privileged sanctuary
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.56 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
6
Syllables
15
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An area that is granted special protection or immunity from military operations or attacks, such as a religious or cultural site or one belonging to another party than those involved in a conflict.
noun
A category of a commercial transaction in which one business or organization holds exclusive rights to operate.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see privileged, sanctuary.
Example Sentences
- "For example, Walter Lippman has written that "it is for all practical purposes impossible to win a guerrilla war if there is a privileged sanctuary behind the guerrilla fighters.""
- "The use of Manchuria as a "privileged sanctuary" by Communist aircraft led General MacArthur to request from the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Department of State a right of "hot pursuit" of enemy fighters two or three minutes of flying-time into Manchurian air space."
- "They have a privileged sanctuary. I can remember in the early days in western Nebraska we used to go out in roundups and round up jackrabbits and run them into a corral and kill them with clubs, hundreds and thousands of them, because there were so many of them. Then a bug came along and most of them died off. The last few years, because of the privileged sanctuary, which is the focal point, they are coming back, actually thousands of jackrabbits."
- "In its presentation, the Post Office has stated to this committee that the present restrictions on the size and weight of parcel post provide a privileged sanctuary for one company — REA Express."
- "We have seen that some 60 percent have legislation and if it be true that without legislation, McCarran-Ferguson has no application, the antitrust laws apply, where is the privileged sanctuary?"
- "But he has brought economic motivation into the privileged sanctuary of pastoral, courtly, and religious poetry."