Word: sacrosanctity
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...await determination by the courts, and more are coming in every day. This avalanche has caused legal and bureaucratic gridlock. Few Aboriginal groups accept mediation by whites. No two groups agree on land use. Some, for instance, think that tribal land should not be exploited at all, and left sacrosanct. Others are for all-out mining...
...Program, with an official Orwellian mandate to “protect and control” Harvard’s brand identity across the world, show up to work each day to ensure that, Heaven forbid, no street vendor in Dakar or Dot sells an unlicensed T-shirt with our sacrosanct insignia on it. The Harvard name does not merely signify unrivaled academic power—it signifies the registered trademark of unrivaled academic power, full rights reserved to the President and Fellows of Harvard College...
...anti-Semitic to ask why the Palestinians should pay the price for the ghastly crime of the Germans? Why were the property rights of the German perpetrators sacrosanct and those of the guiltless Palestinians adjudged an acceptable casualty? In U.S. foreign policy, not all racial groups are guaranteed the same rights and protections. Otherwise, why does the U.S. rightly defend Jewish people’s claims on European bank accounts, property, and compensation for labor expropriated during the 1930s and 1940s, while quashing the rights of millions of Palestinians refugees to lands, houses, and goods stolen as a condition...
...freedom of inquiry. Educational institutions must, first and foremost, foster discussion and engagement with a variety of perspectives—both in the classroom and through extracurricular activity. To bar extracurricular discourse on sexuality in the name of a conservative and intolerant notion of social propriety violates this sacrosanct educational mission, instead reinforcing a discriminatory practice and denying students their basic right to information...
...refer to her as the pillow angel. I know that's meant to be a sweet term, but it's terminally infantalizing." Her organization issued a statement affirming that "we hold as non-negotiable the principle that personal and physical autonomy of all people with disabilities be regarded as sacrosanct." With the right information and support, disability rights advocates believe, there is no need for a medical solution to an essentially social problem...