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sa kroh sangkt

  • s  must be kept sacred

  • The remains of the dead should be treated as sacrosanct and re-examined only for reasons of great importance.
  • What may appear to be a simple matter of hiring a few experts is more traumatic in Asia, where tight-knit families are sacrosanct.
  • Even Japan's Imperial House is now being dragged into industrial promotion, though as yet His Majesty the Son of Heaven is sacrosanct.
News & Articles

  • Letter: A defense against tyranny
    Editor: The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, part of The Bill of Rights, without which the Constitution would not have been ratified by the states, is sacrosanct under the rule of law.
    June 14, 2013 - The St. Augustine Record
  • Inside The House Armed Services Committee
    The House Armed Services Committee is responsible for authorizing an annual Defense Department budget of more than half a trillion dollars at a time when defense spending, for the first time in perhaps decades, is not treated across the political spectrum as sacrosanct. The result is that committee Chairman Buck McKeon and his defense-conscious colleagues are left to fend off—or at least try to ...
    June 13, 2013 - National Journal via Yahoo! News
  • Blog: Cows need their tails!
    In Vermont, where the dairy industry is sacrosanct, there is a bill to ban tail docking in our state legislature. I was impressed when I saw that Dairy Herd Management editor Tom Quaife had written a piece back in 2002 called "Tail Docking Makes Little Sense," and opined that "tail docking is no longer a justifiable practice."
    June 11, 2013 - Dairy Herd
Quotes

  • Sepp Blatter in SportingNews.com
    I would say it is a little surprising that the motherland of football has ignored a sacrosanct law or belief that the national team manager should be from the same country as the players,Blatter told the BBC. "I have never seen Italy,...
  • Barack Obama in WHNS
    Condemning its leader for denying the Holocaust, threatening Israel, trying to attain nuclear weapons and arm Hamas and other organizations, Obama said, "Israel's security is sacrosanct. It is nonnegotiable."
  • Jacob Zuma in Sunday Independent (subscription)
    How do we explain the audacity of criminals who break into and rob a court of law, violating an institution which should protect us all, whose premises should be sacrosanct,Zuma said to loud applause.

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