Sentences with phrase «sacred cows even»
«This Senate will not confirm any anti-graft boss who is not ready to treat senators as sacred cows even if they are corrupt.
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A perfect counter-example is Hinduism, which by construction is more spiritual than religious — it's adherents do not have strict rules or norms, and there is incredible diversity of norms within one umbrella (some who believe in caste system, even though a large majority of urbanites study in Christian missionary schools; some who believe cows are sacred though 2/3 of Indians are actually non-vegetarian).
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 Palestinians.
Those forms are still printed for congregations that wish to use them, but the number is a decreasing one, even in parts of the church where a few years ago the traditional forms were virtual «sacred cows.»
«What's peculiar about this country is the sort of shibboleth... the sacred cow aspect of the NHS, even though what the government is trying to achieve is the NHS just becomes a sort of kitemark for all these private companies, who are just sort of feeding, picking off the profitable bits.
«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.
To Nesbitt, all this upheaval has placed an even more sacred cow on the chopping block: the uniqueness of the dinosaur.
In a way, I mean, that's largely what this community of explorers and investigators at ChrisKresser.com is all about, continuing to challenge even our cherished beliefs, like the idea that — not that this was a cherished belief for me, but sacred cows, let's say, like the idea that legumes aren't paleo and shouldn't be eaten because they have toxins in them.
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.»
The only deal California and environmental groups would even consider is one in which they get carve outs for regulatory sacred cows.
But when a new emergence achieves outsized approbation and applause, it can become a sacred cow of sorts, immune to fresh observation, criticism, or even real understanding of its essence and potential relevance.