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The market and the contract have become sacrosant; at the expense of all else.
Wonk Room » The Supreme Court Term In Review, Part I: The Environment 2009
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Under Bush policy, targeted killings of terrorists wherever they were or deemed to be, was sacrosant.
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So the message had to be sent, no matter how unpopular, that the DNC calendar was sacrosant, and that its rules would be enforced.
Granholm: "I'm Deeply Disappointed" Michigan Revote Is Dead 2009
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Under Bush policy, targeted killings of terrorists wherever they were or deemed to be, was sacrosant.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Painful Truth in Cheney's Spat with Obama 2009
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No matter how hard we fight to keep our own distinct voices intact, the integrity of our plots sacrosant, one eye is always watching the marketplace and what works and what doesn't.
NOIR “WHORES” 2007
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So the message had to be sent, no matter how unpopular, that the DNC calendar was sacrosant, and that its rules would be enforced.
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We have to stop thinking of public education and the people who run it as some sacrosant institution above scrutiny and criticism, where all who run it must be virtuous beings because of the low pay they receive for their noble efforts.
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They say: my beliefs are sacrosant, yours are conjecture and myth.
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Since Conservativism is not an ideology, there is no need to see Laissez Faire Capitalism and Anarcho-capitalism as sacrosant.
Global Warming 2006
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Chavez then made a costly mistake – he said the National Armed Forces was also "red, red", violating a sacrosant tradition which has always separated the Armed Forces from politics.
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