Sentences with phrase «sacred cows so»

All that's being» willfully destructed» here are the sacred cows so many of the «institutionalized» believe in... A wise woman once said: «The truth will set you free... but first, it will piss you off...» And do I think MLK, Jr. was a saint / bodhisattva?

Not exact matches

The real reason pork was outlawed is similar to the reason cows are sacred in Hinduism (and yet calves are often killed so they don't nurse): raising pigs, which require massive amounts of water so they don't overheat and die requires excessive amounts of capital and water resources, of which the region has been sorely lacking for a long long time.

Meditation entailed a memorization of notable content so that the monk could ruminate over the sacred text throughout the day and slowly absorb its nutrients, like a cow chewing its cud.

I think to dismiss the possibility that further public expenditure savings can be made would be unjustifiable, although making further savings in the next parliament may most easily be achieved by targeting the Tory sacred cows that have so far been protected at the cost of greater cuts elsewhere.

That independence has allowed him to take on so many of New York's sacred cows: the MTA, unions, the entrenched Democratic machine and the state legislature.

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.

Structure is also important, with specialist committees formed to make decisions on specific focus areas — human resources, finances and so on — so that you have people with specialist knowledge making decisions in these crucial areas If trustees are too closely connected to their school, there can be a tendency towards emotional attachment to «sacred cows» sometimes hindering progress.

That is a monumental goal for a company with so many money - losing sacred cows, including having to employ more German workers than it needs because the state of Lower Saxony owns 20.01 percent of VW Group.

So here we go with chapter one, sacred cow number one.

Fortunately, Charlie Stross has already eviscerated that particular sacred cow of the publishing industry (see here and here), so I'll focus on what's actually causing my problem: publishing rights.

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.

I wasn't an ardent fan of the XCOM series prior to this, so I wasn't of the impression that 2K Marin was slaughtering a sacred cow, which seems to be the true bone of contention with many fans — That they had the audacity to try something different.

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...