How To Use Vandal In A Sentence

Why do mindless vandals frequently ruin our beautiful parks and public buildings?
A City priest vowed yesterday that he is no longer willing to turn the other cheek and tolerate the repeated acts of wanton vandalism to the windows of the presbytery which is also his home.
Every few months they serve notices on the owners that they should make the building weatherproof and vandal proof.
It is an act of vandalism for which the party deserves censure. Times, Sunday Times
We have to stop vandalization on farms.

Such a gesture might look to contemporary historians like an act of archival vandalism, but it was entirely characteristic of the old school to which Macmillan belonged.
Gang tags and general graffiti had been scrawled everywhere a vandal with a spray can could reach.
If your neighbour was infringing on your right to run your business or was vandalizing your property would you say nothing?
Neighborhood vandals and our own children bashed our windows in with rocks.
In an act of vandalism, the navy had blown this off in 1971 to instal a beacon, which probably never worked. 'Hello Mum, I'm on Rockall': The £100bn piece of rock
The contrast between the anarchical images of vandalism in Seattle and Genoa and the dignified demeanor of civil rights demonstrators forty years before is striking.
After the fourth attack on her car she was convinced that the vandalism was more than just coincidence.
Campanella begins by looking back to when planning was a profession known for visionaries such as Frederick Law Olmsted, Daniel Burnham, and John Nolan, and then describes how in the postwar years planners "aided and abetted some of the most egregious acts of urban vandalism in American history," i.e., urban renewal. Frank Gruber: Planning and Building for the Future, Dead: Round Up the Usual Suspects
They are not going to vandalise the woods. Times, Sunday Times
They would have been remembered not as forward-thinking reformers - but as mindless cultural vandals.
They have vandalised property, strewn litter and intimidated staff and residents.
The basin pipes were tampered with and the vandals squirted cleaning fluid all over the brand new carpets.
Mindless and dangerous vandalism at a social housing property has been condemned by police.
New mobile wardens will be laying on night-time patrols to deter vandals and thieves who prey on visitors.
The fitments have been vandalised and the flaking concrete of the buildings is smothered in graffiti.
Foul-mouthed mobs roved around the dark Edinburgh streets, looting and vandalising premises owned by Italians.
Its purpose, they claimed, was to preserve the area from vandalism and commercial enterprise!
Is this an act of reckless cultural vandalism? Times, Sunday Times
Rather, it typically involves acts of aggression towards players and officials, or over-exuberant celebratory activity including the vandalism of property.
Pensioner Anthony Tanner was left highly distressed after a vandal tried to set his house on fire with a burning newspaper.
If the businessman had stuck the scrote who wrecked his Christmas lights in a cage, perhaps the police would have prosecuted the vandal and not the victim.
In some cases, grocers have refused to sell food and petrol to anti-drug officials and vandals have slashed the tyres of their government vehicles.
Council chiefs have slammed vandals who deliberately damaged a historic priory.
And a helluva place to leave it - right out in the open for anyone to nick, or vandalize. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
Airbnb offers hosts damage cover of up to 600,000 for theft or vandalism. Times, Sunday Times
The level of mindless vandalism around the centre is an indicator that we need to do a lot of work there.
Select a release site that is an easily accessible, sunny location, not highly visible to vandals and others who may disturb the release area.
As the tradition goes, while the commissioners were debating what they should call the town they were making, a wag suggested that it be named Vandalia, in honor of the Vandals, a tribe of Indians which, said he, had once lived on the borders of the Kaskaskia; this, he argued, would conserve a local tradition while giving a euphonous title. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896
It is an act of vandalism for which the party deserves censure. Times, Sunday Times
a stranger suld lack what we have, though we are jimply provided for in beds rather; for Jenny has sae mony bairns (God bless them and her) that troth I maun speak to Lord Evandale to gie us a bit eik, or outshot Old Mortality
Hundreds of shops in some of the most deprived parts of the region are to benefit from increased security under a scheme to cut crime and vandalism.
This was taken as a mindless act of vandalism. The Sun
When the couple got up the next morning they found the scooter flung on their lawn, its ignition ripped out, its battery damaged, and the seat vandalised.
CAMARILLO -- A Jewish preschool in Camarillo has been vandalized with swastikas and anti-Semitic phrases for the second time in a week and the fourth time in a year. Larisa Alexandrovna: The Evil of It All...
