sacrosanct

Modifying Another Word

• not: A new paradigm is needed in which the market is accepted as useful but not sacrosanct.
• so: What is so sacrosanct about having fifteen chemists in each High Street?
• previously: Line items within the legislation do away with previously sacrosanct personal freedoms outlined within the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
• pretty: The Barnett formula, he says, is " pretty sacrosanct.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: Palermo became a city of a hundred mosques; Rome remained sacrosanct.
• consider: Everything you always DIDN'T want to know about fluoride For decades the message that fluoride safely prevents tooth decay has been considered sacrosanct.
• regard: Some rules that Paul regarded as sacrosanct we have now jettisoned.
• hold: Daryl O'Brien's piece of paradise on Brisbane's western outskirts holds sacrosanct the notion of scaling back rather than supersizing.
• become: It was a hideous nightmare, arguably the darkest hour of Western civilization, and as such has become sacrosanct, even untouchable.

Modifies a noun

• principle: That time is of the essence regarding charter hire payment is a sacrosanct principle in American maritime commercial practice.
• nature: The sacrosanct nature of such texts has been revered historically by religious artisans.