| But compared with sickness that is always real and palpable, defilement not resulting from disease, is fictional. |
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| Ancient Maori who ate their adversaries as an act of defilement or humiliation transformed the act into noa. |
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| Lepers were separated in leper hospitals built with private charity because people were afraid of defilement. |
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| Among these communities, economic interdependence was inescapable but the boundaries of defilement remained. |
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| Kant proclaimed it the worst conceivable defilement of a person's humanity. |
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| What's remarkable about his filmmaking is the ability to present scenes of shocking defilement without a hint of prurience or gratuitousness. |
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| Jesus seems neither to have confirmed nor to have denied that eating impure food leads to ritual defilement. |
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| Hence, the Docetists taught that since Christ is holy, He could never have had the defilement of human flesh. |
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| They wish to pursue the application of the Levitical understanding of defilement on the Church and to accept as binding all assembly judgements. |
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| Others in our fellowship understand that this defilement by association occurs only when in public. |
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| I do not have at hand the books and tools necessary to trace the development of this teaching on defilement. |
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| In some contexts, black represents darkness, evil, death, and defilement. |
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| Spiritual impurity or moral defilement starts on the inside. |
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| But this issue of association and defilement, as some have been teaching and practising among us, has a number of serious problems. |
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| Trapped between amnesia and overdeveloped memory, defilement and escalation of analysis, the Lebanese are fighting no matter what memories they have chosen, today still, the war throws its oversized shadows on their lives. |
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| These include the prohibition of destruction, damage or defilement of any place of worship with the intention of insulting the religion of any class of persons. |
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| Moreover, the Act creates an offence in relation to the defilement of a minor if a householder permits a person less than 16 years of age to have sexual intercourse in his or her house. |
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| Iran's defilement was removed by the swelling tide of Shīʿism, which bore Ismāʿīl to the throne his family was to occupy without interruption until 1722, in one of the greatest epochs of Iranian history. |
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| It makes it an offence to have the girl made available for defilement, seduction or prostitution in the hope of sharing in any proceeds therefrom. |
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| But in the early cases, the defilement of natural resources and the neglect of future generations was inherent in the Communist view of human progress. |
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| Let's return now to the teaching on defilement. |
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| It is related to our understanding on defilement. |
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| It is the privilege of the celestial luminaries to receive no tincture, sullage, or defilement from the most noisome sinks and dunghills here below. |
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