Doors and windows at the Barfield Road building have been damaged by vandals and intruders in recent weeks.
He supported the new scheme and hoped it would reduce vandalism in the area.
Shattered glass on the bus seats greeted the first driver to arrive for work, who discovered that vandals had broken in through a hole in the fence.
One resident, who wished to remain unnamed, said the lifts had been damaged, the careline tampered with, doorbells vandalised and windows broken.
The Middleton Guardian was told that up to 60 vandals regularly invade the grounds and spend the whole night drinking and carousing, leaving a trail of dangerous debris in their wake.
Visit the neighborhoods where half the houses are empty, vandalized and then leveled by the city because they are no longer of reclaimable. Rising Value of a Vote in a Struggling Economy - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
The vandals mainly broke off wing mirrors and damaged windscreens in the vehicles.
To such vandals we can only emphasise the remarks we have already made about the market value of a "priest-hole" nowadays. Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Traditions About Hiding-Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc.
The Vandals occupied North Africa, successfully assimilating late Roman art.
In addition to the vandalism, some stolen property was recovered from one of the three men.
The towers quickly became breeding grounds for crime, vandalism and antisocial behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
Vandals are unwittingly causing untold damage to wildlife habitat in Savernake Forest, says a forester.
Police say they are part of vandal group known as "CCK," or "crazy, cracka, killas. WPXI.com - Local News
Almost every night drunken youngsters are shouting abuse at their neighbours and vandalising property.
He claimed that he was "cajoled" into committing the offences of breaking into the SMRT Changi Deport and vandalising two train carriages. TODAYonline
Have you ever seriously vandalized someone's property?
XXXIII But Gaiseric, king of the Vandals, had already 167 been invited into Africa by Boniface, who had fallen into a dispute with the Emperor Valentinian and was able to obtain revenge only by injuring the empire. The Origin and Deeds of the Goths
I found my mother's grave had been knocked over and saw others had been vandalised too.
Police are planning to make parents sit down and watch videos of their own children misbehaving in a bid to curb vandalism, under-age drinking, violence and abusive behaviour.
Visigothic and Vandal productions were for a certain time extolled, panegyrized, and admired in the journals, especially as they came out under the protection of a certain lady of distinction, who knew nothing at all about the subject. A Philosophical Dictionary
People from the surrounding residential area have constantly complained of noise and vandalism caused by youngsters leaving the club.
A number of tools were stolen from sheds and the vandals uprooted vegetables and plants, throwing them around.
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Betsy Devine is giving a talk about “vandal waves” on Wikipedia pages, using the swiftboating page as an example. Scripting News for 8/6/2006 « Scripting News Annex
The only other markings besides gang tags and general vandalism were some more recent satanic markings, pentagrams, and inverted crosses.
He said all the trees on the land were damaged by vandals four months ago and only replaced this week.
Cased inside a steel-plated hull they are vandal-proof and too heavy to steal - without a crane. Times, Sunday Times
Such cuts are also an expression of cultural vandalism and philistine indifference.
We'd vandalise, bully people, shoplift and fight. The Sun
So irrepressible in youth is the thrust to become," one specialist has warned, "that it will surface somehow, if not in constructive self-expression, then in wilful vandalism or defiant apathy or even suicide as an ultimate, tragic expression of self-determination. Our Responsibility to Youth
We need to consider the problem of vandalism within a wider context.
Speed camera bosses are undeterred by vandals who defaced signs warning drivers that mobile speed cameras operate in the area.
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Vandals have attempted arson and have stoned theaters that are showing the film.
The forester implored anyone seeing vandals damaging the tree to report it immediately to the police.
Using an air rifle or a high-powered catapult, the vandals smashed ten of the ground's floodlights causing over €1,000 worth of damage.
I would think that people would be all over this as a violation of property or vandalism or sign of the degeneracy of Europeans, but instead, we're going to argue about the "audaciousness" of a white canvas, without even knowing what is on the other two canvases that form the rest of the painting. "When I kissed it, I thought the artist would have understood."
Due to infrequent maintenance in recent decades, many of the city's grand structures are in terminal decay, undone by the vandalism of official apathy.
This kind of thievery, vandalism, individual violence and destruction expresses, not the stress of combat, but an intense hatred directed against an entire people or race.
