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The criminal justice system’s presumption of innocence without proof of guilt should remain sancrosanct, but it’s not supposed to encourage lying.
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America was founded on the belief that speech is sancrosanct.
Jeanine Molloff: Prosecuting WikiLeaks, Assange, and Free Speech v. Eric Holder and a New Sedition Act Jeanine Molloff 2010
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It is always the individual human light that is sancrosanct, not the event.
If Anne Frank lived Roger Sutton 2007
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The ability for a client to be honest and forthright to their counsel, particularly where that counsel is the only barrier between the client and the abuse of the power of the state is sancrosanct, and has, throughout our Canadian and American for that matter judicial history, been viewed as inviolate.
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Three, your argument makes no sense unless a person thinks Sarah Palin must be sancrosanct.
"Why is Obama so vapid and hesitant and gutless? Why, to put it another way, does he risk going into political history as a dusky Dukakis?" Ann Althouse 2008
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And the privacy of those devices should be sancrosanct.
Who’s Snooping on You at Work? - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Back in my days as a Legislative candidate, it was explained in no uncertain terms that while the caucus might tolerate a member going off-reservation on any number of issues, there were two votes that were considered sancrosanct.
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Just because he is a Democrat with pretty filthy baggage, I might add does that make him sancrosanct?
Think Progress » Fox News Anchor Calls Ted Kennedy A ‘Hostile Enemy Right Here On The Home Front’ 2007
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Just because he is a Democrat with pretty filthy baggage, I might add does that make him sancrosanct?
Think Progress » Fox News Anchor Calls Ted Kennedy A ‘Hostile Enemy Right Here On The Home Front’ 2007
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Back in my days as a Legislative candidate, it was explained in no uncertain terms that while the caucus might tolerate a member going off-reservation on any number of issues, there were two votes that were considered sancrosanct.
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