Sentence examples for taboos on using from inspiring English sources

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

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.

"After the taboos of using artillery, helicopters and missiles on civilians have been broken, the taboo of using unconventional weapons has apparently been shattered as well... What is supposed to be an enlightened world cannot remain silent," the article says.

“When it stopped being taboo, no one used it,” Niel says.

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

The authors get round the ethnicity taboo by using census data on national origin.

This instantaneous perception clashes sharply with the American cultural taboo against using race to identify someone.