In conclusion, Netanyahu will invoke those ties of warm affection, mutual respect, and concern for human rights and freedom that join Israel and the United States in an alliance the president himself has called sacrosanct.
Some newspapers and television stations have taken to calling the once sacrosanct Mr. Kohl Don Kohleonee," an allusion to the corruption scandals, some of them Mafia-linked, that brought down Italy's Christian Democrats in the 1990's.
Even France's sacrosanct high minimum wage is called into question with the proposed introduction of a "negative tax" to top up low wages.
But more controversially, he would get rid of faculty tenure at universities, which he calls "an outdated sacrosanct privilege of a few somebodies held at the expense of many nobodies".
What was instructive about his brief solo performance — which also nodded to Thelonious Monk, by way of his tune "Epistrophy," and Randy Weston, whose style suffused an original ballad called "Spellbound and Sacrosanct, Cowrie Shells and the Shimmering Sea" — had to do with the transformation of familiar elements into a personalized new form.
The bill strikes at the heart of home rule, a sacrosanct precept in Westchester, which allows towns to call their own shots on land use decisions.
Bach's six solo Sonatas and Partitas might be sacrosanct for violinists – the instrument's Himalayas, George Enescu called them – but they're regularly pinched by violists, lutenists, mandolinists and others.
Another hope is for less piety, a shift in the altogether mystifying popular notion that the lifetime home-run mark is somehow sacrosanct — "baseball's most hallowed record," as the news reports called it the other day.
Still, there are designations that must remain sacrosanct, and some serious infractions indicate it is time to call in the food cops and perhaps to pass a law or two.
The sacrosanct vacations (five paid weeks per year) plus the many holidays and the in-between days called le pont (the bridge) turns the lovely month of May, for example, into a barely-there month of leisure more than labor.
