So often abuse becomes either a source of humor or a taboo discussion topic.
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There's still a taboo over speaking ill of the dead, but some people choose to ignore it.
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There is a taboo that left-leaning critics of popular culture are obliged to observe: never criticize the populace.
Reading the warning signs and intervening can no longer be a taboo topic.
Two of the people I interviewed said that things like sharing vacation photos was a taboo as investors might see them.
The South Africans said that a taboo on discussing the prospect of legalising the trade in the animals must be lifted.
He questions why the idea of human nature has become a taboo subject, exploring "hot buttons" like violence, gender and aggression.
"It is a taboo in Qatar to see somebody wearing the national dress and drinking, " said Hassan Al Ibrahim, a Qatari commentator.
Nearly 5 million South Africans may have AIDS, medical experts estimate, and for many in the country discussing the disease is a taboo.
Analysts say the case shows how much homosexuality is still a taboo in Egypt, where many people are not prepared to even acknowledge it exists.
Community workers say that debt is a taboo topic for elderly people, and they will keep their money problems secret even from their closest loved ones.
Comparing salaries among colleagues has long been a taboo of workplace chatter, but that is changing as Millennials-individuals born in the 1980s and 1990s-join the labor force.
This broke a taboo on the restructuring of debt to multilateral agencies, and set up a framework for systematic debt reduction in return for overdue economic house-cleaning.
It's a taboo subject generally in society and may be particularly difficult in a busy health care setting where it is crowded and there isn't a lot of time.
Apart from the social faux pas of typing in a meeting (a taboo that seems to be fading quickly in corporate conference rooms and universities), keyboards are simply better for taking notes.
The tournament was seen by many as the perfect platform to promote safe sex and increase awareness and education about a disease that is, to a large degree, still a taboo subject in the region.
The country secured an aid package early Monday, but at a steep cost, breaking a taboo by agreeing to tax depositors' holdings and hit another group that has generally been spared financial-crisis pain: senior bank bondholders.
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But despite prostate cancer being the second leading cause of deaths among men, with a life lost to the disease every six minutes, it is a taboo subject for many men, who can feel too embarrassed to mention the condition.
"The decision of what to make has never come from a point of 'gee, let's go break a taboo' - it comes simply from what I need to do with my life, what will make my life a rich and interesting journey, " he says.
Lord Turner, in what will be his last speech to the City at the Mansion House in his current role, also broke something of a taboo among prominent British ministers and officials by speaking openly about how if the eurozone cannot save itself through making bold reforms, it should attempt to dissolve itself in what he called a "controlled rather than chaotic fashion".
Trend chasing is a fairly taboo act in any creative field, where having a distinct and unique vision is the key element to creating affecting and effective art, and it can be a death wish in pop music.
This is a major break in post-WWII policy, in which aggression became a fundamental taboo.
It cut the rate to 5.75% and urged banks to borrow from the window, a previously taboo measure.
When the magazines called to see if she had bought it at Kitson, Ross broke a boutique taboo and said yes.
Members of Congress are talking about reducing the cost of living adjustment for Social Security, and it no longer seems to be such a political taboo.
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