(a.) Not violable; not susceptible of hurt, wound, or harm (used with respect to either physical or moral damage); not susceptible of being profaned or corrupted; sacred; holy; as, inviolable honor or chastity; an inviolable shrine.
(a.) Not capable of being broken or violated; as, an inviolable covenant, agreement, promise, or vow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Trierweiler has broken a fundamental principle of French political life, an unwritten law inherited from the Ancien Régime and perpetuated by France's revolutionary nomenklatura, that the private life – and by that I mean sex life – of a public figure must remain inviolable.
(2) The former foreign secretary, William Hague, warned earlier this month that central bankers could lose their independence if they ignored public anger over low interest rates, while Michael Gove, the leading pro-leave campaigner and former cabinet minister, compared Carney to the Chinese emperor Ming , whose “person was held to be inviolable and without imperfections” and whose critics were flayed alive.
(3) The two organisms may behave in clinically indistinguishable fashion and probably justify a more cautious approach to the clinical syndromes we have considered the inviolate domain of the gonococcus.
(4) The principles of atraumatic technique, as set down many years ago by Bunnell, remain inviolate.
(5) Since the moment of fecundation the human embryo is endowed with the properties of unity and uniqueness and its existence is therefore inviolable.
(6) This paper examines the logic of this position and argues that once the fetus has passed a certain stage of neurological development it is a person, and that then the whole issue becomes one of balancing of rights: the right-to-life of the fetal person against the right to autonomy and inviolability of the woman; and that the fetal right usually wins.
(7) Putin's new relativism over non-interference and inviolability of borders raised incidentally the prospect of a possible geopolitical trade-off.
(8) The court said : Inviolability of privacy in group association may in many circumstances be indispensable to preservation of freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.
(9) Last autumn, he breached the cap on welfare spending he had, just a few months earlier, insisted would be inviolate.
(10) In this paper we reject the "sanctity-of-life" view, which holds that all human lives, irrespective of their quality or kind, are equally valuable and inviolable.
(11) Updated at 3.54pm GMT 3.38pm GMT Putin has spoken with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the phone and their positions on the Ukraine crisis are “close”, the Kremlin said, according to Reuters: The Kremlin said the presidents of the veto-wielding U.N. Security Council nation expressed hope that “the steps taken by the Russian leadership will allow for the reduction of ... tension and provide for the security of Russian-speaking citizens living in Crimea and the eastern regions of Ukraine.” Writing last week in Foreign Policy, Timothy Snyder argued that Russia’s Ukraine play could have long-term negative consequences for the integrity of the long border it shares with China: If Russia excludes its own borders from the general international standard of inviolability, it might face some unwanted challenges down the road.
(12) People have made calculations about how they are to handle the costs of old age, bringing up their children, physical incapacity or the lack of work in their area on the basis of social contributions to their circumstance that they reckoned on being an inviolable part of the deal.
(13) "Wherever the IMF has gone, its first and inviolate rule everywehre has been the levelling of wages and pensions," said Antonis Samaras, the country's conservative main opposition leader.
(14) Flag's challenge to the notion that symbols of state are fixed and inviolable - that they are not, under any circumstance, open to interpretation - was received at the time as blasphemous.
(15) On the path to his little cabin, he relates, there was a dead horse, whose aroma repulsed him but heartened him with "the assurance it gave me of the strong appetite and inviolable health of Nature".
(16) But in terms of the school system it has to start in primary school – the respect for girls, the recognition of gender equality as an inviolable norm, needs to be so deeply ingrained into children that by the time they grow up and become adolescents it's really part of them.
(17) The concept of the inviolability of the human person constitutes the basic tenet of biomedical ethics.
(18) First as Cassius Clay, then as Ali, this remarkable boxer totally reset the marks, utterly changed all inviolate techniques and tenets.
(19) The ramifications of this latest intrusion by surgeons into a previously inviolate anatomic area have involved neurosurgeons, ophthalmologists, anesthesiologists, and dental and psycho-social disciplines.
(20) Although these cytologic criteria remain valid, they are not inviolate and exceptions exist that may result in diagnostic ambiguity.
Sacrosanct
Definition:
(a.) Sacred; inviolable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus soaps are sacrosanct, Murderland with Robbie Coltrane is in, but Al Murray's Pub Landlord is definitely out, because it "goes down like a cup of cold sick in Scotland, a cockney landlord shouting at an audience".
(2) The NSA considers its ability to search for Americans' data through its massive collections of email, phone, text and other communications content a critical measure to discover terrorists and a sacrosanct prerogative.
(3) Many firms already make profits from providing services to schools, such as maintaining buildings and handling personnel matters, but until now the classroom itself has been sacrosanct.
(4) In my day, the reputation of the bank was sacrosanct.
(5) Until recently, the role of scientists in society has been considered sacrosanct.
(6) In the many internal rows on the subject, IDS argued that too much of the pain of austerity was being inflicted on the working-age poor, while pensioner benefits were treated as sacrosanct even when perks such as the free TV licence and winter fuel payments went to wealthy oldsters.
(7) I believe that the right to refuse a client is universal and sacrosanct; this right is the essential difference between a free sex worker and a coerced one.
(8) Elements of the left and the right agree that individual freedom should be sacrosanct, and that people should be allowed to make their own choices in life.
(9) One of the debates that has been reignited in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, principally among high school students, is why, if freedom of speech is so sacrosanct, the same right to offend was not granted to Dieudonné.
(10) In this paper I discuss the origins of the view that scientists and geneticists in particular, are sacrosanct.
(11) The paper's legal advice was that it could do no more than publish a front-page story saying it had been prevented from publishing the proceedings of parliament – a sacrosanct right since the 18th-century.
(12) No species has a sacrosanct right to everlasting life and surely it would be better to die out while living free rather than appear in this endless circus.
(13) We suggested that if we could prove to the court's satisfaction that the presence of the movement was demonstrably and effectively relevant to preventing an assault on the very rights and needs on the basis of which authorities are licensed to curtail otherwise sacrosanct rights such as the right to protest, then clearly that should be key to ascertaining on which side of this legal dispute the most "pressing social need" lay.
(14) They teach only four lessons daily, and their professional autonomy is sacrosanct.
(15) The passivity exhibited by Eulex has confirmed the apparent sacrosanctity of the elite instead, and it has reinforced what has aptly been called Kosovo’s “glass ceiling of accountability”.
(16) Vestager pushed through swingeing cuts to the country’s once-sacrosanct unemployment and early retirement benefits while economic affairs minister in the unstable three-party leftist coalition headed by the former Social Democrat prime minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
(17) We are particularly grateful for Liberty’s efforts in spearheading this litigation and making it possible for this information to be brought to light.” James Welch, legal director for Liberty, said: “Last year it was revealed that GCHQ were eavesdropping on sacrosanct lawyer-client conversations.
(18) 3.46pm GMT Kelly says the right to bear arms is sacrosanct, but the right does not extend to criminals, terrorists and the mentally ill. "Gabby and I are pro-gun ownership.
(19) Our view is that the 3pm window should remain sacrosanct and we’ve got serious reservations about increasing the amount of football on television,” said the FSF chairman, Malcolm Clarke.
(20) Legally, the handgun has been awarded sacrosanct status.