Phantom Films, a major Bollywood production house that made "Sacred Games" for Netflix, was suddenly dissolved on Saturday, with two of four partners publicly apologizing for mishandling an employee's complaint that she was sexually assaulted in 2015 by a third partner, Vikas Bahl.
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When the gale force winds of media coverage hit us yet again, many of us just push our roots deeper into the soil of this campus, made sacred by the college being a site on the Underground Railroad and by innumerable lives of faithfulness nurtured in this place.
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Taking a deity in procession is an old custom in India among many religions. The route that the deity takes is made sacred by its movement on that route. The sacred route is physically temporary it happens only while the procession is going on. Once the procession is over, people are expected to remember that the route is sacred.
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The CNP contains evidence of at least 1,000 years of human culture: native tribes made sacred use of the land, and the Fernandeño and Chumash people ground acorns and seeds in the sandstone outcroppings. Spanish missionaries processed limestone for use in plaster coatings of adobe buildings, and in the 19th century the land was used by Mexican cattle ranchers and Basque sheepherders.
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He was admitted early to the Chapter of the Cathedral of Strasbourg. He provided the abbeys of the Gard in the diocese of Amiens (1715), then of Gorge in that of Metz (1730). He became Archbishop of Reims on June 2, 1722, was confirmed on July 6, 1722 and made sacred on August 23, 1722. Gueme anointed Louis XV at his coronation in Reims on 25 October of the same year.
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Hentoff grew up attending an Orthodox synagogue in Boston. He recalled that as a youth, he would travel around the city with his father during the High Holidays to listen to various cantors and compare notes on their performances. He said cantors made "sacred texts compellingly clear to the heart," and he collected their recordings.Nat Hentoff, "The Soul Music of the Synagogue," The Wall Street Journal, August 24, 1985.
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Sarabel Möller (born 1975) is a Mexican painter, sculptor, and designer, born in Mexico City. Daughter of the recognized Mexican painter, graphic and digital artist Gustavo Möller. In 1988 she studied Byzantine painting in The Eccole Saggese et Art Chretien in France and in 1989 she studied sculpture with the recognized Italian art master Mario Pacchioli in Florence, Italy. She is recognized for her numerous antique technique made sacred paintings and her bronze sculptures and paintings of distinguished Mexican personalities.
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As an Islamic state, Pakistan follows Islamic laws. The Qur'an 6:151 states “…take not life, which God has made sacred, except by way of justice and law. Thus, does He command you, so that you may learn wisdom” This scripture of the Qur'an, while it grants the right to life, also permits individuals' lives be taken only "by way of justice and law." Many Muslims believe that capital punishment is a severe sentence that may be instructed by a court for crimes of sufficient severity.
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This royal power would be exercised by and with the advice and consent of the People's Assembly, the State Council (the cabinet), and the courts. However, the monarchy lacked any say in the composition of any of the branches of government and the royal veto could still be overruled. The monarchy was also made "sacred and inviolable", in contrast to the temporary charter. After the new constitution was adopted, a new 20-member cabinet was formed; 10 of whom came from the People's Party.
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The word mamori (守り) means protection, with omamori being the sonkeigo (honorific) form of the word. Originally made from paper or wood, modern amulets are small items usually kept inside a brocade bag and may contain a prayer, religious inscription of invocation. Omamori are available at both Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples with few exceptions and are available for sale, regardless of one's religious affiliation. Omamori are then made sacred through the use of ritual, and are said to contain busshin (spiritual offshoots) in a Shinto context or kesshin (manifestations) in a Buddhist context.
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The taga is a kind of thread considered to be made sacred through the various rituals on the event of the puja. The puja at Asansol also constitutes the performance of Dandi. While performing this act first the devotees have to take a holy bath, to cleanse of sin and purify themselves. Then from the place of holy bath to the place of worship, the devotees repeatedly prostrate before the goddess by lying down their full body on the ground with their arms on top and cover the full distance without walking.
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Venus is always brighter than the brightest stars outside the Solar System, as can be seen here over the Pacific Ocean Venus, as one of the brightest objects in the sky, has been known since prehistoric times and has been a major fixture in human culture for as long as records have existed. As such, it has a prominent position in human culture, religion, and myth. It has been made sacred to gods of many cultures, and has been a prime inspiration for writers and poets as the morning star and evening star.
