Sentences with phrase «as sacred cow»

«The National Institutes of Health has been treated as a sacred cow,» Lafferty says.

«Apart from bringing corrupt public officers to justice, we are determined, in line with the stance of the current administration, to send an unmistakable message to everyone, that no Nigerian shall be regarded as being above the law or treated as a sacred cow as far as the fight against corruption is concerned.

«Our members view the benefit fund as a sacred cow and they don't want to risk anything negative happening to it.»

Confidentiality should not be regarded as a sacred cow.

We tend to associate it with superstition or with such things as the sacred cow or a sacred volcano.

Victor Paul Furnish in The Moral Teaching of Paul (1979) contrasted those who treated scripture as a sacred cow and those who considered it a white elephant.

«This Senate will not confirm any anti-graft boss who is not ready to treat senators as sacred cows even if they are corrupt.

He said it was barbaric and provocative for the government to treat perpetrators of the killings as sacred cows, as no group has the monopoly of violence.

Not exact matches

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis looks at dividends as the «sacred cow» for energy investments and which companies have been cutting them.

The cow — which is regarded as sacred and wanders freely in most parts of India — is a symbol of this.

As a Jew, he has dared to take on the sacred cow of militaristic Zionism, and has even forcefully criticized such a revered figure as Auschwitz survivor and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel, charging that Wiesel turns a blind eye to the suffering that Israel, «the homeland for persecuted European Jews and Holocaust survivors,» has inflicted upon the PalestinianAs a Jew, he has dared to take on the sacred cow of militaristic Zionism, and has even forcefully criticized such a revered figure as Auschwitz survivor and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel, charging that Wiesel turns a blind eye to the suffering that Israel, «the homeland for persecuted European Jews and Holocaust survivors,» has inflicted upon the Palestinianas Auschwitz survivor and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel, charging that Wiesel turns a blind eye to the suffering that Israel, «the homeland for persecuted European Jews and Holocaust survivors,» has inflicted upon the Palestinians.

I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.

There are no sacred cows though, as evidenced by the decision to shut the Ryecroft winery in McLaren Vale and shift production to the bigger Wolf Blass site.

I was once as you are, and I know that its hard to be calm when its your sacred cow being slaughtered.

Though a satirist always risks blowback, both from those who don't get the joke and from some who do, when it comes to social criticism, I tend to follow what we might call the Joe Bob Briggs Doctrine: think of the social critic as a machine gun spraying fire across the cultural landscape, and «when a target screams, you've found the sacred cow.

«Therefore, I believe, as long as the NHS is the «sacred cow» of British politics, the longer the British people will suffer with a second rate health service.»

«We insist that for the perception not to become stronger that the anti-graft war develops strong teeth against the vulnerable and become toothless against the sacred cows, the EFCC must invite Lawal as it goes after Oke,» Afenifere stressed.

Eliot Spitzer never really got a chance as governor but as attorney general showed that he wasn't afraid to tax sacred cows and he wasn't afraid to tell it like it is, which is what you really need from a comptroller,» Paterson told WCBS 880.

She added that the war against corruption «is by this singular sting operation revived as there is no sacred cow when Justices of the Supreme Court are among the culprits.

«There will be no sacred cows as the corporation is working round the clock by supplying sufficient petroleum products to marketers to ensure that Nigerians enjoyed a yuletide season without pain.

It's a first salvo in what's expected to be a protracted budget battle as Gov. Andrew Cuomo gears up to fulfill his pledge to make deep spending cuts — most likely by goring the ox of some heretofore sacred cows, including the public employee unions and education aid.

For some in our political class foreign policy is a sacred cow, but a Home Office working group entitled Tackling Extremism formed after 7/7 clearly suggested that British foreign policy — especially in the Middle East — can not be left unconsidered as a factor in the motivations of criminal radical extremists.

«It is funny that Fayemi is not even ashamed to sermonise on the need to say no to impunity and eliminate the syndrome of sacred cows, when he, himself acted like a sacred cow by refusing to appear before a commission of inquiry, duly constituted to probe his four years as governor of Ekiti State.

By insisting that the Senate abides by the constitutions and provisions in the Police act and regulations, the IGP is not holding on to any straw as asserted by the Senate Spokesperson but to the rule of law to ensure that there is no sacred cow.

