Meaning of privileged sanctuary | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
2. A refuge where certain species are granted a protected status and cannot be killed.
3. A category of a commercial transaction in which one business or organization holds exclusive rights to operate.
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see privileged, sanctuary.

Examples

“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.”

“In a case involving the comparatively very mild threat of extraterritorial trademark infringement, the Court declared, "[W]e do not think that petitioner by so simple a device [as selling in Mexico] can evade teh thrust of the tlaws of the United States in a privileged sanctuary beyone our borders."”

“Westminster was the most highly privileged sanctuary in England and it offered permanent protection from prosecution at common law as well as exemptions from taxes and trading regulations.”

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