Sentences with phrase «desecrate sacred»

Today the Supreme Court of Canada released a much awaited decision regarding a challenge to a proposed ski - hill resort on the basis that approving the project will desecrate a sacred place, irreversibly harming the religious beliefs of the Ktunaxa people.

Native American tribes and climate activists have vowed to fight the pipeline, fearing it will desecrate sacred sites and endanger a source of the country's largest drinking water reservoir.

They say building the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on the slopes of Mauna Kea, on Hawaii's Big Island, would desecrate a sacred site.

The $ 3.8 billion pipeline drew international protests after the Standing Rock Sioux tribe told government officials that the pipeline would desecrate sacred burial grounds and voiced concerns about possible oil spills.

Actress Shailene Woodley was arrested in North Dakota on Monday while protesting a planned pipeline that Native Americans say will desecrate sacred land and pollute water, an incident that was captured live on camera.

But the Standing Rock Sioux, whose tribal lands are a half - mile south of the proposed route, have said the pipeline could pollute the tribe's drinking water and desecrate sacred burial and prayer sites.

I ventured the suggestion that its significance lay in the judgment on those who had desecrated the sacred temple vessels.

If you own a suit of armor, have a black belt in martial arts, or just don't care about desecrating a sacred American tradition with pure greed, the barbaric annual event known as Black Friday may be for you.

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When those knights headed for the Holy Land on a campaign that would cost the lives of so many of them, it was because they felt that something on earth, even though only an empty sepulcher in Palestine, was sacred and must not be desecrated.

The new Agba Akin of Osogboland said it behooves on every black - man to see his culture and tradition as sacred that shouldn't be allowed to neither desecrate or fade off by worldly frivolity.

I went there tonight and when I came out there was a cop keeping out angry native Hawaiians who wanted to come in and cause problems due to the fact that it was apparently an ancient sacred burial ground which has since been desecrated.

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe, whose drinking water and sacred sites have been desecrated by this pipeline, already announced plans to sue to stop any action to expedite DAPL.

If the resort proceeded, this sacred site of Qat» muk would be desecrated and cause Grizzly Bear Spirit to leave, severing the Ktunaxa's connection to the land and making their religious beliefs and practices meaningless.