The prospect of a British Queen visiting those hallowed sights will inflame further the passions of the unrepresentative but vocal, often violent, minority who adhere to dissident republicanism.
It's probably not a good idea to turn their hallowed Mecca into a themed retail experience, nor to rub salt in the wound by commissioning ageing has-beens to design an "as-found skate space" down the road.
The bill defies a tradition, dating to the 13th century, that says Jews should not tread on the hallowed ground.
Each side accuses the other of despoiling a hallowed British institution.
The failure to report failures means that researchers waste money and effort exploring blind alleys already investigated by other scientists.The hallowed process of peer review is not all it is cracked up to be, either.
Defending hallowed soil from Japan is something that everyone can agree on.Just hours earlier, however, the government was paddling back from a much less successful attempt at teaching patriotism.
For them, this is hallowed ground.The thoroughly modern museum, clearly a product of mathematical models and digital design, nonetheless features the undulating surfaces and sense of movement that Balthasar Neumann and his Baroque contemporaries would appreciate.
Mr Rakoff called the settlement not just a betrayal of the public interest, but the product of an approach "hallowed by history but not by reason" that provided the SEC with little beyond a "quick headline".
For India's younger entrepreneurs, even Mr Nilekani is now a distant, hallowed figure.
But what particularly incensed the Japanese is that their sake, hallowed for its purity, was being tampered with.
Mrs Whitman deserves more credit than she has been getting lately—just as, one year after Mr Dole's electoral humiliation, surging federal tax revenues make his fiscal promises appear less implausible.Whatever this unfairness, a hallowed piece of conventional wisdom seems to have been punctured.
