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"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.