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That is why Charlie Hebdo’s mockery of the sacred beliefs of minorities (Jews, Muslims, and gays alike) is not an act of bravery.
This right to a private life, including extramarital affairs, has always been a sacred cow of French politics.
The Promise of Fiscal MoneyATHENS – Western capitalism has few sacred cows left.
Already, copper mine tailings are polluting waters in a Himalayan region sacred to Tibetans, which they call Pemako (“Hidden Lotus Land”), where the world’s highest-altitude major river, the Brahmaputra (Yarlung Tsangpo to Tibetans), curves around the Himalayas before entering India.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become increasingly overshadowed and orchestrated on both sides by extreme and uncompromising religious groups that view their political mandate as holy and sacred.
Even though the Pentagon itself wanted to close many of them and use the money elsewhere, no measure could be gotten through the Congress, because military bases qualify as "pork" - the favors for their constituents that help congressmen get re-elected -- and, according to old and sacred informal rules, no congressman will ever vote against pork in a colleague's district.
But, while Ball’s realistic position on the Israel-Palestine conflict is not uncommon among US State Department officials, it has remained off-limits for America’s political establishment, which has long upheld an almost sacred consensus on Israel – until now.
One of the current generation of pessimists’ sacred texts, The Limits to Growth, influences the environmental movement to this day.
Netanyahu’s Jerusalem policy is dangerous, but so is the Palestinian Authority’s game over their sacred mosques – Al Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock – on the Temple Mount.
Make the UN Stand for FreedomFor Sweden, my homeland, the United Nations is a sacred cow.
More needs to be done on the issue of IP rights – the sacred cow of the pharmaceutical industry.
In this respect, the oligarchs and their political placemen who insist that their right to stolen property is sacred make the same crude claim as the regime that we overthrew: that they have an indefeasible right to the exercise of power.
A Muslim man was beaten to death by a mob in a small town an hour from New Delhi in response to rumors that he had slaughtered and eaten a cow, sacred to Hindus.
It cannot be described as “fundamentalism,” for Hinduism is a religion singularly devoid of fundamentals: it lacks a single sacred book, a single version of divinity, and even the equivalent of a Sabbath day.
Over the long term, however, US policymakers must make steady progress in restoring confidence in the nation’s fiscal health by cutting politically sacred programs like social security, Medicare, and defense.
In each case, they must decide whether to confront or endorse the sacred cows of nationalist and Islamist ideology.
In a conversation he protested: “No, the Church is not civil society, it is sacred society.”
Nothing was sacred to Clodius.
They take their direction from corporate bureaucrats in waging war against the indigenous people, whose sacred land is sited on vast reserves of “unobtainium,” which the corporation wishes to secure at all costs.
When the villain, the American military leader of the attack, plans to bomb flat the indigenous people’s sacred tree, he boasts that he will blow such a massive hole in their “racial memory” that they won’t come “within a thousand clicks” of the place again.
They will never leave the Hometree [their sacred land].
No Muslim, it seems, is prepared to forget that Jerusalem is home to the Al-Aqsa mosque, the third most sacred site in Islam.
But sometimes even sacred cows need to be slaughtered.
Most Americans have forgotten this episode, as collective amnesia has papered over an event that contradicts the image of a country where the rule of law prevails and contracts are sacred.
According to Dorothy Nelkin and Susan Lindee, it has become a sacred entity – the modern equivalent of the Christian soul, an individual’s essence.
And he was not unique: behind every great empire has been a great philosopher or historian whose worldview imbued the imperial drive with legitimacy and even sacred significance.
It is only in our ability to share our sorrows, and our humanity, that any of us can stand before the sacred dead of Hiroshima.
An election expresses the hopes, promises, commitments, and compromises that underpin the sacred compact between the government and the governed.
Yigal Amir thought he was defending Israel against a Prime Minister willing to surrender sacred land to the enemy when he assassinated Yitzak Rabin later in the same year.
What role should the secular and the sacred play in the European Union's fundamental law?
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