sacrosanct
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Civic agencies are often reluctant to widen footpaths because they view carriageway space as sacrosanct.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Bidding to succeed his former mentor in 1995, Jospin shocked many Socialists by claiming a "right of inventory" over Mitterrand's legacy -- a right to reassess a record that loyalists deemed sacrosanct.
From Barron's ● Mar. 23, 2026
The comment is a jolt of realism for German elites, who, more than 80 years after World War II, generally treat international law as sacrosanct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
Cannon asserted that doing so here would violate “the presumption of innocence held sacrosanct in our constitutional order,” but that is nonsense.
From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2026
She was required to wear a ridiculous uniform and creep around the house as quietly as a mouse, lest she disturb the judge in his seemingly endless and sacrosanct deliberations.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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