Sentence examples for a taboo on using from inspiring English sources

In other parts of Europe, where the Vikings were feared and hated, a taboo on using spinning wheels during solstices lasted well into the 20th century.

If there is no global response to this breaching of a universal taboo on using poison gas, the world will be a much more dangerous place.

With his Afghanistan remark, Mr Abbott has at least managed to end the taboo on using a certain expletive in Australian broadsheets' headlines.

But some anthropologists said his 1968 ethnography, Yanomamö: The Fierce People, exploited the tribe by breaking their taboo on using the names of the dead; others argued that its emphasis on violent encounters helped governments justify invasions of Yanomamö territory.

There is certainly, in the minds of the media and the American public, no taboo on using nuclear weapons, and it all started, but did not end, with Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

On one hand, there has been a taboo on their use since the mustard and chlorine gas horrors of the First World War.

They have recently jettisoned taboos on using women and children as suicide bombers, and on assassinating tribal elders.

But it is disturbing that the debate has reinforced the inverted taboo of the nuclear age — a taboo on disarmament rather than on nuclear weapons themselves.

In response, a taboo on re-election emerged.

The Gaza disengagement in 2005 broke a taboo on removing Israeli settlements from the occupied territories.

Secretary of State John Kerry has rightly pointed to the taboo on use of chemical weapons as a universally accepted global "norm".