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I said there's no way I'm going to bastardize my logo.

"They bastardize the Scripture to fit their view of the world."

Because you don't notice that your show is slowly being bastardized.

"There was a fair amount of talk about how Keynes had been bastardized."

She did not care what people thought of her, but was frightened that the record would be bastardized to suit someone else's ends.

And not if we were doing something we thought would bastardize the building."

I got letters accusing me of bastardizing God's work.

"Catering to Americans in the restaurants," he said, "has bastardized the food."

He has bastardized the entire concept of the scheme.

"A lot of other companies are bastardizing this product by selling it as entrepreneurial opportunity.

In fact, this very photograph was famously bastardized and debased by the old Hollywood machine.

He continued, "That was the old-fashioned conservative, but the word conservative today has been bastardized."

You took the idea, and bastardized it.

I further bastardized the dish by using just plain basil, and the dish was still a hit.

"He stole it from me and he bastardized it," she said.

He spoke a city dialect, which had been bastardized with human Ragamoll, but they could still understand each other.

Sweet and sour Mandarin fish with pine nuts, a dish too often bastardized, is reborn.

"From the moment my stores became successful, this company did everything in its power to stall my plans and to bastardize my name."

"The whole concept of what's earnings and what's on the cash-flow statement has become so bastardized that nothing makes much sense any more," he said.

The designation "couture" was being bastardized, with the word frequently used to describe expensive ready-to-wear.

"Opera buffs are likely to find joy, because the tunes aren't bastardized, but electrified."

"It's not like I'm bastardizing my craft.

"Are we going to bastardize it?"

No more letting Apple's IP be copied and bastardized by the competition.

And it's not like the U.S. is the first country to bastardize a foodstuff.

It is facile to expect universities to drop or bastardise their entry requirements for social engineering purposes.

The following year, Radcliffe attempted to bastardise her children with another Parliamentary Bill, but this also failed to pass despite having been read three times in the House of Commons of England.

In 1555, he tried again with yet another Bill, this time to prevent her from enjoying her dowry or jointure rights which did pass; however, he no longer sought to bastardise her children.

Whoever succeeds him should sit down with Camila Batmanghelidjh for a couple of hours, go with her on her "rounds" of vulnerable kids on deprived estates, take off those Eton-forged blindfolds - to bastardise Blake - & see for her/himself.

If I could give just one message to Walsh and those who?ve been deluded by the malicious, dysfunctional world-view of rags such as The Daily Mail it would be, to bastardise a quote from good old George Bailey in It?s a Wonderful Life: