anathema

Except in a default, they avoid any fiscal transfer of the kind that would be anathema to the euro zone.

"Up you get, young lady, " said the angel, hauling Anathema out of the bracken.

Today, this second option is anathema as the "inflation fundamentalists" will have none of it.

On March 31st Mr Obama prepared to unveil a plan, anathema to greens, to open millions of acres of coastal waters to offshore oil drilling.

That America still refuses this right to its gay population is a complete anathema to me.

He has acknowledged what was previously anathema: the existence of legitimate internal "currents" within the movement.

But Europe is not a state and any hint of a transfer union is anathema to Germany and others.

Meanwhile, anything that smacks of curbing domestic consumption in favour of international goals is anathema to the White House.

In an English corpus database I use I found that 10% of usage was an anathema.

The Fortwo is such anathema to American automotive culture that it might as well come wearing a beret.

As Tudor Jones himself observed, most financial operators consider price limits to be anathema to modern free markets.

Iraq's constitution is decentralising enough to please Shia and Kurdish voters, but anathema to the once-dominant Sunni Muslims.

If, however, you came from a traditional software background, this type of code-as-you-go attitude is anathema.

It would also be anathema to the African Union's principled stand against military coups.

To local residents, schooled by almost a century of strict zoning to believe that bedrooms must be separated from shops, it is anathema.

China's family planning practices are anathema to the abortion-obsessed religious right in the United States.

So back there at first anathema was a good thing. It was something worshiped or venerated and offered to the gods.

Early love has an obsessive quality to it that's anathema to the year-after-year-ness of married life.

So anathema, that had been good, started to be bad.

Naturally, these views are anathema to modern Austrians in the tradition of Murray Rothbard, who think the central bank should be abolished.

For short-term investors, missing a rally is anathema, particularly the sharpest one since the market started to sink in late 2007.

Nonetheless, the future of Cuba remains in the hands of an aging set of leaders for whom a true political opening remains anathema.

But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema.

The deal agreed upon at Kyoto, which required developed countries to bind themselves internationally to numerical targets, was anathema.

American concepts of intellectual property don't translate readily to students from a country where individualism is anathema.

Government -run health care is still anathema to many Americans .

For Germany, especially, the idea of a "transfer union" is anathema.

To put under a ban or an anathema; excommunicate.

That, naturally, is anathema to many Democrats, who anyway feel that the cutting has already gone far enough.

Indeed, uncertainty, while anathema to investors in equities, is manna from heaven to investors in bullion.

that there were two clauses in the Nicene Anathema which required explanation.

Compromise is anathema to the virulently anti-tax Tea Party wing of the Republican Party.

A 2007 OED draft addition to the entry on anathema gives as the current definition "loathsome" and "repugnant. "

Should I be saying "kicking the dog is an anathema" or "kicking the dog is anathema" ?

These are anathema to the other Palestinian factions, which do not want to be dragged into the West's war with al-Qaeda.

A "transfer union" is still anathema to Germany.

Racial prejudice is (an) anathema to me.

As a word anathema is one that I've never fully taken onboard.

This is anathema to the design process, where designers must understand all the different patterns of behavior a product must address.

The idea that we might ration health care to seniors (or anyone else) is political anathema.

Anathema was still staring at her bicycle.

The idea of raising tax rates is clearly going to remain anathema.

Inflation is anathema to the bond market because it erodes the purchasing power of income from fixed-income securities.

Campbell summed up by saying that nutrition is holistic, a concept which is "anathema" to most scientists' method.

To the speaker, this was anathema.

As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema.

"We give our people responsibility and initiative, " he says. "That's anathema to them. "

His misbehavior brought upon him his father's anathema.

Skiing off-piste has long been anathema to those who run Japan's ski industry.

"You can drop me off here, " said Anathema, from the back seat.

Going grey gracefully is anathema for many women.

That 'reprofiling' of Greek bonds is anathema to the ECB.

But for many people in Serbia the idea of Kosovo slipping formally away into independent statehood remains an anathema.

Tax rises are anathema.

The designs the Chinese adapted to conform to Japanese tastes were anathema to their own.

Loss of face is anathema in the Middle Kingdom.

I recognize that a VAT is anathema to many conservatives because it gives the government an added claim on revenues.

I mean is it really anathema or is it an athema?

absolute anathema to most Republican lawmakers