(n.) A sacred place; a consecrated spot; a holy and inviolable site.
(n.) The most retired part of the temple at Jerusalem, called the Holy of Holies, in which was kept the ark of the covenant, and into which no person was permitted to enter except the high priest, and he only once a year, to intercede for the people; also, the most sacred part of the tabernacle; also, the temple at Jerusalem.
(n.) The most sacred part of any religious building, esp. that part of a Christian church in which the altar is placed.
(n.) A house consecrated to the worship of God; a place where divine service is performed; a church, temple, or other place of worship.
(n.) A sacred and inviolable asylum; a place of refuge and protection; shelter; refuge; protection.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous studies suggest that patients who are in clinical remission harbor tumor in multiple occult "sanctuaries."
(2) Conservatives have called for federal funding to be curtailed if a municipality maintains a “sanctuary” policy.
(3) Other kinds of intelligence, particularly that on the effect of drone attacks on the leadership of al-Qaida and its allies in Pakistan , also suggest that the frontier zone is not the sanctuary it once was.
(4) Prince William is due to make a speech about conservation at an elephant sanctuary in China on 4 March.
(5) Just last year, a researcher at Jane Goodall's primate sanctuary in South Africa suffered "multiple and severe bite wounds" after getting too close to a group of chimps and being dragged off.
(6) In the town of Boali, 60 miles to the north, the Catholic priest Xavier-Arnauld Fagba went from house to house and into the bush to offer Muslims sanctuary in his church .
(7) Instead, he called on Catholic parishes to offer sanctuary to refugee families.
(8) Lord Dubs: refugees face greater hostility than ever in 2017 Read more “We have a record of which we are justifiably proud in relation to refugees, giving sanctuary to 8,000 last year, and children are continuing to arrive every year.
(9) The infiltrative characteristics of acute monocytic leukemia and the anatomic barriers and location of the testicles may have provided a sanctuary from chemotherapy.
(10) Fielding nods enthusiastically: 'By running a butterfly sanctuary in Peru.'
(11) The MCS has warned, however, that fragile coastal habitats such as estuaries, saltmarsh and bird sanctuaries are excluded from any proposed new routes.
(12) Leukemic invasion of the eye should receive appropriate recognition; the posterior pole should be included in the treatment of the central nervous system as a pharmacologic sanctuary.
(13) May said the coalition's plans for emergency sanctuary had been cleared with the UNHCR in London and had its endorsement.
(14) A UK Border Agency spokesman said: "The UK has a proud record of offering sanctuary to those who need it, but people who do not have a genuine need for our protection must return to their home country.
(15) Attendance at scientific sessions of learned professional societies and short courses should be accompanied by presession and post-session guided reading to be undertaken in the physician's home library-sanctuary.
(16) Nevertheless, he will be offered the sanctuary of the vulnerable prisoner unit, where most of his peers will have been convicted of sexual crimes.
(17) The conjunctiva may well be an iatrogenic "sanctuary site" when this disease is treated with PUVA therapy.
(18) This progress has resulted from a closely integrated scientific effort, including drug development, pharmacology, preclinical modeling, experimental design with respect to clinical trials, quantitative criteria for response, and a series of clinical trials (initially in children with acute lymphocytic leukemia) in which the importance of complete remission, of dose and schedule, of sequencing chemotherapeutic agents, of pharmacological sanctuaries, and particularly of combination chemotherapy was studied.
(19) They’re allowed to offer help, as many do, but the idea that sanctuary policies are somehow going to be struck down in the courts is absurd because they’re totally legal,” Graber said.
(20) The decision to recall the ambassador was taken “in protest at the increasing and unprecedented Israeli escalation in the Noble Sanctuary, and the repeated Israeli violations of Jerusalem,” Jordan’s Petra news agency said.
Sanctum
Definition:
(n.) A sacred place; hence, a place of retreat; a room reserved for personal use; as, an editor's sanctum.
Example Sentences:
(1) The antibacterial spectrum of E. alba was in between that of T. chebula and O. sanctum.
(2) Wallace Broecker's office looks at first glance what you might expect from the inner sanctum of one of the world's leading geoscientists and oceanographers.
(3) The dressing room door is the ultimate inner sanctum.
(4) The leaf extracts of Ocimum sanctum, Lawsonia inermis and Calotropis gigantea and leaf and flower extracts of Azadirachta indica were, however, found to inhibit both mMDH and mME.
(5) "You don't have to be in the inner sanctum of everything to be able to exercise influence in leadership," he says.
(6) Its concentric passageway symbolises the guided, ritualised walk of the common man towards the sacred inner sanctum of the democratic parliament hall.
(7) Where her predecessors were accused of appointing women as “window dressing” but keeping them out of the room where big decisions are taken, May seems to be doing the reverse: building an inner sanctum in her own image while filling the shop window with figures reassuring to those diehard backbench Eurosceptics who could otherwise make her life as impossible as John Major’s.
(8) The activity against Salmonella organisms was shown only by T. chebula; against Shigella organisms by T. chebula and E. alha; but not by O. sanctum.
(9) Grierson was handpicked by James Cameron to use the Canadian film-maker's 3D Fusion Camera System on Sanctum.
(10) A methanol extract and an aqueous suspension of Ocimum sanctum leaves were investigated for their immunoregulatory profile to antigenic challenge of Salmonella typhosa and sheep erythrocytes by quantifying agglutinating antibodies employing the Widal agglutination and sheep erythrocyte agglutination tests and E-rosette formation in albino rats.
(11) I remember as a boy being allowed into the inner sanctum of the light room and sitting inside the space between the lenses, looking out at the world through the bevelled glass.
(12) Gaby Hinsliff : She has built an inner sanctum in her own image – but has given top jobs to only seven women The one thing nobody expected from Theresa May was a cabinet stuffed with middle-aged men.
(13) Effects of restraint stress (RS) and its modulation by O. sanctum (Os), eugenol and T. malabarica (Tm) were evaluated on some biochemical and biophysical parameters in rats.
(14) Defections from the regime's forces to the Free Syria Army have been constant for the past few months, but Damascus maintains control of many key divisions and is not known to have lost any members of its most elite units or inner sanctum.
(15) The chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander – along with David Cameron, George Osborne and Nick Clegg – is a member of the quad, the inner sanctum on which the coalition is built.
(16) An ethanol extract of the leaves of Ocimum sanctum was screened for its effects on the central nervous system.
(17) Wonderingly, you wander upstairs and into the sanctum of his bedchamber.
(18) So near yet so far: inside the inner sanctum, but outside the inner circle.
(19) Persistent bombing by Syrian military jets and artillery has been unable to dislodge armed opposition groups who have been poised on the edge of the capital's inner sanctum, but unable to advance.
(20) He said it was around 10 October, but most of what remained of the inner sanctum was forming a protective guard weeks earlier than that.