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416 examples of Sacred in a sentence

Are genes the essence of an individual and a sacred part of the human inheritance?
Although the Danish cartoons might not appear offensive to many, they certainly insult principles that Muslims hold sacred.
Today's reformists are subjecting these traditional frameworks to scrutiny and attempting to separate the core ethical principles of Islam from the various historical adaptations that conservatives have enshrined as sacred.
The most sacred Yezidi pilgrimage site at Lalish runs the risk of being demolished.
Taking their cue from the sacred Rome Treaty’s reference to “ever closer union,” the European Commission’s theologians view every crisis as an opportunity to advance their federalist agenda.
We must be free to deny the existence of God, and to criticize the teachings of Jesus, Moses, Muhammad, and Buddha, as reported in texts that millions of people regard as sacred.
Police were accused of using excessive force to try to disperse members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their supporters, who argued that the project would contaminate water and damage sacred burial sites.
Among other things, the new technology was a boon to world religions, which suddenly had an efficient means of reproducing and disseminating sacred texts.
It is an absorbing odyssey of two nations with mutually exclusive claims on sacred lands and religious shrines that are central in the lives of millions of people worldwide.
This was an offense to Malaysia’s Hindus, who consider the cow a sacred animal.
Executives should make special efforts to break taboos, examine unchallenged assumptions, and question their businesses’ most sacred rules.
In the view of early-twentieth-century right-wing European nationalists, Anglo-American capitalism, controlled by Jews, undermined the sacred ties of blood and soil.
Christians believe that their views of right and wrong are sacred and universal, and that morality is a collective pursuit.
If sacred texts can no longer tells us the difference between good and evil, we will have to decide for ourselves.
Only a few years ago freedom of speech, free markets, the right to be left alone were treated as sacred.
Around the world, Vladimir Putin is viewed as a strong man whose word is sacred.
Meanwhile, having lost the entire Pacific, Japan’s Imperial Cabinet believed that no enemy could set foot upon the country’s sacred soil.
Known in the country as the Great Patriotic War, the effort to defend the country from German invasion remains sacred to many Russians.
Wrestlers wash their faces, mouths, and armpits before entering the dohyo (ring), on whose sacred sand neither shoes nor women may tread.
He spoke of the Holy Land as the source of Christianity and the home of sacred shrines of Islam, but intentionally ignored the Biblical roots of Judaism and Jerusalem as the home of Hebrew kings and prophets.
In recent years, Chinese-controlled companies have launched a mining frenzy on the plateau that not only damages landscapes sacred to Tibetans, but also is eroding Tibet’s ecology further – including by polluting its precious water.
It is clear, for example, that the sacred cows of public services and social benefits – among the most extensive in the world – will not remain untouched.
On the contrary, it proves the true depth of Islam’s sacred texts.
This led to a long, unbroken line of sacred and inviolable--but politically neutered--emperors that still provides the focus for Japanese nationalism.
With both the Karmapas in India, the Indian government has sought to maintain peace by barring the contenders from the sacred Rumtek monastery in the Indian Himalayan state of Sikkim.
This is a sacred rule of Chinese politics, one that is considered entirely legitimate.
Ultimately, however, we need to reconsider what for many is a sacred and immutable text: the UN Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees.
The base of world terrorism consists of daring fanatics who believe in a sacred, fiery destiny.
I, too, have taken aim at the discipline’s sacred cows – free markets and free trade – often enough.
Mohammed’s hijra is not narrated in the Koran, but the sacred book is structured around the event, divided into revelations he received in Mecca and those he received in Medina.
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