Example sentences for: sanctity

How can you use “sanctity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Charisma, Weber argued, provided the basis for an intensely personal form of authority, dramatically different from authority based both on the impersonal rule of law (the modern type) and on the sanctity of tradition (the oldest type).

  • But his positions on the sanctity of life on down are simply too extreme for the Republicans in 2000 and, therefore, way too extreme for the country, which is momentarily moderate.

  • The self-immolation of widows, known as sati — a widow becomes sati, a “virtuous woman,” by climbing onto her husband’s funeral pyre — has disappeared, but the monkey-god Hanuman and elephant-headed Ganesh are still idolized, and nobody will dare to deny the sanctity of the cow and all her products: milk, curd, butter, and dung, the last of which is used for fuel.

  • Nanak’s teachings were written in the Adi Granth, which acquired for Sikhs the sanctity of the Koran.

  • But after the requisite barb-trading with the White House, and a much-photographed round of negotiations in which the sanctity of Social Security and the need to invest in our nation's children are duly invoked, it would be a blessing if Congress would quietly pass a continuing resolution keeping spending more or less where it currently is, and then take to the hustings, where each party can blame the other for doing what's best for the country--nothing.


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