The word
"sacrosanct" means something that is considered extremely holy, sacred, untouchable, or beyond criticism.
Full definition
The boy trip, girl trip, and yurt trip have become staples of our annual travel calendar, considered
as sacrosanct as birthdays — and each involves days spent entirely disconnected in remote backcountry.
It is
not sacrosanct for users to use EQ given by Apple; you can use some EQ apps to adjust audio levels on your HomePod.
At the meeting of the Convention in October, I was able to reassure constituency chairmen that this principle
remains sacrosanct and that the new system can only work by consent and cooperation.
Nick Clegg has joined the other two party leaders in getting tough on immigration today, in a speech which addresses a topic long considered
sacrosanct in Liberal Democrat circles.
In trying to control soaring pension costs, Mr. Bloomberg is taking aim at retirement rules
considered sacrosanct by the city's powerful municipal unions and their political allies.
But the idea that all students with cognitive or intellectual disabilities or mild learning disabilities should master regular class material has
become sacrosanct in some circles.
Churchill was a night owl, but he took two baths and a two hour nap every afternoon, which he claimed allowed him to be twice as productive as the normal person Naps were
so sacrosanct to Churchill that he unapologetically kept a bed in the House of Parliament.
If we challenge the
previously sacrosanct exclusivity of lawyer - delivered legal services, even a little, we will discover that the extensions of those prohibitions are, ultimately and immediately, doing us more harm than good.
Rather, these groups will be forced to change by the growing trust deficit that is sandblasting the veneer from even the
most sacrosanct institutions.
This is an eyebrow - raising request, since the immutability of transaction records is one of the core features of cryptocurrency, and held as
sacrosanct by many supporters of the technology.
E-commerce is changing a longstanding retail paradigm by accelerating the breakdown in the
once sacrosanct divide between pet specialty and mass.
Marchionne said the Jeep Grand Cherokee's Conner Avenue plant in Detroit also is
sacrosanct for that model.
It also discusses the conditions that made teams effective in these schools, such as
sacrosanct time in the schedule for team meetings; the school principal's active engagement with teams; facilitation of teams by teacher leaders; and the integration of other supports for teacher growth into the fabric of the school.
After struggling with the issue, the Court erred on the side of protecting the
almost sacrosanct attorney - client privilege, holding that, «[o] n balance, and perhaps with some indulgence for human fallibility,» defendant satisfied his burden of showing that he took reasonable steps to preserve the confidentiality of the communication.
Readers with a long memory might recall that I interrupted our
otherwise sacrosanct «School Food Reform - Free Day» last fall to tell you about his research.
The national living wage is a significant intervention in the operations of the free market, a big stick poked in the
supposedly sacrosanct work of supply and demand.
Or even dread over
sacrosanct beliefs — such as the sanctity of life, or the right to free choice — being challenged by emerging technological capabilities.
The Supreme Court based its judgment largely on the near
sacrosanct nature of the constitutional right to vote in a democracy.
We will move heaven and earth to keep that time
sacrosanct because we believe in it that much.»
The Bible shows no concern when its writers were led to replace an earlier name or form of words by a new expression, and consequently it can not be said that either the Bible or Christian tradition has made one particular doctrine of God or one form of
words sacrosanct.
The Supreme Court case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey «treats abortion as a super-right,
more sacrosanct even than the enumerated rights in the Bill of Rights,» Manion wrote.
That will be one nasty political fight, which might result in the death of
certain sacrosanct laws governing the inviolability of pension promises to state employees, and perhaps Federal employees.
More significantly, in 2017 A.I. will penetrate the core of legal reasoning that many lawyers consider
sacrosanct through big data and expert systems.
Nevertheless, if you mean to have a LTA, the standards in regards to your arrangement must be held
practically sacrosanct.
The March 28 and April 11, 2015 rescheduled dates of elections should remain
sacrosanct while the swearing in of the elected President on May 29, 2015 must be respected.
This principle, first proposed 40 years ago by physicist Roger Penrose,
keeps sacrosanct an idea — determinism — key to any physical theory.
This disposal, through which Sobel hopes to keep the four paintings together and «in the public domain,» may follow the letter, if not the spirit, of the «no deaccessions to support operations» rule that is
deemed sacrosanct by most art museums and by their professional organization, the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD).
What sacrosanct school traditions have innovative schools learned to survive — and thrive — without?
Just as the current edition took a major step forward by elimination of the
heretofore sacrosanct, but totally useless period, in legal citation, the editors of the Guide to Canadian Legal Research are able to introduce reality into the practice of citing court decisions by a few simple changes to the recommended Hierarchy of Sources for case law.
«Local control» was
sacrosanct then, and the groups feared that a national test would inevitably lead to a national curriculum.
The latter have included the worldʼs largest piece of graffiti, interpretations of the usually
sacrosanct Stars ʻnʼ Stripes, and using skywriting planes to daub politicized slogans above major US cities.
The trick isn't just to get rid of technology for the night, but to turn sleep into the «
sacrosanct ritual» it was in the time of our ancestors.
Her approach encourages corporations and governments to prioritize user privacy and embed it alongside normal business practices, contending it's possible to hold
privacy sacrosanct and make a profit.
He talked about how Apple behaves in a down cycle, how the company's once -
sacrosanct only - in - Cupertino mind - set is evolving, and the importance of services to Apple's product mix.
Gross writes that, «Soaring debt / GDP ratios in previously
sacrosanct AAA countries have made low - cost funding increasingly a function of central banks as opposed to private market investors.»
This leads to a frightening conclusion: that both lower quality and lower yields of such «previously
sacrosanct debt represent a potential breaking point in our now 40 - year - old global monetary system.»
Salafi teaching upholds the first three generations of Muslim history (salaf) as
sacrosanct alongside the prophetic example.
In bygone times there were
sacrosanct trees that might not be used for firewood and holy animals that might not be slaughtered.
«The humanistic implication (of Miller's thesis) is that these Gospel stories are not the «
sacrosanct possession of a major religious tradition», but of all humankind.
Now nature and providence are challenged by our assertive will at those once -
sacrosanct thresholds: life's inception and life's demise.
They may well wonder what bitter twist of medical logic, legal hair - splitting, or legislative inhumanity denied them the right to a safe and
sacrosanct hospital abortion.
Not only does the average child see more than 40,000 commercials a year, but children are also bombarded by marketing on the previously
sacrosanct Public Broadcasting System.
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