Word: sacrosanctity
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...Their privacy was violated, and I think that violates a community standard that’s sacrosanct here,” Ellison said. In addition to obtaining improper access to teaching staff members’ accounts, the former student “was also dishonest in his dealings with the College and the Administrative Board,” Ellison said...
...genetic analysis he conducts requires him to be on-call for extended periods of time, so he saved himself hours by working after school or on the weekends, and taking Mariana along. While she waited one day, Sebastián gave Mariana expired labels to play with. Labeling is sacrosanct in Sebastián’s field; incorrectly labeled samples can and have ruined entire experiments, which is presumably what one of his fellow grad students was thinking when he alerted a higher-up to Mariana’s presence. The policy was clear: Mariana had to go. Since...
...know the government's broken when, in the face of tough fiscal times, the President freezes government spending but gives the military a pass. That's because spending on the military and homeland security, following 9/11 and the launch of two wars in its wake, has become sacrosanct. But it's too bad - because there is plenty of money to be saved by lopping off the well-marbled fat that clings to the $700 billion the U.S. spends annually on national security...
...nation that ingests huge quantities of butter, beef and cakes keep trim and have such long lives? It could be the red wine, as some believe. But another reason has to be this: in a country where con artists and adulterers are tolerated, the laws governing meals are sacrosanct and are drummed into children before they can even hold a knife. The French don't need their First Lady to plant a vegetable garden at the Élysée Palace to encourage good eating habits. They already know the rules: sit down and take your time, because food...
...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...