sacrosanct
Example Sentences
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If Summers’ “sacrosanct rule” was meant to sound sinister a decade ago, it carries considerably darker resonance today.
From Salon
Lawmakers will take aim at vehicle-safety mandates in a coming Senate hearing, targeting some auto-industry regulations once considered too sacrosanct to attack.
States also are developing legislation that boosts new housing development as quickly as possible, sometimes by tweaking what have long been sacrosanct zoning and land-use policies.
From Seattle Times
Nevertheless, the planetary science community trusts that the space agency will eventually launch this mission for the sheer reason that the US federal government traditionally holds decadal-survey recommendations to be sacrosanct.
From Scientific American
The attorney-client privilege is sacrosanct and cannot be easily overcome.
From Salon
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