However, when these taboos threaten to destroy the culture itself, they must be defied for the health of the overall public -- and to save the culture itself.
It is unscientific to "defy, for no good logical or empirical reason, established hypotheses and laws".
The difference, you might say, between a game and a test is that games have wriggle-room: for defying orthodoxies, for invention, for the play of instinct.
He is defying age for the sake of bearing witness.
LONDON -- Some plays are worth defying claustrophobia for.
On Thursday, the European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged, defying calls for bolder action.
(Talk of a woman defying convention, for example, spurs images of Angela Davis and Betty Friedan).
Except all over the world, people are defying it for a greater cause.
He was still in his home today, defying orders for his arrest.
China recorded a $1.7 billion trade surplus last month, defying expectations for a second consecutive deficit after March's $7.2 billion shortfall.
Manufacturers and the wider industrial sector failed to clock up any growth in November, defying forecasts for modest growth.
