Word: sacrosanctity
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...task force will recommend exploration on sacrosanct federal lands - including the controversial Alaska National Wildlife Refuge - and possibly offshore tracts...
...Even if it represents something of a p.r. nightmare to the drug companies, the trial concerns a principle they deem sacrosanct - that in the market economics of the pharmaceutical industry, profit remains the only incentive for the development of new cures. It's a compelling argument, of course, within its own logic (even though its critics like to point out that some of the AIDS drugs, such as protease inhibitors, were originally developed in taxpayer-funded institutions). But it's difficult to fault the drug companies for behaving according to corporate logic, which is based, above all else...
...does all this add up to a major and sacrosanct achievement, as the art historians who have compiled the catalog so vehemently claim? To feel so, you would need to think that ideas about art equal...
...five permanent members - Russia, China, France, Britain and the U.S. - militates against rapid intervention. China, for example, has a history of nixing any operation that it perceives as interference in the internal affairs of a member state, no matter how irksome, for fear that any violation of that sacrosanct principle might rebound on Beijing some day. And the permanent members certainly don't see eye to eye on issues ranging from Iraq to Kosovo, while Russia reserved its right to systematically bomb and shell civilian villages in Chechnya on the grounds that it was a domestic matter...
Each dean of Harvard's ten schools, from the Medical School to the Law School to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), saw his own administration as sacrosanct. They competed against each other for alumni dollars and real estate and considered any intervention by the University as a whole unacceptable...