In Karnataka in the south, 20 churches have been desecrated in a few days.

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Grown-ups may shudder at the tackiness, though children will love even the hideously desecrated William Kent rooms.

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Over 2, 000 years ago, a tyrant forbade the Israelites from practicing their religion and his forces desecrated the Holy Temple.

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Ayau says the items were desecrated by David Forbes, an amateur archeologist in Hawaii around the turn of the last century.

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Mr. YANCY: What they've done here is completely desecrated this region.

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The museum has said it hopes the authorities will quickly establish whether the remains of the camp's victims had been stolen and desecrated and added it was sure the artist did not obtain them legally.

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Commonwealth war cemeteries have twice been desecrated.

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Republicans, on the other hand, have desecrated the limited-government legacies of Reagan, Goldwater, and our founders by embarking on spending orgies with borrowed money -- a form of deferred taxation and financial repression -- while hiding beyond false pledges of tax purity that have made tax reduction and simplification much more difficult to achieve.

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