That comes from hard work, and it definitely comes from upholding the sacred principle of relegation, the prospect of which galvanises teams.

They violate the sacred principle of never, in any circumstances, questioning the umpire.

Choice was elevated to a sacred principle.

This, just when everything seemed grey and the most sacred principles - those of democracy, freedom and free enterprise - had lost all meaning.

Holy books - sacred scripture - always need interpreters.

It can be done alone or in a group and with or without the aid of sacred scripture.

He was known for his generous nature, wisdom and his knowledge of sacred scripture.

Relevant and contextual studies in sacred scripture has also seen a revival recently.

Is it because of the sacred scriptures?

Their most sacred shrine embodies both.

To ride the flume, families will board boats from the tiger temple, pass through swirling lights in a sacred shrine before plunging down a 50ft waterfall.

Each dojang has a main room called the sung-jun sacred shrine, which contains altars for celestial and terrestrial spirits.

A number of religious festivals are held here, and many sacred shrines are located on the perimeter.

When he took power, he performed the sacred rites and restored the sacred shrines.

So what do we talk about in this sacred space?

It gives sacred space to the tears that otherwise would have nowhere to go.

He didn't seem to know his proper place was not here in a sacred space with spiritual teachers, but home, safely home, with them.

It may not have been free of secular sentimentalism, but it was also sacred space.

The pilgrim left a grey-toned world to enter a sacred space filled with glittering jewel-like colour in glass, painted tombs and stone.

He said it was a sacred symbol of his faith.

I reckon he was worried about showing disrespect if he allowed the sacred symbol to flutter into his lap.

This sacred symbol represents ultimate peace and harmony.

This champaka tree, a sacred symbol to soliga tribal people, symbolises the tribal relation with nature.

On her head she wore a battered straw hat; on her slender wrists were bracelets engraved with sacred symbols.

I thought it was sacred text and not for the likes of me.

But it also becomes 'scripture': a sacred text.

Some say that its 45 mysterious symbols are the words of a 4,000-year-old poem, or perhaps a sacred text.

That's most viewers who don't feel a strong attachment to the text, and some of the ones who do but totally separate films from the sacred text.

He holds a sacred text and sometimes even a rosary.

He explained that he knew a sacred tree where he would bury the money and the photo.

Unfortunately, the corporation wants a strange floating metal that lies beneath the aliens' sacred tree.

Heather asks him how he knows about the sacred tree, but he makes evasive answers.

The arch rests on two columns that bear delicately carved patterns showing the tree of life or the sacred tree.

In this case, the nails are driven directly into the branches of the sacred tree.

First, a serious crime has been committed, and the embezzler has breached a sacred trust.

Renewal comes with a base of sound principles and sacred trust.

For conservatives, defence must surely be a sacred trust.

You see marriage as a sacred trust - a lifelong commitment requiring responsibility and self- discipline.

A sacred trust had been violated.

For 30 years after the war, those achievements remained a secret protected by an almost sacred vow of silence.

He took a sacred vow not to raise taxes (the other clause in the credo) or run a deficit.

Divorce was granted only because one party to the marriage had violated a sacred vow to the innocent spouse.

They set about praying and making sacred vows to lead virtuous lives in exchange for safekeeping from the glacier.

To feel that you belong to somebody, to commit, to make those special, sacred vows in church that have moved people to tears for centuries.