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.

From The Wall Street Journal

In his closing submission to the tribunal, the nurses' barrister Niazi Fetto KC said the policy was "unjustifiably treated as sacrosanct" by managers and "prescribed the disadvantageous treatment of biological females".

From BBC

Society has changed extremely over the past century, but this much is sacrosanct: Important people expect courses.

From Salon

Her assertions aside, if there had been anything left of the once-strong firewall between the department and the White House – long considered sacrosanct by presidents of both parties – it is now gone.

From BBC