One director, whose shares were bought by Mr Glazer in January, found his car daubed with red paint.

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Instead, yellow flowers daubed with black lacquer to resemble black-eyed Susans are substituted.

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The nest was daubed with white paint in an attempt to imitate bird droppings, so the birds would think it was an established nesting site.

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Six homes had their windows smashed and were daubed with paint.

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There are two national monuments to the RAF in Britain and a statue to Harris that was daubed with red paint within 24 hours of its unveiling in 1992.

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Written during the 1984-85 UK miners' strike after the author discovered his parents' gravestones had been daubed with obscene graffiti, the poem tackles subjects such as racial and religious conflict.

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At other times though we were being watched from a car that had been daubed with paint, rudimentary camouflage, like many vehicles going to the front lines were during the recent fighting.

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The founders of the Pirate Bay, the website, seemed to relish the court process, turning up to court in a bus daubed with slogans, playing the part of outsiders battling unjust authority and insisting that they were merely defending a popular technology rather than promoting illegality.

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Further east in Chaoyang district, the rough and ready 2 Kolegas, with its graffiti-daubed walls, is a classic underground club that stages punk gigs and live jam sessions.

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Mr Wright later uploaded a picture to Twitter which showed five or six words on the bottom-right corner of the painting with black streaks of paint running down from the daubed writing.

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