But they still break a long-standing taboo.
When Tina Brown brought him to The New Yorker, in 1992, to be its first staff photographer, she was rupturing a long-standing taboo against photography, and even those who loved his work might have had their doubts.
The official Soviet news agency Tass shattered a long-standing taboo Monday with a deadpan report about the landing of an unidentified flying object in a public park in the city of Voronezh, 300 miles southeast of Moscow.
His comments shattered a long-standing taboo in Japan, where lawmakers have intervened repeatedly to protect banks, especially the biggest ones, and their customers from the harshest effects of market forces, lest their troubles touch off a broader crisis.
"When Tina Brown brought him to The New Yorker, in 1992," Adam Gopnik wrote in his 2004 Postscript on Avedon, "she was rupturing a long-standing taboo against photography, and even those who loved his work must have had their doubts.
In 2006, depressed by the lack of progress on emissions, Paul Crutzen, an atmospheric researcher, broke a long-standing taboo among climate scientists by publicly pointing out that if humans have the power to heat the planet, then they also have the power to cool it down again.
Schwarzenegger was careful not to say too much – he stopped shorting of saying he was in favour of legalising cannabis now – but his words broke a long-standing taboo among both Republicans and Democrats who have previously felt obliged to say marijuana must remain illegal, and marijuana users and pushers be subject to criminal prosecution.
When the Greek Prime Minster, Alexis Tsipras, referred during the parliamentary debate to the existence of "Slavomacedonians" in Greece - at the time of World War Two - he was breaking a long-standing taboo.
He received a long standing ovation.
This confirms a long standing expectation.
Unfortunately, this is a long standing systematic problem.
