Examples of anathema

• Any attempt to conceal states within the laws would introduce an element of teleology into physics, which is considered anathema by most scientists.

• Segregation in age-specific communities (hostels and nursing homes) and in age-specific organisations is seen as anathema to such integration.

• Officers who wished to leave the southern social order undisturbed were anathema because they placed the nation, not just the party, at risk.

• The resultant individualism spawned by the new economy is considered by these countries to be an anathema.

• They regard their failure to discharge those obligations as anathema.

• Doctors, who are committed to equal concern about each of their patients, resist social discrimination as anathema to the profession.

• This music has a rage that might be thought anathema to the composer.

• The party elite regarded this new populist style and the consequent political awakening of the urban working class as anathema.