After years of asking the locals not to congregate in front of his business, he confronted a group he believed vandalized some of his property.
Such exasperation may have led to posters being stolen and vandalised but there could be another reason.
The Orchid House offers the visitors a captivating display of exotic blooms of cattleya, dendrobium, arachnis, oncidium, phalaenopsis, vandal and their hybrids.
The act of vandalism, which caused damaged estimated at £30, occurred in the early hours of Christmas Eve.
In October vandals caused 10,000 damage. The Sun
Police arrested 19 people for vandalism, accusing anarchists of plotting to cause renewed violence during the final. Times, Sunday Times
The school currently has CCTV cameras mounted on its roof but in the past vandals have been able to climb onto the building and damage the cameras during a spree - rendering them ineffective.
Then to top it all, my son who works hard, stays off the street corners and is a responsible adult, paid for a car, taxed and insured it and then mindless vandals covered his beloved car with eggs and flour and let the tyres down.
His catalogue of crimes is appalling: assaults on other children, dog mess through letterboxes, vandalism.
As well as vandalism, it will target drunken louts and unruly gangs who make neighbourhoods no-go areas.
It has since been targeted by vandals and has been set on fire on numerous occasions.
Talk to people who live on the Brunshaw estate and the same themes come up time and time again: crime, juvenile nuisance, drug dealing, vandalism and anti-social behaviour.
Even in the advertising industry, it seems that you have to show small-minded, petty acts of vandalism to get noticed.
This can easily rear its head here in drug gangs and petty crime like vandalism without any encouragement.
This is a terrible act of cultural vandalism and totally unnecessary. Times, Sunday Times
Policing of the surroundings of lakes and tanks may become necessary to stop vandals and litterbugs spoiling our water bodies.
Windows had been broken, houses pelted by eggs and apples, cars damaged and property vandalised.
Car vandals caused more than 10 000 worth of damage to vehicles last Saturday.
The warning is part of a major drive to rid the estate of its image as a centre of vandalism and antisocial behaviour, and to improve residents' quality of life.
It makes us so angry that the cemetery is becoming a target of theft and vandalism.
We are fighting back against the litter louts, the illegal fly-tippers and fly-posters and the vandals who deface the city with graffiti.
Disregard the niceties of the terms vandalism and anti-social behaviour.
It has also attracted the interest of vandals - earlier this week they blocked one of the bench's modem sockets when the parky's back was turned.
It was an act of wanton social vandalism that has condemned generations to lives of unfulfilled potential. The Sun
Vandals with an air rifle may have been responsible for bringing a major section of the Metrolink tram system to a standstill.
Plus, he really is an excellent financial advisor.4 I must also thank Jay Fienberg, my cousin/Web site codesigner and, most importantly, my vandalism consultant. Curse of the Spellmans
A woman today told of her horror after every room in her house was spray-painted by vandals.
The problem with the trees however lies with the fact that as young saplings they are very weak and susceptible to damage by vandals or simply by traffic or passers-by.
We must send out a message that to vandalise public facilities is neither big nor clever.
In July its war memorial was defaced by vandals. Times, Sunday Times
Shoppers yesterday spoke of their shock at the wanton act of vandalism as they walked past the flattened £1, 500 tree with its brightly coloured baubles strewn across the paving.
I know people link our sort of vandalism to boredom and jealousy but what we're really trying to do is get a reaction.
It is to establish clear blue water between their principles and ours; and it is to develop and proselytize a coherent and creditable liberal alternative to the economic vandalism now to be canvassed at us by Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and their ilk. David Coates: Sanity in a Time of Madness
He was sickened when, just months later, vandals desecrated the memorial, built to commemorate villagers who fought in the First World War.
I'd strongly advocate bringing back the birch and use it to punish vandals.
In July its war memorial was defaced by vandals. Times, Sunday Times
Not to sabotage our democracy and vandalise the fragile process of government by consent. The Sun
October, in the middle of the crisis, the Cuban Government declared that our country would not accept the vandalic and piratical right any war plane to violate our air space, because essentially it effected our safety, and would facilitate the conditions for a surprise attack. COMMUNICATION TO U THANT
Vandals have destroyed entire colonies in minutes, and urban expansion has eliminated thousands of natural roosts in caves and forests.
