Our country has substantial number of disabled people who have excelled in various walks of life, overcoming poverty and social taboos. |
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Still, I'm not sure that merely transgressing social boundaries or taboos makes him any kind of trickster. |
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Breaking cultural taboos in this attempt to make money does not seem to matter. |
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The taboos regulating the sight of bare flesh are further determined by wider cultural considerations. |
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Their talk seemingly was of nulla-nullas, didgeridoos, boomerangs, pointing the bone, kadaitcha shoes, and tribal taboos. |
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Cultural taboos surrounding sexuality and pregnancy also contribute to the low rates of health service access. |
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There are no food taboos, although Buddhist monks may practice vegetarianism and observe other food taboos. |
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Anger is one of those emotions whose expression is sometimes subject to taboos, so people can grow up unable to recognize it. |
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But at any rate, what taboos will cinema breach after the next twenty-five years, the next fifty? |
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But as taboos about the body gradually lifted and the human sciences advanced, the knowledge of nervousness slowly changed. |
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Most importantly to feminism, do not support commercial manufacturers who use menstrual taboos to help sell their products. |
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The cabaret performers and their audiences shared a more or less hidden opposition to social taboos and censorship. |
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The novel breaks down the taboos and barriers against openly discussing incest and sexual abuse. |
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But in a subtle way, these non-rational taboos could discredit and pre-empt the application of rational criteria in other spheres. |
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Meat, more than any other food, is hedged around with taboos and notions of uncleanliness. |
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Young people of my generation had no time for Larkin's irony and simply dismissed traditional sexual morality as a clutter of meaningless taboos. |
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They challenged taboos and opened doors for future women to share their own stories. |
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Accurate statistics are hard to come by, especially in a country where social taboos and threats keep many victims silent. |
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We were about to help celebrate the falling of one of the last, and among the most storied, comestible taboos in our European culture. |
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The Kinsey report had blown taboos out of the water and the hippy movement made free love a political statement. |
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The Communist Party decided to dramatise its rather unique willingness to challenge taboos. |
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A close cousin to humour as a political battering ram is comedy designed to break taboos. |
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There were also clan-specific food taboos on particular birds and wild animals. |
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Yet for all their attempts to break taboos, what makes Americans most uncomfortable is the portrayal of intimacy between men. |
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The strategy broke powerful religious taboos against suicide and the murder of innocents. |
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The thrill is in breaking taboos, and that is why taboos are fun to have around. |
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Our fearless comedians, who strive every year to find new taboos to breach, are scared of breaching the only one that matters today. |
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They have both agreed to come and tell their personal stories in the hope of breaking down some of the taboos that surround mental health. |
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Through mythology, one is able to violate the taboos of society without the guilt. |
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I have found that one way of breaking down taboos, is to demystify the subject and to make it more easy to remember. |
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The objective is to break the taboos surrounding disabled children and to better integrate them into existing services such as schools. |
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That's why we have loose-lipped friends whose taboos don't overlap with ours. |
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Sensitively written, this story once again successfully challenged still existing taboos in children's literature and was widely praised. |
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His looks are laced with humour, smashing taboos and flying in the face of social convention. |
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Is it possible and desirable for civil society to start breaking taboos and talk about the existence of uncomfortable social conventions? |
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When women miscarried, they used to keep it a secret because of the taboos they had to follow. |
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Traditional management strategy is to apply taboos to sites to control visitors, but declaration and consequent tourism flout the taboos. |
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We must broach the topic without any taboos so that little by little we in Belgium can fix our position in the European debate. |
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Imposing taboos on expressing certain emotions leads to incongruity between emotions and behaviour. |
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Many people experience psychosocial problems after a crisis or violence yet taboos silence them from speaking about their traumas. |
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Evoking the universality of fairy-tale, her narratives confront viewers with their own drives, taboos and anxieties. |
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We want to fling our doors and windows wide open to let in ideas, without any bias, without any taboos and without any exclusivity. |
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For thrill-seekers, check out our labyrinths and catacombs, which are arranged to offer you the utmost pleasure and to free you of any taboos. |
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Faith, certainty, dogmas, anathemas, prayers, prohibitions, orders, taboos, tyrannies, wars and glories overwhelmed the order of things. |
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The group then spent four years perfecting this courageous film which examines many of today's social taboos and discontents. |
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We talked about different subjects without taboos, like postcolonialism and exchange between cultures. |
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The next drafts will notably develop a few other prejudices and taboos, and the presented causes and verities. |
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However, broaching this issue effectively would require ridding it of all taboos. |
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Even in today's societies there are many different weaning practices dependent upon history, religious taboos, and the availability of nourishing foods suitable for infants. |
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That the Sikh novitiates include a sizable number of Muslims is shown by inclusion in this clause of the taboos as to the sanctity of graves, shirni, etc. |
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This book challenges our assumptions, debunks taboos, and lifts the lid on the most closely guarded secret on the planet. |
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Afterwards, the Austrian chancellor said that I broke all the taboos. |
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Especially when we are dealing with social taboos around what we can be open about, we may feel intimidated or even ashamed. |
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In each of these cases, everyone knows the taboos that certain things can't be discussed and their very undiscussibility is undiscussible. |
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Conservatives guard their own taboos that blinker the gaze and button the lip. |
