Sentence examples for strong taboo from inspiring English sources

In China, for example, a strong taboo hangs over discussing death.

But, with the notable exception of David Lammy, a strong taboo prevents its mention across London's party political spectrum.

"The society considers it a family issue, and there is a strong taboo against discussing a family matter in public," she said.

However, the prohibitionist policies towards psychoactive substances create a strong taboo, which makes many scientists, universities and funding bodies unwilling to become involved.

But it seems at the same time to be laboring under a strong taboo against the expression of any kind of individuality, as if it were worried about making a good impression.

We also know that the most tantalising eroticism is usually created when there is a strong taboo element, especially in your case – your imaginings are all the more exciting because they are in opposition to your feminist sensibility.

There were, for this reason, strong taboos against actions that would deform and desecrate "the mother", including mining.

Furthermore, strong taboos on critical examination of the emperor's role, or indeed of the imperial system itself, are enforced by thuggish nationalists.

Mr. Chamie said there was a relatively low incidence of AIDS in northern Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia with conservative Muslim populations and strong taboos about sexual behavior, compared with central and sub-Saharan Africa.

No full-scale tests among them had been conducted, but Gunn was not optimistic, the inland Eskimos are believed to have strong taboos against eating food from the sea -or, as they called it, animals without legs.

Moreover, we think that pushing someone to the brink of suicide, particularly where the person comes from a culture with strong taboos against suicide and it is evidenced by acts of self-mutilation, would be a sufficient disruption of the personality to constitute a "profound disruption".