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  • Louis Capet was only called Inviolable by a figure of rhetoric; but at bottom was perfectly violable, triable; that he can, and even should be tried.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Perhaps belonging to a former teacher of hers, since she presented it as a Law Inviolable; have you noticed how often teachers new to the game will not make that particular distinction?

    Author! Author! » 2010 » March 2010

  • Presumption One: You can follow my Inviolable Rules because you, the editor, are working with writers and artists who have some degree of talent and are not, in fact, illiterate or anatomy-carefree hacks who you inherited because they bought drinks and/or hookers and/or drunken hookers for someone higher than you on the corporate roster who seems oblivious to their lack of talent.

    Waid Wednesdays #11: More on the Comic Book Editor Mark Waid 2009

  • Here's Mark Waid's Second Inviolable Rule For Editors, Including Himself: if you want something changed, it had damn well better make the story better, or else shut the hell up.

    Waid Wednesdays #10: The Job of the Comic Book Editor Mark Waid 2009

  • The Media's Ten Inviolable Rules for Reporting on the Conflict Between Israelis ( "the Jews") and Arabs yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'The Media\'s Ten Inviolable Rules for Reporting on the Conflict Between Israelis ( "the Jews") and Arabs'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: A practical set of rules for the media to use in reporting on the conflict between Israelis ( "the Jews") and Arabs.'

    The Media's Ten Inviolable Rules for Reporting on the Conflict Between Israelis ("the Jews") and Arabs 2006

  • Al-Makarr, means the Residence or the Place of Quiet; Makinat, the Firmly-fixed, (in the right faith); Al-Harim, the Sacred or Inviolable; and, finally,

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • (I am quite convinced he could not have uttered three words, but for the amazing energy with which this word inspired him when he felt it coming.) 'Inviolable secret - a - from the whole world

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • Times indeed have changed since the "Inviolable Constitutions" laid it down that _nullus omnino

    Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

  • Providence Pope, Supreme Pontiff of the Inviolable Church of Rome, and of the whole world, these from your Holiness 'most humble petitioner and servant William de Salvarvilla, Chanter of Paris and Archdeacon of

    The Founders of the New Devotion: Being the Lives of Gerard Groote, Florentius Radewin and Their Followers. 1379?-1471 1905

  • P: These it was who disbelieved and debarred you from the Inviolable

    Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902

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