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sacrosanct | American Dictionary

sacrosanct
adjective
us/ˈsæk·roʊˌsæŋkt/
so important that there cannot be any change or question:
His time with his children was sacrosanct.

Examples of sacrosanct

sacrosanct
Moreover, by constant repetition of the brilliance of her work it has become sacrosanct, to the extent that any criticism of it is invariably quashed.
Each of these figures is merely an arbitrary unit; neither is sacrosanct.
We saw in the second part of the paper how the border, once defined, quickly became sacrosanct.
This distinction between a sacrosanct work (words and notes) and its conceptual rendering does not apply so easily to earlier twentieth-century productions.
Is there something sacrosanct about the human life form?
In these circumstances, parental control is rightly not treated as sacrosanct.
First, the canon begins to look less sacrosanct and is thus readied for expansion to include works by longdead representatives of those same groups.
Nothing could or should be sacrosanct in model construction.
Acknowledgement of the private domain is sacrosanct in other areas of legislation, in fact heavily policed, but not addressed in discussions of the acoustic environment beyond amplitude limitations.
For this reason, a writer's output would enter the public domain five years after his or her death, where it became part of a sacrosanct national heritage.
Other lines of responsibility appear sacrosanct.
He even dismissed the sacrosanct role of "civilization" in determining the regularity of those behavioral tendencies, embracing a relativistic paradigm that would have immediate consequences at all levels.
Zakat was hardly sacrosanct and had been subject to manipulation in the past.
Opponents of the justice rationale might further argue that being forced to make a publicly recorded choice violates standards of fairness because the right of decisional privacy is sacrosanct.
Within this moral multiverse an individual patient may lose his place as the supreme subject of medical care, as seemingly sacrosanct values are jettisoned and replaced with relative ease.
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