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Now, I know many people in this room and around the world will think, "Well actually, this is hard to grasp," because private capitalism and liberal democracy are held sacrosanct.
Before the war, you treated national sovereignty as so sacrosanct that you weren't even willing to join the League of Nations.
I do, but I also start to talk about some of the other things I got wrong; some of the other notions of work that I've just been assuming are sacrosanct, and they're not.
And most countries’ politics have proverbial “third rail” issues – policies or programs (say, state pensions) that are so sacrosanct that any policymaker who touches them faces instant political death.
They complain bitterly about regulators’ “interference” with the free market, property rights, and the sacrosanct ideal of home ownership.
But when the Hungarian and Polish governments explicitly renounce fundamental EU principles, non-interference suddenly became sacrosanct.
The BOJ, by demonstrating that aggressive money creation is a legitimate approach to fighting deflation, has broken previously sacrosanct conventions.
Contracts are sacrosanct.
But it is also true that the old order, taken as sacrosanct, hampered elites’ capacity to address such problems, even if they tried.
In response, the government has urged managers to publish their incomes and abolished the bank secrecy laws that were once considered sacrosanct.
But the Vietnamese or Chinese roads are unacceptable in Latin America, which has made huge progress in transforming advances in democracy and respect for human rights into a regional legal order that goes beyond national sovereignty or the sacrosanct principle of non-intervention.
Thus clear principles are needed, as neither self-determination nor the inviolability of national borders can be treated as sacrosanct in every case.
Because of this, countries that consider their domestic realities as sacrosanct find themselves unable to assimilate change or foresee its direction.
In fact, an unwritten but sacrosanct convention ensures that the Speaker almost never uses the position’s authority to suspend or expel errant members, except when there is a consensus between the government and the opposition to do so – which of course rarely occurs.
The one rule of the eurozone that is meant to be sacrosanct is the irrevocability of membership.
As a general principle of foreign policy, China believes that national borders are sacrosanct.
There is nothing sacrosanct about culture anyway.
The headline consumer-price index (CPI) is near zero, and “core” or underlying inflation – the Fed’s favorite indicator – remains significantly below the seemingly sacrosanct 2% target.
Even in Britain, where the sovereignty of parliament was until recently sacrosanct, and the separation of powers underdeveloped, a Supreme Court will now be created to scrutinize political decisions on the basis of the European Convention of Human Rights.
One view is that the state is sacrosanct: the EU has to intervene and help any errant member to get back on its feet.
In an era when decolonization continues, with the principle of self-determination considered sacrosanct from Bosnia to Chechnya, and from the Baltics to the Palestinians -- it is indeed incredible that six million people were transferred from one set of rulers to another like mere chattel.
Once sacrosanct accounting principles have been amended at Wall Street’s behest in order to allow banks to report essentially whatever they want.
But, until now, the “right” to work at home was sacrosanct at Yahoo!, something that an employee’s manager could not overrule.
An open society does not treat prevailing arrangements as sacrosanct; it allows for alternatives when those arrangements fail.
Yet we live in an era when political boundaries, not the lives of nomadic pastoralists, are sacrosanct.
The “primacy of the papacy” – a term Catholic theologians use when talking with their Protestant counterparts – remains sacrosanct.
Or he could have adopted a less aggressive strategy: Concede from the start the German principle that debts are sacrosanct and then show that austerity could be eased without any reduction in the face value of Greek debt.
There is nothing sacrosanct in the continued existence of multi-ethnic and multi-religious states if their constitutive groups do not wish to live together.
Such a concerted action must go beyond the sacrosanct effort of providing the old women who practice female genital mutilation with another job or in finding symbolic or ritualistic substitutes to the act of cutting off a woman's clitoris.
Since the end of the Cold War, the debate over international military action has pitted powerful, interventionist Western powers against weaker countries, like Russia and China, whose leaders argued that national sovereignty is sacrosanct and inviolable.