(n.) The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses.
Example Sentences:
(1) The organisation, whose name means "non-Islamic education is sacrilege", is fighting to impose a strict interpretation of sharia law across Africa's most populous country.
(2) Devout Muslims consider it a sacrilege for infidels to depose a Muslim tyrant and occupy Muslim lands — no matter how well intentioned the infidels or malevolent the tyrant.
(3) Responsible for close to 200 deaths so far this year, Boko Haram, whose name means "Non-Islamic Education is sacrilege", wants to extend sharia law – already in place in some northern states – across Nigeria's 160 million-strong population, which is evenly split between Muslim and Christian.
(4) Boko Haram, whose name means "western education is sacrilege" in Hausa, wants to implement strict Sharia law and avenge the deaths of Muslims in communal violence across Nigeria , a multi-ethnic nation of more than 160 million people split largely into a Christian south and Muslim north.
(5) Boko Haram, which means "western education is sacrilege" in the Hausa language of Nigeria's north, wants to implement strict sharia law and avenge the deaths of Muslims in communal violence across Nigeria , a multiethnic nation of more than 160 million people split largely into a Christian south and Muslim north.
(6) Furthermore, some people seem to think that hip-hop is supposed to be a serious thing and treating it humorously is sacrilege.
(7) Madonna review – mistress of sex, sacrilege and stairs Read more Bishop Dunn’s condemnation followed a complaint made by the archbishop of Singapore when the Rebel Heart tour stopped there last month.
(8) Critics regard the very suggestion that there is a way to take CO2 out of the air, reversing fossil-fuel pollution, as sacrilege.
(9) Boko Haram, whose name means "western education is sacrilege", is responsible for at least 510 killings last year alone, according to Associated Press.
(10) But dropping a bomb on a football stadium … sacrilege!
(11) Whisky, you have to wait years.” He fetched coffee – “Sacrilege, really, but there are times when only caffeine will do” – followed by a glass of the seasonal brew (Santa Paws; made with plums, dates, mixed fruit and a hint of star anise; unexpectedly drinkable).
(12) "It seems inadmissible that an international cultural evening, paying homage to one of the greatest contemporary film-makers, is used by police to apprehend him," the directors said as they decried the sacrilege.
(13) Some critics question whether a six-minute horse dance to music is really sport but dressage lovers pour scorn on such sacrilege.
(14) It's freezing Yeah Yeah Yeahs' new Sacrilege video , features Lily Cole copulating with an entire town: men, women in stockings, a vicar, all the usual suspects.
(15) We've been accused of sacrilege, of displaying a certain amount of brass neck in reworking something so revered as The Ladykillers.
(16) The table on which it was signed is locked away in a storeroom at Belfast City Hall, having been rescued from council workmen who committed the near sacrilege of mixing cement on it.
(17) There were people who sought to "justify and downplay this sacrilege", he said.
(18) Since glorious Technicolor, pretty much, the idea of a woman with wit has been cinematic sacrilege.
(19) As acts of sacrilege in South Africa go, it's hard to beat.
(1) "There is nothing sacrilegious here, but a clear desire to ruin the mood in our city."
(2) Who will be there to tell others no, you can’t mine there, to do so would be “sacrilegious”?
(3) In a letter to a corporation official, Cottam wrote: "Desecration: graffiti have been scratched and painted on to the great west doors of the cathedral, the chapter house door and most notably a sacrilegious message painted on to the restored pillars of the west portico.
(4) Stravinsky was shocked - he regarded the idea as sacrilegious.
(5) It might sound sacrilegious on a day like this, but budgets aren't generally that important.
(6) Did your family worry that Father Ted was sacrilegious?
(7) Many people are still uneasy about entering a church, worried about doing something wrong or sacrilegious, and fretful about the chance of both giving offence or being evangelised.
(8) It felt heady, almost sacrilegious, to chuck out Iris Murdoch's A Fairly Honourable Defeat , but in the end we decided that this long account of mischief among the chattering classes was probably not her best novel; and I was sad to lose David Lodge's sweet coming-of-age novel Out of the Shelter , which is set in Heidelberg, Germany, shortly after the war.
(9) On Monday three supreme court judges considered whether his painting, Bharat Mata (Mother India), which depicts a nude woman on her knees creating the shape of a map of India, was sacrilegious.
(10) Even the records she made with Stock Aitken Waterman in the late 80s, a collaboration which seemed sacrilegious at the time, are animated by the power and sincerity of her voice.
(11) I know that sounds a bit sacrilegious, but could it be that THE ECOLOGY is actually the biggie?
(12) There was the shock and the grief at the loss of 298 people on a commercial airliner that had nothing whatsoever to do with the war on the ground; there was the disorderly and at times sacrilegious treatment of the crash site; and there were the bitter recriminations about blame.
(13) We've had blasphemous teddy bears and sacrilegious frogs , but this week a new religious animal quivered in the spotlight, as a Saudi cleric insisted that all mice should be killed – including Mickey Mouse.
(14) In the evening we get back into the car - a sacrilegious lump in the Posada's drive - and head a few minutes back down the coast to the tiny village of La Juanita, to La Olada, a restaurant on the front porch of a local chef's house.
(15) Revealing anything about the plot to somebody who hasn’t seen it yet has been treated as practically sacrilegious.