To Patagonia and similar businesses, this poses an existential threat to the thing they hold most "sacred," in the words of its chief executive, Rose Marcario, with the potential for the land to be leased or sold for mineral and fracking exploitation.
But Carlos Carrizosa from the anti-independence Citizens's Party, who was first to speak in Friday's session, said the text would "destroy what we hold most sacred, living together in harmony".
With the pilgrimage of the Hajj about to reach its pinnacle on Eid al Adha – a day hold most sacred in Islam as it marked God's mercy towards Abraham as he readied his son for sacrifice, Muslims have been painfully reminded of the violence and oppression they have had to face by the hand of the Saudi regime.
"What does it imply about us that we so easily strip the freedoms of our citizens of the values that we hold most sacred as a nation?" Though the project was embarked upon years ago, its recent showing at the Studio Museum in Harlem illuminated its correlation with recent current events involving police killings of unarmed persons like Eric Garner and Michael Brown.
I am referring here to the religious clerics.We have to think hard about what we are facing... It's inconceivable that the thinking that we hold most sacred should cause the entire umma [Islamic world] to be a source of anxiety, danger, killing and destruction for the rest of the world.
So, all individual rights are sacred--except the rights that are held most dearly by religious people in general and orthodox Christians in particular?
The Roman Catholic Church objected to it being held on the most sacred day of the liturgical year, suggesting that riders would not have time to attend mass and that spectators might not bother to attend either.
The Kingdom holds Islam's most sacred sites and sees only Iran as its rival in speaking for the world's Muslims.
Raziq's funeral prayers were held at the city's most sacred shrine, said to hold the cloak of the prophet Muhammad, as the provincial governor and other officials fought for their lives in hospital.
"And at another such debate," the interviewer says, paying no attention to what I thought was a pretty salient point about James Naismith, "when discussing the attacks on Danish embassies after Danish newspapers published cartoons depicting Muhammad, I believe that you said the following: 'We have to expect a strong response when people's most sacred, deeply held beliefs are insulted.
Both Classic and recent Maya held the tzolkin as the most sacred means of divination, enabling the priests to detect the favourable or evil influences attached to every day according to the esoteric significance of the numbers and the day-signs.
