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transgressing

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Present participle of transgress

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It took an age to set up the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA), to house the bad assets of the country's banks, and to devise a process for pricing them without transgressing EU state-aid rules.

The FCC has its critics at home, but admirers give it some of the credit for America's new economy boom, thanks to its understanding of the effects of technology-driven convergence and its ability to join up the dots of the big picture.Ofcom will have increased powers to investigate and fine companies for transgressing competition rules and content standards.

Penalties for transgressing its religious and political strictures, even in word, include hefty fines and jail sentences, beatings and beheadings.

Although the early years of his reign were dominated by his harsh and unpopular adviser Count Sponneck, who was obliged to return to Denmark in 1877, he refrained from transgressing the prerogatives of the National Assembly and became one of the most successful constitutional monarchs in Europe.

In A Treatise of Human Nature (1739 40), he argued that "the rule concerning the stability of possession" is a product of spontaneous ordering processes, because "it arises gradually, and acquires force by a slow progression, and by our repeated experience of the inconveniences of transgressing it".

Žižek stressed Lacan's account of the Freudian superego, according to which it is not merely an agency that forbids but also one that incites jouissance, an excessive and simultaneously painful kind of enjoyment derived from transgressing the superego's own prohibitions.

The penalties for transgressing endogamous restrictions have varied greatly among cultures and have ranged from death to mild disapproval.

Knight enjoys transgressing boundaries – past, present, and future.

Others don't like it at all because it's transgressing a few boundaries.

Punishments for transgressing ritual prohibitions and social rules often incorporated ritual sacrifice or even the death of the transgressor.

The alternative is a tightly policed solipsism, more absolute than life could bear: depict no one but your own kind, for fear of transgressing against the Other's purity of being.

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