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Defiled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Defile

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To most of us, Ken Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian activist and a martyr, a brave and inspiring campaigner who led his Ogoni people's struggle against the decades-long defilement of their land by Big Oil, and ended up paying for it with his life.
  • (2) He told the Weekend Nation: "Malawians must understand that the person they employed as the president of their country … has defiled the conditions of service."
  • (3) Hindu nationalists want to make India great again.” Hindu nationalism is rooted in the belief that Muslim and British invasions defiled Hindu culture and values, which are seen as synonymous with those of India, writes Syracuse professor Prema Kurien in her book A Place at the Multicultural Table: the Development of an American Hinduism .
  • (4) for bladder neck and prostatic obstructions because the risk of jatrogenic defilement, and any method of preventing, reducing or delaying the occurrence of infection in catheterized patients, should be tooking considerations.
  • (5) In outdoor factory environments many defiling substances are produced by different working processes.
  • (6) Many Sunnis regard the Alevis as infidels and believe that to share their food is to be defiled.
  • (7) When a young unmarried girl gets pregnant, the man may be accused of "defilement" - rape.
  • (8) Kancha Sherpa, the sole surviving member of Hillary's expedition, believes the melting glaciers are a punishment for defiling nature.
  • (9) Various surgical techniques were employed, such as refixation at the processus coracoideus, tenodesis in the sulcus intertubercularis, keyhole operation, in combination with an intraarticular inspection, revision, or if necessary widening of a narrow passage ("defile").
  • (10) Most dangerously, we see it in the way that religion is used to justify the murder of innocents by those who have distorted and defiled the great religion of Islam, and who attacked my country from Afghanistan.
  • (11) Among that majority, count the man who could have defied it and thereby defiles the term “leader of the opposition”, because that’s exactly what he’s not.
  • (12) We don’t want anything tomorrow to happen that would defile the name of Michael Brown,” he said.
  • (13) Several hemorheologic and plasma proteic features were analyzed in workers exposed to acoustic defilement.
  • (14) In all cases, the approach was done through the anterior way, with up thoracic defile exploration and mobilizing upper limb.
  • (15) Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.
  • (16) Initially (at 2 cm depth), high radioactivity is always detected, which among other things is caused by the defilement of the bullet's surface when shot through the textile covering marked by technetium.
  • (17) The exposition to acoustic defilement during work activity may be considered as aetiological factor for the development and progression of sensorineural hearing impairment, and more extensively for the occurrence of cardiovascular complications.
  • (18) Abbas, in a speech two weeks ago, warned of religious war, and with the same breath accused Jews of defiling the Jerusalem mosques.
  • (19) It’s not just someone strangling and poisoning, it’s physically defiling women.
  • (20) He has defiled the Holocaust, which is sacrosanct for the Jewish people, with absurd historical inaccuracies.

Deviled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Devil

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From Africa, the archbishop of Kenya warned "the devil has entered the church", while a few days before the ceremony Robinson received a postcard from England, depicting the high altar of Durham cathedral and bearing the message: "You fornicating, lecherous pig."
  • (2) Those with no idea of what he looks like might struggle to identify this modest figure as one of the world's most exalted film-makers, or the red devil loathed by rightwing pundits from Michael Gove down.
  • (3) So, in The Devil Wears Prada , the ferocious magazine chief played by Meryl Streep is beset by secret misery: unfaithful husband, tricky kids, wig issues.
  • (4) The experience of having had intercourse with the devil has in the past been regarded as evidence that the individual is a witch.
  • (5) Photograph: Alamy The Devils Postpile, near Mammoth Lakes on the east side of Yosemite, looks as if it might have been created by some satanic sculptor, but really it's just one of the world's best examples of columnar basalt, a similar geological feature to the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland.
  • (6) "The devil is in the detail and if the conditions are too much it could be very challenging to run it as a commercial operation," said one source.
  • (7) I do want to rule the world.” Bowie was also getting unhealthily interested in the occult; in her memoir, his then wife Angie Bowie describes how he was convinced that the indoor pool in their house in Doheny Drive was possessed by the devil , which led to the pair of them attempting an exorcism.
  • (8) Camille O'Sullivan In 2007, the sinister, humorous gem Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea spread like wildfire just after its opening, and you had to kill to get a ticket.
  • (9) Taking out such a deal was, in their view, tantamount to getting into bed with the devil – and certainly out of the question for a prudent financial journalist.
  • (10) Mitt Romney praises Trump after 'deal with the devil' dinner Read more “It’s not about revenge, it’s about what’s good for the country, and I’m able to put this stuff behind us,” Trump said in a television interview on NBC’s Today show on Friday.
  • (11) An entire generation has come to embrace the deflationary devil they know.
  • (12) Instead, Schieffer repeatedly pushed even Hayden to go further in his defense of the NSA and in his attacks on Snowden than Hayden wanted to, asking such tough "questions" like this one, about Obama's proposal to have a "devils' advocate in the FISA court: "BOB SCHIEFFER: Well-- well let me just cite an example and let's say that the NSA runs across something that they think an attack on the country is imminent-- "GENERAL MICHAEL HAYDEN: Right.
  • (13) Some tours take tourists to mask shops; we should be taking them to the mask makers, so that they get paid for their work directly.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A fearsome devil mask Photograph: Alamy The current government, which replaced Rajapaksa’s administration two years ago, has made a commitment to sustainable tourism.
  • (14) Meanwhile, a number of writers have publicly come out against the second deal – including Ursula Le Guin, who resigned from the Authors Guild amid accusations that it was making a "deal with the devil" and selling its members "down the river" .
  • (15) The official code of conduct for special advisers adopts legalistic terms to describe their key role as "devilling", or squirrelling away at all government policy and communications to ensure it toes the appropriate political line.
  • (16) Once Leveson has published, the debate will finally be at this level of detail because that is where the devil is.
  • (17) In addition, Tyson had told the Mail on Sunday : “There are only three things that need to be accomplished before the Devil comes home.
  • (18) Debbie Abrahams, shadow work and pensions secretary, said: “As ever with this government though, the devil is in the detail.
  • (19) The "Death Angels" believed they had a better chance of getting to heaven if they killed some of these "grafted snakes" and "blue-eyed devils".
  • (20) On a trip to the Near East, Dadd became deluded that the Egyptian god Osiris was directing him to eliminate the devil's influence.

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