Their defacing of public property is illegal, but they justify it as answering to a higher call.

He had found out not one thing about the defacing of the Honor Roll.

The book ends with the moments leading up to the defacing of Mao's portrait.

The defacing of the monument with silver spray paint was discovered during another check at about 6:15, he said.

The sentry is then reprimanded by his commander for the defacing of the wall.

There was no remorseful reaction by Begda as he allowed the well to remain without any defacing.

The artist could also be awarded money in the event that the alteration or defacing of the work damaged his reputation.

Settlers said they were very upset by the defacing of a synagogue in the Efrat settlement this weekend.

What it really is, of course, is an unlawful defacing of municipal property.

She was a woman on whom a wrinkle, either of flesh or fabric, would have seemed like the defacing of a monument.

Henry was responsible for the dissolution of the monasteries but not for the defacing of images.

Unfortunately there has also been major defacing of this site; in the 1920s the large pictogram was irreparably damaged from a shotgun blast.

The bluff was used as a limestone quarry for about 40 years until citizens protested the defacing of the bluff.

"I simply cannot overlook the defacing of an entire set of Irvine jackets," Dalgleish said.

Flag Defacing: Vote on a bill to impose criminal penalties for physical desecration of the flag.

Mr. Fanton responded to the defacing of the print by mailing a six-page letter to all students and faculty.

The defacing of posters may be a natural intuitive desire to turn the perfect images thereon displayed into the imbalanced, imperfect, real life state.

When a soldier interfered to stop the defacing of other likenesses of General Aoun, shooting broke out.

"The very moment you mentioned the defacing of that priceless historical relic, I thought of Zanzibar.

This led to the use of the term vandalism, to describe any senseless destruction, particularly the barbarian defacing of artworks.

The heads of the Transit Authority need to respond as forcefully as they did to the defacing of cars with graffiti.

Certainly there is evidence of enormous and organised defacing of Jayavarman VII's works.

The school's outlaw image, however, was sharpened in November when a dozen students burned a flag to protest legislation prohibiting defacing of the flag.

The acts included the defacing of a synagogue and Jewish community center and the chasing of blacks and Hispanics from a city park.

The fetish sometimes manifests itself in the defacing of statues or pictures of attractive people, especially celebrities or fictive characters.

"We give them a chance to do something positive, when before it was defacing a building."

No word or act of his should deface that balance.

Two other friends face up to six years in prison for defacing a sign at the school.

We are not free to deface and destroy the natural world.

We defaced a large rock, probably for the remainder of its life.

Ah, but that image has been defaced by the fall!

Rock art has been discovered - and defaced - the world over.

He might as well have attempted to deface the moon.

"For them to come in and deface the community was outrageous," he said.

Maybe she was there to make sure I didn't deface anything.

I must protect my work from influences which would deface it.

"There's a way to profit from the work without defacing public property."

And that was good, God forbid he should say any word to deface it.

Time for a new one, rather than write over and deface the filled pages.

The work of Man and his pomp, let them be defaced.

If you deface a canvas, something has indeed been destroyed.

On the eve of its dedication in 1988, the head was defaced.

Five homes in all were defaced, three of them while their residents slept inside.

She applauded my good taste and asked me if I defaced her house in 1963.

I've never wanted to deface posters so badly in my life, and maybe I will.

"I was like, how dare you deface my work of art?"

On the one hand, they quite properly object to people defacing their property.

"I have aluminum sculptures all over the country and nothing has ever even been defaced," she said.

On 7 October 2012 the painting was defaced with writing in black paint.

In early 2008, he was arrested for defacing a road with two of his election agents.