Three police cars were wrecked and cops reported offences of vandalism, graffiti and looting. The Sun
It is vandalism of the worst sort on a huge scale. The Sun
Plans are under way to revamp a children's play area which was vandalised by drunken youths over Christmas.
The walls had been horribly vandalized with spray paint.
He says the vandalism is so commonplace costs for groups to use the community hall are set to help cover the cost of repairs.
It is wanton and pointless vandalism which has caused a lot of disruption to the school, but also those who carry out such attacks are putting their own safety at risk.
Two vandalism cases, one "demoralising" case, "dissatisfaction" case, trespassing, three assaults, two debt cases with two arrests made and a robbery case in Jangsak were also recorded. Brudirect News1
A disabled car owner has been left with no transport and a hefty bill after vandals sprayed his car with a corrosive substance.
Residents only knew of plans for this when we asked workmen who were dismantling the old and vandalised pieces of play equipment.
The building had been boarded up on several occasions and was a prime target for vandals.
The criminal and vandalic acts of the imperialists in Vietnam will not make the people cease in their struggle, but the struggle will increase. HAVANA UNIVERSITY GRADUATION
Oh, one more thing, please ignore the snide remark some scabrous graffito vandal appended to the end of the article.
On Tuesday, neds vandalised Arteta's £85,000 Porsche at a tenpin bowling alley in Glasgow.
He said he installed the new windows after previous vandalism. The Sun
Thus he was soon joined by others who also petitioned to preserve the ruins before they were destroyed by pothunters and vandals.
However the day was almost marred by pointless and useless vandalism to one of the train carriage windows.
It is true that I despise purposeless killing, and regard it as an act of vandalism deserving the severest condemnation.
Both the chapel and the crypt were found in a state of devastation hardly credible, as though the plunderers had taken pleasure in satisfying their vandalic instincts to the utmost. Pagan and Christian Rome
Some vandals had thrown something onto the electric doofer on the top of the train.
Vandalism has increased and trees have been broken shortly after being planted.
The fire was caused by vandals who pushed a lit taper through the letterbox.
The real eyesore was the derelict building we took over, which was covered in vandalism.
A mother has hit out at vandals who damaged a memorial to her teenage daughter.
The damage to the painting is the work of vandals.
In 1996 he revealed his laid-back attitude to his work after vandals smashed up a life-size model of a plane.
With such vandals for subjects, it was fitting that they chose the Adam's Pass rubbish dump as their study site.
The seat - covers on the train had been ripped by vandals.
After the night of drunken crime and pie-eyed vandalism that ravaged the country on St Patrick's day, plans are afoot to move the date of the festival for next year's celebration.
Many motorists have now been forced to park out of view, risking theft and vandalism.
Incidents of vandalism, rowdiness and violence on trains and railway platforms have been well documented in the pages of the Keighley News.
We need support to win this battle and mindless acts of vandalism and violence are not going to win us any friends. Times, Sunday Times
He said: "Obviously, the repeated vandalism of the statue is of great concern and hopefully the mindless hooligans responsible will be caught."
The mindless vandals then caused extensive damage to the playing surface.
A cash-strapped Sea Cadet unit has had its donated minibus torched by vandals, months after all the unit's windows were smashed.
The approach taken by some schools to introduce pupils as monitors had proved effective at tackling vandalism on buses.
This information will be treated as confidential and might help stamp out vandalism around the church.
Relatives visiting loved ones' graves thought vandals had struck when they arrived to see scores of gravestones knocked to the ground.
On young trees ‘temporary ‘branches may be retained along the stem to encourage taper and protect trees from vandalism and sun scald.’
Conservationists claim the idea is cultural vandalism that will rip the heart out of the town.
In recent weeks the graffiti vandals have defaced the memorial.
The van was seemingly abandoned by police – no officers were inside as protesters started to vandalise it, and police looked on helplessly from around 50 metres away as activists climbed onto the roof, smashed windows, spraypainted its sides and, at one point, threw a smoke bomb inside. Second day of student protests - how the demonstrations happened
It was a country of bankruptcy notices and public-auction announcements and common-place reports of casual killings and misplaced children and abandoned homes and vandals who misspelled even the four-letter words they scrawled.
After expelling the reporters, the goons vandalized the newspaper's equipment.