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It should not be forgotten that arms control also builds social norms and taboos about weapon use. |
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What drove him to shatter taboos and invite hatred for his conclusions? |
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All of these are thought to be dependent on the ability to observe taboos. |
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And this is also Planet Fashion, where shock reigns supreme and where taboos are challenged in imagery. |
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Their brandishing of totems, their busting of taboos is real world stuff, not symbolic. |
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When you think about it, every private school has its odd customs, traditions, and taboos. |
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The main perpetrators are often people who take advantage of being in another country to ignore the social taboos which would normally govern their behaviour. |
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Tragically, by 1991 he was dying of AIDS, the disease that she had worked so hard to 'dedemonise' in the light of the public taboos against it. |
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Social taboos against men's interest in clothing that first appeared in the 19th century have blinded us to the enduring male enthusiasm for fashionable apparel. |
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We are tackling every issue with Beijing and doing so without any taboos. |
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We approach Aboriginal issues with a willingness to break taboos and confront the uncomfortable truth of our relationship with Aboriginal Canadians. |
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One of those universal moments when curiosity and the lure of the unknown prove so powerful as to sweep aside origins and customs and break through the boundaries of cultural taboos and shyness. |
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Over time, groups that marry out had an advantage over those that did not, so eventually all groups developed incest taboos. |
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For all the powerful taboos around the drug, it's also worth pointing out that if they die in hospital, most people reading this article will end their lives – just like the street junkies of Paris – on heroin. |
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It is also wrong to establish taboos and say that the subject of coal and the development of clean-coal technology or the subject of nuclear power are off limits and that the only answer is renewable energy. |
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Zumanity, the sensual side of Cirque du Soleil, presents a seductive, temptation-filled dimension of reality where jests and taboos titillate curiosity. |
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These problems should be approached by a proper analysis, comprehension, compassion and a will to find the best solution rather than by prejudices and taboos. |
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I understand there may be some taboos and some prudishness. |
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Other myths explain how a society's customs, institutions and taboos were established and sanctified. |
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There are essentially no taboos against depicting a god, or other religious figures, in a representational fashion. |
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Any display which works to break health taboos must be good, and I found the plantation of dicksonias, cycads, equisetum and ferns exhilarating. |
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In many parts of the world talking about sexuality requires breaking strong social and cultural taboos, and talking about sexualities beyond heterosexuality is doubly so. |
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But I fail to see any value in the religious habit of coercing other people to observe your irrational taboos, and still less in having the government make exceptions to help religious people do so. |
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We have also succeeded in shaking up long-held ancestral beliefs and social taboos, making it possible to provide better treatment for all diseases in Benin. |
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Hence, we have particularly focused on Shona and Venda taboos to examine the underlying indigenous aspects of African philosophy. |
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The authorities attitude towards the artists having loosened up, even though censorship still exists, there is less need of shocking or shaking taboos. |
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Once certain truths and facts are made known and certain taboos are broken, this does have a profound effect in terms of emboldening people to ask for change. |
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But if and when such confirmation comes, it will break one of physics's greatest taboos, the assumption that physical laws are the same everywhere and everywhen. |
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Hadil Ghoneim, whose YA novel A Year in Qenawas was on this year's Etisalat shortlist, fears that YA authors' deference to taboos may be holding their books back. |
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But instead we must break the silence and shatter taboos. |
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However, the young are breaking certain tribal and religious taboos relating to marriage and intermarriage between young people from different communities is becoming increasingly common. |
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Because they are of extreme value as the repository of knowledge, there are cultural taboos against sacrificing elders. |
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His works are highly allusive, never shying from taboos, embodying an aesthetic that has inspired such directors as Bob Wilson, Anatoli Vassiliev and Gilles Maheu. |
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It was this pride that drove the Europeans of the Renaissance to disobey, to innovate, to transgress religious taboos, that encouraged them to cross geographical as well as cultural boundaries. |
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These taboos have been created by misunderstanding, miseducation, and misinterpretation of women's menstruation as shamefulness and unclean. |
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The most illustrious example of her community-based approach is her ongoing work to build public toilet facilities in local communities, improving hygiene and overcoming longstanding taboos. |
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The Assembly has made its mark by expressing itself forcefully on Darfur in Vienna, by scorning taboos to apportion blame and by proposing a road map designed to end the crisis. |
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When taboos disappear in a puff of red smoke to make space not only for felines and ghosts, but ruthless criminals, unsightly wounds and lethal vermillion cocktails? |
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Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley transgressed all social taboos by performing acts of absurd, provocative, pornographic, scatological, or shocking nature. |
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Such proscriptions and taboos for the private life of the king are especially evident in Africa but also occur in Polynesia and Micronesia, East Asia, and the ancient Middle East. |
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Rich and interesting tradition of poverty and unemployment studies of the interwar period was discontinued during the People's Republic of Poland era, when the poverty became one of the ideological and political taboos. |
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The Indonesia traditional houses are at the centre of a web of customs, social relations, traditional laws, taboos, myths and religions that bind the villagers together. |
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Throughout the 1920s, Stopes and other feminist pioneers, including Dora Russell and Stella Browne, played a major role in breaking down taboos about sex. |
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He will release his pent-up rage and fear no evil, for his genius is with him, and his daimon bids him violate all the taboos of the literary marketplace. |
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Consideration for ancestors is also demonstrated through adherence to fady, taboos that are respected during and after the lifetime of the person who establishes them. |
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Astrology was also a vital part to understanding the natural and spiritual worlds and became an important cultural means to enforce social taboos and customs. |
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