Word: sacrosanctity
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...overseas possessions. Last year more than 40% of the country's $1.3 billion budget was spent on a military effort to put down insurrection movements in the three African territories of Mozambique, Angola and Guinea-Bissau. Now an influential Portuguese leader has openly questioned the government's sacrosanct policy that the overseas provinces must be preserved at all cost. Ironically, this dovish challenge comes from General Antonio de Spinola, a hero of the African wars. Meanwhile, hawkish devotion to the status quo prevails in the civilian-dominated National Assembly...
...Some say the Yard is an architectural museum and should be kept as such; others, though by far the minority, are willing to tolerate a certain amount of experimentation. However the critical issue is not the Yard as object, but rather the Yard as place. To proclaim all buildings sacrosanct simply because they have been built there is nostalgia rather than architectural evaluation; on the other hand, architectural and environmental experimentation would transform the Yard's character completely...
...sense perception." But nei ther he nor generations of scientists who followed him had the knowledge or techniques to explore it. Investigation was also stymied by philosophical obstacles. The brain was considered the seat of the soul; its nature and its workings were considered not only unfathomable but sacrosanct...
Like the flag and motherhood, "the old-age, survivors, disability, and health-insurance program," popularly known as Social Security, has long enjoyed an almost sacrosanct status with politicians and the public. Basically a Government-administered plan under which retired workers receive as a right financial benefits paid for in taxes by employees and their companies, the once modest program has developed into a mammoth system that touches the lives of practically every American. Despite the program's undiminished popularity, however, payroll deductions to pay for rapidly growing benefits have soared in recent years, with the most painful burden falling...
...recent decades, the American presidency has assumed an almost sacrosanct aura. It is time to remember that quite literally, and not as a flourish of speech, the sovereign in America is not the President but the people. It is true that the people elect him, which gives him his unique mandate, but to conclude from this that a President must be preserved in all circumstances, at any cost, is the first unwitting step toward dictatorship...