With this new status came the inviolability of the person of God's anointed (a characteristically Davidic idea) and a court rhetoric adapted from pagan models in which the king was styled "the [firstborn] son of God".
Following Kant or Mill, we may defend this convention either by appealing to the inviolability of autonomy, or to the benefits of treating liberty as inviolable, subject only to considerations of harm to others.
… This is a flagrant violation of the inviolability of its premises under international law.
But for a government so fiercely insistent on the inviolability of its own sovereignty, this was a big step.It has also softened this same principle as applied to some of its nastier diplomatic friends, such as Myanmar and Sudan.
All this praise for Indians as defenders of the inviolability of the earth would have been historically richer if Linklater had taken up actual Indian mapping practices.
This principle, which is meant to protect the inviolability of the capacity for voluntary choice in the context of research, is also fundamental in the ethical and legal principles that govern the doctrine of informed consent in the context of treatment.
Early in this century, economic liberty--the notion that the inviolability of contracts prohibits government interference in private business activity--provided the rationale for Supreme Court decisions, since overruled, that struck down laws establishing a minimum wage and banning child labor.
The British government must use this month's landmark world humanitarian summit to stress the inviolability of international humanitarian law and push for new and more effective ways to help the millions of people afflicted by wars and disasters, a group of MPs has said.
In 1979 Bulgaria proposed a treaty with Yugoslavia that would guarantee the inviolability of the borders established after World War II; this proposal was rejected, however, because of Bulgaria's refusal to admit the existence of a distinct Macedonian nationality.
Alas, I get the feeling that China is seen as cynically trailing in Russia's slipstream, using Moscow to make the public case for the inviolability of national sovereignty, or as it is known in this case, defending tyranny.