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Mount Tongariro is in the Tongariro National Park, New Zealand's first national park and one of the earliest in the world. It was set aside (literally "made sacred") in 1887 by Te Heuheu Tukino IV (Horonuku), paramount chief of the Māori Ngati Tuwharetoa iwi and made a national park in order to preserve its natural beauty. The park also includes the peaks of Ngauruhoe and Ruapehu, both of which lie to the southwest of Tongariro. The national park is a dual World Heritage Site for its outstanding natural and intangible cultural values.
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It does not matter what sum the money is; the > woman will never refuse, for that would be a sin, the money being by this > act made sacred. So she follows the first man who casts it and rejects no > one. After their intercourse, having discharged her sacred duty to the > goddess, she goes away to her home; and thereafter there is no bribe however > great that will get her. So then the women that are fair and tall are soon > free to depart, but the uncomely have long to wait because they cannot > fulfil the law; for some of them remain for three years, or four.
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Archaeological survey report Annual Report of the Archaeological Department, Southern Circle, Madras (1903) of 1903 describe it as: Ramateertham is one of the places made sacred by a traditional connection with Rama. The temple and village at the base of a chain of hills of solid rock on which are some perennial springs of water, and various places each in a way associated with the name of Rama. The Jains have also had a residence here, their remains consisting chiefly of natural caves with slab sculptures set in them, and some small ruined brick temples. It is one of the few places in this direction where Jaina remains exist.
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As one of the brightest objects in the sky, Venus has been a major fixture in human culture for as long as records have existed. It has been made sacred to gods of many cultures, and has been a prime inspiration for writers and poets as the "morning star" and "evening star". Venus was the first planet to have its motions plotted across the sky, as early as the second millennium BC. Due to its proximity to Earth, Venus has been a prime target for early interplanetary exploration. It was the first planet beyond Earth visited by a spacecraft (Mariner 2 in 1962), and the first to be successfully landed on (by Venera 7 in 1970).
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Like the better-known Nazca Lines (which differ from the Sajama Lines in that some of the Nazca are depictions of animals) neither the purpose of these lines, nor how the makers achieved such precision, are completely understood. Scholars at the University of Pennsylvania describe: > While many of these sacred lines extend as far as ten or twenty kilometers > (and perhaps further), they all seem to maintain a remarkable straightness > despite rugged topography and natural obstacles. The sheer number and length > of these lines is often difficult to perceive from ground level, but from > the air or hilltop vantage points, they are stunning. Many believe that the lines were originally used by indigenous people when they made sacred pilgrimages.
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The line of mountains where Taktsang is located is shaped like a black snake with its head in the middle of the Paro valley. On the nose of this snake the Drubthob constructed Jangtsa Dumtseg Lhakhang, a stupa- shaped temple and pronounced that all diseases caused by evil spirits residing under the ground were suppressed and that the valley would be free from leprosy. Tachog Lhakhang established by Thangtong Gyalpo Arriving at a place called Phurdo, he saw a five-coloured rainbow upon which were seated Buddha Amitabha, Avalokitesvara and Padmasambhava and declared that the place was as sacred as Potala mountain. At Tamchogang, at the foot of the Phurdo mountains, he established Tamchog Lhakhang temple and made sacred representations of the Buddha's body, speech and mind.
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Islamic law states "Do not kill a soul which Allah has made sacred except through the process of due law," which means that the death penalty is allowed in certain cases where the law says it is necessary. The Quran explicitly states that the taking of a life results in the taking of ones own. According to the Quran, the death penalty is recognized as a necessary form of punishment for some "Hudud" crimes in Islam because it is believed that these acts go directly against the word of god and are seen as a threat to society. However, in pre- modern Islam, capital punishments for these crimes were rarely enforced because the evidentiary standards were so high as to make convictions more difficult to obtain.
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As Charles Kimball, the University of Oklahoma's Director of Religious Studies, pointed out that Islam "clearly prohibits suicide" by citing "the hadith materials, which are the authoritative sayings and actions of the prophet, Muhammad, includes many unambiguous statements about suicide: one who 'throws himself off a mountain' or 'drinks poison' or 'kills himself with a sharp instrument' will be in the fire of Hell. Suicide is not allowed even to those in extreme conditions such as painful illness or a serious wound". Other Islamic groups such as the European Council for Fatwa and Research cite the Quran'ic verse Al-An'am 6:151 as a prohibition against suicide: "And take not life, which Allah has made sacred, except by way of justice and law"."Euthanasia: Types and Rulings" Dr. Hassan Ali El-Najjar says that the hadith unambiguously forbid suicide.
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