The forester implored anyone seeing vandals damaging the tree to report it immediately to the police.
They have absolutely no regard for the dirt that it is dragged through, the grime and graffiti of vandals in the form of distribution agents and projectionists, and the artless cuts they could make.
I couldn't come up with anything that wouldn't get my car keyed or otherwise vandalized in the middle of the night.
Aside from the destruction of the spirit of numinous ancient places there is also the simple fact of artistic vandalism.
They vandalise the built heritage and make neighbours' lives a misery. Times, Sunday Times
It is vandalism of the worst sort on a huge scale. The Sun
We are fighting back against the litter louts, the illegal fly-tippers and fly-posters and the vandals who deface the city with graffiti.
In the three weeks before she fulfilled her pledge the building stood unguarded - and untouched by a single vandal.
But the outlook from the end of the street is a row of ugly, derelict homes which provide shelter for drug addicts and vandals, named by residents after the notorious New York district.
Worse, the Vandals had entered into North Africa, cutting Rome off from its supply of grain.
Each time engineers were sent out to repair the damage, the vandals wrecked them again. The Sun
The vandals broke into the car, damaged the ignition and stole her walking stick.
Vandal-resistant, Pin-in-Head Torx Screws attach hinges, door stops, door latch keepers and mounting hardware.
We sheltered under the shade of the massive overwhelming oak trees whose bark was protected from vandalism by vicious spikes forced into the trunk.
I don't believe our youths would stoop so low as to desecrate the graves or vandalise the cemetery.
The phone box was vandalized by a gang of youths.
The majority of vandals struck at dusk or after dark, with street lighting proving no deterrent. Times, Sunday Times
Residents have appealed for police patrols to be stepped up to rid an estate of yobs and vandals.
Roman rule of Mauretania extended into the early fifth century, when the Vandal king Gaiseric descended on the area; by 461 Rome had given up claim to the provinces. Roman Trade With the Canary Islands
It's a sad reflection that these acts of wilful and wanton vandalism appear to be increasing. Times, Sunday Times
Property is still being damaged and cars are still being vandalised on a regular basis.
A court has gagged the Wandsworth Guardian to prevent it naming two boys accused of terrorising and vandalising their neighbourhood.
The Ringmaster System will enable schools to rapidly receive information from police or Neighbourhood Watch on everything from vandalism to prowlers.
The vandal cut a four-inch-deep gash all the way around the trunk - 27 feet in circumference.
While we accept that feelings are running high on the issue of military landings at Shannon Airport, this kind of wanton vandalism does nothing to heighten our credibility and will probably do more damage than good.
This has upset local residents, who are sick of their environment being vandalised and believe this packaging design glorifies the neds who are causing the trouble.
We don't get the stereotypical skinheads we got in the late 70s and early 80s but we do seem to get loads of yobs who think it highly amusing to vandalise, scrawl graffiti in the children's play area and walls around the rec and take drugs.
Students taking exams had a last-minute change of venue after vandals struck a school building.
The fire incident was as a result of pipeline vandalization.
The three-day summit left the ancient port of Genoa littered with burnt-out cars, smashed windows and vandalised property.
Mindless vandals have desecrated the grave of a stillborn baby for the fourth time in less than five months.
There was a cross-link between the Glass Teddy Bear gift shop vandalisms and the Dodo case, in that Hank Murray, manager of the Busquash Mall, lived in Carew and, when he had the time, served as a Gentleman Walker. Naked Cruelty
Vandals also dug two feet down into the grave of John Devlin, who died eight years ago.
Many police forces have introduced units to tackle vandalism, fire-raising and violence between security firms.
A City priest vowed yesterday that he is no longer willing to turn the other cheek and tolerate the repeated acts of wanton vandalism to the windows of the presbytery which is also his home.
New mobile wardens will be laying on night-time patrols to deter vandals and thieves who prey on visitors.
What's unseen is what the shopkeeper would have done with the money had the vandal not broken his window. Hurricanes and Broken Windows, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
He said this led to spiralling levels of thuggishness, vandalism and violent crime when revellers spilled on to the streets at closing time, especially on Friday and Saturday nights.
They carefully placed their tokens of love - toys, trinkets and flowers - back at the graveside and prayed the vandals would stay away.
Romans, Vandals, Visigoths, and Byzantine Greeks successively ruled the area.

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