They have fixed properties, and follow sacred rules.

But the most fundamental cause of the problem cuts to the heart of the country's sacred one-party rule: The farmers have no political power.

Kit had warned her there were a few really marginal scouts who routinely broke what he considered to be the sacred rules of scouting.

Or would it be a violation of your sacred run-around rules to tell me?

Why Contrary to all her previously sacred rules, she appeared suddenly in the middle of the room, looking wildly about her.

No, I meant a case of borderline sapience; something our sacred talk-and-build-a-fire rule won't cover.

She stared at him, shocked, and he realized he had just violated one of the nomad's most sacred rules.

And do you think even that sacred rule's as unbreakable as you've been told?

This because it broke their most sacred rule, never break the circuit during a call.