• And Mr Cameron has embraced New Labour's public-service reform agenda while indicating that Britain's universal, tax-funded health service will remain politically sacrosanct under a Tory government.

    ECONOMIST: British politics

  • But within minutes of the ban, YouTube fans realised they could still gain access to the site through other providers and just as in Thailand, a mood of indignation over insults to a sacrosanct figure gave way (among some citizens) to a sense of anger that the authorities had used sledgehammer tactics.

    ECONOMIST: Censorship and the internet

  • But he's also wiping out a sacrosanct clothing exemption the Mall of America uses to attract out-of-state shoppers.

    NPR: Do Tax Increases Kill Jobs? Minn. Soon To Find Out

  • He toured his district with a PowerPoint presentation and invited news crews to document how Republicans could challenge Democrats on a sacrosanct policy issue and live to tell about it.

    NEWYORKER: Fussbudget

  • Schools have long been a sacrosanct issue for Labour.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • Fundamental changes in culture, with workers wanting food delivered to their offices and homes, are also identified as reasons why traditional sit-down restaurants, historically a sacrosanct part of the French way of life, are losing popularity.

    FORBES: French Cuisine Suffers Fast Food as Its Newest Star

  • But they've all run up against a hard reality: Money woes caused by the economic collapse and rising costs mean Cooper can no longer afford the perk that has been held up as a sacrosanct part of the school's identity.

    WSJ: Famed free NYC college may start charging tuition

  • The moves have built momentum behind what could be his most dramatic and difficult reform modernizing and drawing foreign and private capital to the behemoth state oil company, a long sacrosanct but increasingly inefficient pillar of the Mexican economy.

    NPR: Mexico's President Gathers Power, Pushes Reform

  • But the Fraud (Trials Without A Jury) Bill died a death after being blocked in the House of Lords by peers who felt the right to a jury trial was sacrosanct.

    BBC: Old Bailey

  • What is the sacrosanct, iron-clad relationship where a country that deliberately kills people and boycotts -- and we aid and abet the boycott?

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • By putting Social Security into a locked box and declaring it sacrosanct, the budget deal may inadvertently make reform harder.

    ECONOMIST: Budget making

  • But although few today would demand that a CEO tolerate an unproductive factory, the notion that a CEO has a duty to maintain unproductive jobs is sacrosanct.

    FORBES: The Virtue Of Employee Layoffs

  • Historically, Americans generally enjoyed a stable dollar, relatively low taxes, sacrosanct contracts and respect for property.

    FORBES: Obama's Very Visible Hand Strangles Business

  • Even sacrosanct assumptions, such as the North's role as a vital strategic buffer for China, are being hotly debated in Beijing.

    CNN: How to stop the North Korea madness

  • In a free society, the rights of the individual are held sacrosanct, above any claim of even an overwhelming majority.

    FORBES: Anti-Immigration Rhetoric Frighteningly Reveals Education's Failure

  • The reasons are varied of course, but at its core the changes are coming about as a direct reaction to many of the things older generations held sacrosanct.

    FORBES: The Changing Nature of Risk

  • We can help fuel Iranian public opinion against him - at a time when the people have started to turn against their once-sacrosanct Supreme Leader.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • Up until this point in the European debt crisis, bond holders have been held sacrosanct as no one has wanted to even consider the far-reaching consequences of a sovereign default.

    FORBES: Another EU Bailout Rattles Markets

  • The NHS was thought up by a Welshman, brought to life by a Welshman and at some point between then and now it's become sacrosanct.

    BBC: What you think of reshaping the NHS

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