Word: sacrosanct
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...faces a defiant popular movement, whose leaders and participants refuse to back down, even as many of its members continue to be imprisoned and sentenced with heavy jail terms. He has also been doggedly attacked by conservative members of the Iranian parliament on both domestic policy and the formerly sacrosanct issue of negotiations with the West on Iran's production of nuclear energy. On Oct. 27, the head of the Parliamentary Energy Committee stated that Russia, which has positioned itself as a key player in any deal between Iran and the West, "has turned its back on Iran many times...
...smaller base of resources.” While times are tough, the administration should be extremely reluctant to slash funds for this cornerstone of the university. During this period of budget contraction, cuts have necessarily been extended to many parts of the school, yet libraries are one of the sacrosanct areas of this institution that deserve preservation in particular...
...part of the U.S. health-care apparatus has been more sacrosanct in the current debate than the job-based insurance system that provides coverage for some 160 million Americans, or about 60% of all insured Americans. Yet the numbers behind that system show that it may be just as unsustainable as - if not more than - the U.S. health-care system as a whole, in which costs nationwide are on pace to exceed 20% of our gross domestic product by 2018. Premiums for employer-sponsored insurance increased 131% from 1999 to 2009, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation; over the same...
...more states have adopted laws regulating where sex offenders can go, it was only a matter of time before the noble goal of protecting children butted heads with the sacrosanct First Amendment right to worship where and when you choose. Which takes precedence...
...possible. At its first fall meeting in early September, the committee moved into a phase of “convergent thinking,” during which it scrapped ideas deemed unfeasible. “The ground rules for the first phase was you could think of everything. Nothing is sacrosanct because you could have ideas that spin off of those,” Kosslyn said. “Now we’re beyond that...