Defacement

The *victim* of the defacement is the person who is intended to be fearful. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He has been arrested numerous times for his artistic self-expression by his government who does not agree with his reasoning that because they are forcibly removing these citizens from their dwellings in order to demolish the buildings and build commercially on the land, that spray painting his profile on building facades is only temporary "defacement" and that, really, it is art. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So what happens when we begin to allow people to truly deface the so-called "defacement"? ❋ Unknown (2009)

"defacement" of music, just like graffiti was considered nothing more than "defacement" of property. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Muslim-Americans in Louisiana's Shreveport-Bossier City metropolitan area reported the defacement of a local mosque by a man in a blue pickup truck, the most recent incident in a string of possible hate crimes following the killing of Osama bin Laden. ❋ The Huffington Post News Editors (2011)

To their credit, like Israeli officials, mainstream American Jewish leaders condemned the price tag vigilantes after the widely publicized defacement of a mosque in Israel proper last week. ❋ Dan Fleshler (2011)

The apparent respectability and posed sobriety of the portraits is infiltrated with a baroque elaboration of finely sewn colours whose delicacy is contradicted by an implication of ritualised defacement. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The protests were relatively small and mostly peaceful, although the largest, in the prosperous southwestern city of Chengdu on Saturday, drew thousands of people and included defacement of shops that advertised Japanese brands. ❋ James T. Areddy (2010)

Asked if he was concerned about being accused of sacrilege in his defacement of Buddhas, Wouters said there was no danger of that, since the materiality of the work, which is simply a piece of paper, has nothing to do with the spirit of the Buddha. ❋ Menachem Wecker (2010)

Some have compared Duffy's crime to the defacement of a real memorial; actually, he was scribbling on the kind of edifice that is all too often, thanks to Facebook's raison d'etre, inherently degraded. ❋ Unknown (2011)

TEL AVIV—The burning and defacement of a mosque in northern Israel early Monday sparked a riot and heightened Israeli concerns that Jewish extremists could stoke Palestinian outrage and ignite a new uprising. ❋ Joshua Mitnick (2011)

A thousand Copts had turned out mainly to protest the defacement and burning of a Christian church in Aswan province. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In less than an hour, I had defaced the defacement. ❋ Nancy Ruhling (2011)

Operation Baylout, as the attack is called, also involved the reported defacement of the Swedish website of the IFPI. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Take this defacement as a simple warning: go away. ❋ Unknown (2011)