Sentence examples for were inviolable from inspiring English sources

In Muscovy and China, slave owners could sell or will children apart from their parents, but marriages were inviolable.

It has long been an unwritten rule of China's power politics that men of Mr Zhou's stature were inviolable.

When everything blew up in our faces, when the wealth they'd created was revealed as fraudulent, they'd already been pandered to so much that they were inviolable.

It will be a hard sell politically, especially since the only way to pay for such a tax cut would be to siphon off even more of the Social Security revenues that Mr. Bush once said were inviolable.

This appearance of eternity in the heavenly bodies, led the philosophers to conclude that the heavens were inviolable.

Defence spending is inviolable.

That rule is inviolable.

The words themselves are inviolable.

"All diplomatic information is inviolable.

For him football was inviolable.

Official correspondence and diplomatic bags are inviolable".