"The boundaries in the ground are sacred," said State Representative Brian Patrick Kennedy, a Democrat from Hopkinton.
"The reality is, that might be the only agreement, because after that you get to both sides' sacred cows," said Representative Jack Kingston, a Georgia Republican and senior member of the House Appropriations Committee.
The dohyo is representative of the sacred grounds of the shrines where sumo bouts were first fought; topknots are an ode to the hairstyles of the Samurai; and the referees, who dress in the guise of a Shinto priest, carry a dagger to signify the days when they would commit seppuku (ritual suicide) if they made an error during a contest.
Several years ago, two related personal experiences deeply affected the course of my advocacy and the carrying out of these sacred tasks through ReconcilingWorks as transgender representative and board member.
Because he was credited with divine power himself, the pharaoh, as a sacred king, was regarded as Egypt's representative to the gods and its most important upholder of maat.
"Pray that the people [who] did this take responsibility for their actions on this sacred property and that they seek reconciliation," a mission representative wrote on Facebook.
Over the next year he visited 200 temples and monasteries — about 10percentt of the sacred sites in Bhutan — accompanied by a high-ranking monk and a representative of the royal government.
Most of the time in Japan was spent near the sacred center of Mount Fuji, where they met with local elders and representatives.
A 1977 booklet from the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs, entitled Decolonization in East Timor, paid tribute to the "sacred right of self-determination" and recognised APODETI as the true representatives of the East Timorese majority.
+ The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian held an emergency meeting, with NGO officials, tribal leaders, and government representatives, to cancel an auction of human remains and sacred indigenous objects in Paris.
