as in corruptions
an act of great disrespect shown to God or to sacred ideas, people, or things
spitting on the temple floor would be a great sacrilege
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These attempts to keep down the unquiet dead were, besides being desecrations, exercises in a lot of heavy and often forbidden labor done on decaying bodies.
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The idea that Watkins was an enabler of Gein’s murders and subsequent desecrations could be read merely as a part of the show’s aggressive and admitted mingling of fiction and reality.
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Three additional restaurants were cited for violations including heavy grease accumulation, missing handwashing signs and an ice machine leak.
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The Justice Manual violations described above represent only one dimension of the illegality of this Fund.
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In recent weeks, Avila Chevalier has been under a microscope for her past tweets, including posts calling for defunding the police and abolishing the border, alongside harsh insults of big-name Democrats such as former Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Michael Lind, the writer and New America co-founder, argues in Commonplace, the magazine of Oren Cass’s American Compass, that a decent wage and a safety net should be enough, and that handing workers a stake in capital insults the dignity of their labor.
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