Sentence examples for social proscription from inspiring English sources

It seems that there is a social proscription against sexual behaviours for younger age group and such social censure discourages free communication on the subject with parents.

The pilgrimage site of Lisieux is second only to Lourdes in terms of visitor numbers and many will feel they have derived genuine benefit from visiting the relics during this tour, but we must recognise this event as part of the agenda of a Catholic church whose social proscriptions have become obsolete and for whom political expediency comes before popular opinion.

John Paul showed himself generally unwilling to accept the incompatibility between Catholic social proscriptions and the drive to improve women's lives, particularly in the developing world, and in 1994 he declared that the church had no authority to ordain women into the priesthood, shutting down all discussion of this issue.

Tobacco is now readily available with few social proscriptions on its use.

Social proscriptions against sex outside of marriage, though, could limit unmarried women's access to contraception or safe abortion services.

His wish that the twain should always yearn to meet, which they do at the end of "As You Like It," makes you think of Washington and the political arguments over the boundaries between arrogance and tolerance, social Darwinism and benevolence, proscription and inclusiveness.

Some have constructed a taboo (a social and a moral proscription) around vaccination; in Benin, a taboo is often an object that must not be touched or an idea that must not be questioned.

In other countries outlawry in civil actions was virtually unknown, but manifestations of it, ranging from informal social ostracism to formal statutory proscription, were used as a criminal sanction.

Our findings underscore the social and political reverberations of hunting proscriptions.

Gender disparity in premarital coital activity appears, however, pronounced higher up the adolescent social hierarchy, consistent with stronger adherence to cultural proscription for females.

However, the mediating role of social support in a setting of social and legal proscriptions to induced abortion is complex.