of Beit El earlier this week, which were deemed illegal by the Israeli supreme court.
  • (11) His family broke up amid arson, death, poverty and madness, and he left his Oklahoma home at 18 to begin a lifelong habit of taking to the open road.
  • (12) The most common crimes were those against life and health--62.5%; predominantly homicides, assaults and assaults on public functioning, as well as arson--10%.
  • (13) She was later sentenced to an additional 20 years for crimes against abortion clinics and practitioners, including arson and acid attacks.
  • (14) We have used polyclonal antisera raised against an azobenzene arsonate (ABA)-specific TABM secreted by an ABA-specific T cell hybrid or against TNP-specific polypeptides produced by immunoregulatory T cells to identify the expression of soluble (secreted) or membrane-associated TABM.
  • (15) Loyalists involved in targeting the cross-community Alliance party in a series of arsons and attacks on homes have been accused of putting the life of a young child at risk.
  • (16) Coulter said that following the arson attack on her home, Northern Ireland's first minister, Peter Robinson, should consider withdrawing all funding to UDA-related community projects.
  • (17) The beheading of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr triggered demonstrations and an arson attack at the Saudi embassy in Tehran.
  • (18) The approach is based on the analysis of T cell populations required to induce B cells to secrete anti-arsonate antibodies that are marked by a cross-reactive idiotype (CRId).
  • (19) Recent studies implicate disturbances of central serotonergic functions in impulsive homicide and arson.
  • (20) Two suppressor T cell hybridomas studied (34s-18 and 34s-704) are specific for keyhole limpet hemocyanin, a protein antigen, and the other suppressor T cell hybridoma (51H7D) binds specifically to the arsonate hapten.

Vandalism


Definition:

  • (n.) The spirit or conduct of the Vandals; ferocious cruelty; hostility to the arts and literature, or willful destruction or defacement of their monuments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The problem in the community is that the elderly who live on their own on ground floors are frightened to open the windows because of vandalism and burglary," he says.
  • (2) There could be no doubt who these deliberate vandals were, either: unelected members of the House of Lords, and the 48% of the country who failed to vote for Brexit.
  • (3) Tory toffs repelling undesirable immigrants, providing better schools, using welfare reform as a pathway to work, clearing vandals, yobs and drunks from the streets and standing up to our masters in Brussels would be very popular, and the word would soon be forgotten.
  • (4) Will Francis, director, Vandal London Facebook Twitter Pinterest Will has worked with a variety of global brands including Net-a-Porter, Samsung, Spotify, Microsoft, Warner Music and Nike Foundation to innovate in social media, something he’s been doing since his days as editor of MySpace in the mid-late noughties.
  • (5) They know the truth, as we did on Saturday, that the march really could be the start of a fightback against economic and social vandalism.
  • (6) Vandals have spray painted the word “evil” across a far north Queensland mosque – an act the local mayor describes as deeply saddening.
  • (7) "We must make sure that those who want to advertise [with] women's images in the city can do so without fear of vandalism and defacement of billboards or buses showing women," he has said.
  • (8) Clegg also defended the right of local authorities to consider evicting the families of vandals and looters but stressed that the issue had to be dealt with carefully and sensitively.
  • (9) A cost-benefit analysis indicated that potential savings, primarily in reduced vandalism but also in reduced police and fire costs, greatly exceeded the cost of mounting the program.
  • (10) In response to Rousseff's promises and concerns about the vandalism that followed clashes with police, the organisers plan to set new guidelines for the protests.
  • (11) In the micro-economics of obscure music promotion the vandalism of a cloth cyclops dispenser could be the point at which your break-even point disappears over the event horizon.
  • (12) The chief of public security said that such acts of vandalism did not come under the definition of freedom of expression protected by the law.
  • (13) Cemetery remains exposed through vandalism or natural phenomena are frequently brought to the attention of law enforcement agents or medical examiners.
  • (14) There’s no graffiti, no vandalism and scarcely any crime.
  • (15) I can already feel it piling into the garbage segment of my political memory, so that one day in the future, Javid’s oaths will have become I, the undersigned, do hereby promise to defend John Major’s cones around Theresa May’s racist vans , protect them from the vandalism of ridicule, because that is the British way; to tolerate views you disagree with, including this stupid oath.
  • (16) Being a toddler, she toddled a bit; she knocked over a bottle of Dettol spray, and in a staggering act of pre-school vandalism, broke the nozzle.
  • (17) This violence and vandalism is disgraceful criminal behaviour.
  • (18) Public school vandalism was investigated with a sample of students in 7th through 12th grade.
  • (19) "This behaviour was criminal behaviour," said Johnson of the recent riots – but in the past his attitude to vandalism has been more nuanced.
  • (20) They have been reviled as vandals, hooligans and lunatics.