As a former New York City Police Officer, I regret that law enforcement layoffs are necessary to balance this budget, but there are no sacred cows.

Some require us to reconsider such sacred cows as the secret ballot; they may prove vulnerable to manipulation and mob rule.

Deep yellow / orange butter from cows eating rapidly growing spring grass was considered a sacred food by the Traditional Swiss culture, a culture with young men so perfect and pleasing in physique, strength, and character that the Vatican favored these young men over all others to serve as the Papal Guard at the Vatican.

Chan teaches Wilson a Chinese drinking game, and Wilson teaches «the Shanghai Kid» how to sling a gun, as the film plays fast and loose with stereotypes and sacred cows.

At the same time, Willard is a little desperate to establish itself as respectful of the cheese of»70s ecological horror, indulging in a little cat and boss cruelty but showing its true colours in a quailing cop - out involving the sacred cow of a pet dog.

And again, even Duncan admitted as much when he later said that «class size has been a sacred cow and we need to take it on.»

As long ago as the 1970s, James Block was referring to this notion of «individual differences» as one of the «sacred cows» in education, immune from criticism and oppositioAs long ago as the 1970s, James Block was referring to this notion of «individual differences» as one of the «sacred cows» in education, immune from criticism and oppositioas the 1970s, James Block was referring to this notion of «individual differences» as one of the «sacred cows» in education, immune from criticism and oppositioas one of the «sacred cows» in education, immune from criticism and opposition.

Not for her the passing satisfaction of fawning headlines as alleged sacred cows are slaughtered.

(Unless, as I found out later, you stepped on one of their sacred cows.

I agree with you about beta readers, but I feel like the negativity toward writing workshops and editors is as much of a sacred cow as the idea of writers» art existing pure and golden untouched upon the page.

As we change, people come, people go, people applaud, people fade away, people love it, sacred cows are slaughtered, and that's part of the journey.

In this episode I talk about killing my sacred cow of not trading time for money as I'm going to start offer a limited amount of consulting calls.

In this book many sacred investment cows are slaughtered, Covel goes so far as to say that buy and hold investing is a winning strategy for mutual fund managers through fees, but not for investors, with the 2000 and 2008 bear markets wiping out gains that could have been locked in with trend trading strategies.

This week Bally approaches a sacred cow as he...

David advocates the killing of these sacred zombie cows as the best way to grow.

Presaging Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley and exerting noticeable influence on artists such as Barry McGee and Ed Templeton, Saul's oeuvre is long overdue for deeper examination and this comprehensive publication provides the first complete overview of his work over the past five decades — from his epic historical canvases to his homage to Thomas Hart Benton, his lampoons of art world sacred cows and works evidencing his particular take on the existential dilemmas of the aging American male.

In 2010, as part of a 3 - year project based around gender imbalance in India, drawing parallels between the cow — sacred animal and symbol of fertility — and her observance of the undervalued condition of India's women, Nourry created life - like figurative sculptures, the Holy Daughters, that were part sacred cow, part girl, in resin, placing them in the streets of New Delhi before stepping back to film the reactions of local men.

Though I disagree with the first commenter that environmentalists as somehow by nature obstructionists, advocates on all extremes of this debate will have to be ready to sacrifice their sacred cows.

This sacred cow turns out to be as fanciful as planetary warming hidden in the deepest ocean, or the infamous hockey stick of Michael Mann's hidden data and secret computer codes.

Nothing screams as loudly or attacks with as much fury as a gored sacred cow.

Since leaving Tyndall — and as we found out in a telephone interview — he has come out of the climate change closet as an outspoken critic of such sacred cows as the UN's IPCC, the «consensus», the over-emphasis on scientific evidence in political debates about climate change, and to defend the rights of so - called «deniers» to contribute to those debates...

-LSB-...] «If we treat peer review as a sacred academic cow, we will continue to let the public down again and again.»

As it turned out, the sacred cows could also be called the usual suspects.

This is where negotiating limitations of liability (an certain other «sacred cow» provisions) can become tricky, as they are often the last agreement made before signing, and must be flowed through to the subcontractors.