We have violated yet another taboo in our own lives, and this is a bonus taboo.

Rethinking the Monetization Taboo

Sexual abuse is a taboo and it is, sometimes, practiced in families and the victims know the perpetrators.

The Government is also supporting initiatives to break the silence on taboo subjects.

Envy, it's a real taboo to mention envy, but if there is one dominant emotion in modern society, that is envy.

The debate on innovative mechanisms for the financing of development is no longer taboo.

I'll move on to taboo number two.

Layma said to me later, It's a taboo, you know, in West Africa.

It has been said that Hiroshima and Nagasaki created a taboo against any further use of nuclear weapons. Let us hope so, but let us also demand that the taboo be made legally binding.

I thought, My goodness, what taboo have I broken?

In 2003 a plan of action was presented for opening up discussion on domestic violence in ethnic minority communities, where it is very much a taboo subject.

So taboo number four you can't say that your average happiness has declined since having a child.

And if we just taboo it completely we could lose civilization.

But I think, actually, the alternative is to grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo word carrying frissons of hysterical phobia.

Anyway, the question I think people should talk about and it's absolutely taboo is, how many people should there be?

It exists, but seeing as it is taboo and that nobody talks about it, there's no need to have words for it.

AV A quick bonus taboo for you, that we should not be working together, especially with three children and we are.

Channeling EU structural funds towards innovation is essential, given that spending on research and development is alarmingly low compared to our global partners. Fundamental reform of the Common Agricultural Policy should not remain a taboo.

In the Pakistani society, pre marital sex is taboo and therefore the question of programmes for treatment of sexually transmitted diseases for the adolescents is difficult to address.

AV So taboo number three you can't talk about your miscarriage but today I'll talk about mine.

What remains is the rejection of Eurobonds, but that, too, will ultimately disappear. The only question is whether that taboo will fall before or after next year s German general election.

Among those who've helped open my eyes to a third way are a devout Muslim in Afghanistan, a group of harmonizing lesbians in Croatia and a taboo breaker in Liberia.

And, while mistresses abound among the privileged classes, they do not strut publicly by their power mates sides. Kissing and fondling in public, even by spouses, is taboo.

Another reason although I think, perhaps, the most powerful reason why we find it hard to slow down is the cultural taboo that we've erected against slowing down.

Support services for families where incest or sexual abuse has occurred. Like most societies discussion of sexual abuse in the family, particularly incest is taboo in Pakistan also.

I guess what the Slow Movement the purpose of the Slow Movement, or its main goal, really, is to tackle that taboo, and to say that yes, sometimes slow is not the answer, that there is such a thing as bad slow.

It's delicious, it's nutritious, and as I learned when I went to Kashgar, it symbolizes their taboo against food waste.

Indeed, there is something of a taboo on writing about Tsarukyan, and with good reason not only is he rich, but also he controls an army of obedient skinheads. Armenia frequently sees skinheads attacking reporters covering opposition rallies and once severely beating a leading opposition politician.

NAIROBI When I was born, 25 years ago, it would have been rare even taboo to find African women discussing soccer. But that is what my girlfriends and I now do.

So the first, taboo number one you can't say you didn't fall in love with your baby in the very first minute.

The international community must not allow the taboo against the threat or use of nuclear weapons, established since 1945, to be broken.

Domestic violence was a taboo subject in Benin, as elsewhere, and any problems were generally settled within the immediate family itself or with the assistance of moral or village authorities.

Young people don t know, because most parents have shut up about it, lest they get themselves and their children in trouble, and because the subject is never mentioned in the official Chinese media it is a taboo. Websites mentioning the events of 1989 are closed down.

Speaking of imperatives, geoengineering is taboo now, especially in government circles, though I think there was a DARPA meeting on it a couple of weeks ago, but it will be on your plate not this year but pretty soon, because some harsh realizations are coming along.

One example is Eurobonds, which Merkel has declared taboo. Yet they are the obvious solution to the root cause of the euro crisis, which is that joining the euro exposed member countries government bonds to the risk of default.

In the case of the incest taboo, our response has an obvious evolutionary explanation. But should we allow our judgment of what is a crime to be determined by feelings of repugnance that may have strengthened the evolutionary fitness of ancestors who lacked effective contraception?

If Japan does decide to scale down its defense forces in this respect, a bold and qualitative change is inevitable. In particular, this could mean the introduction of what has so far been viewed as somewhat taboo equipment, such as light aircraft carriers or nuclear submarines.

In view of the risk of inciting fresh antagonism, gathering racial, religious, and ethnic statistics may not be worth it. The ban against ethnic and racial data is a taboo that should not be overthrown easily, and not without carefully weighing the risk to social peace.

Mao s Cultural Revolution was launched 40 years ago this month, yet, despite 20 years of economic liberalization, its wounds remain a taboo subject. Today s rulers dare not face up to their own experiences or moral responsibility.

When middle class women anywhere in the world get over this taboo, we will do so by understanding that money is never just about money, and that becoming financially literate means pushing back against a social role that casts middle class women as polite, economically vague, underpaid, shopping dazed dependents.

My approach to attacking creationism is to attack religion as a whole, and at this point I need to acknowledge the remarkable taboo against speaking ill of religion, and I'm going to do so in the words of the late Douglas Adams, a dear friend who, if he never came to TED, certainly should have been invited.

How successful Obama is in managing the domestic politics and international diplomacy of his nuclear agenda will be an important factor in his effectiveness as a world leader. Even more important, his progress in 2010 will say a lot about the world s ability to maintain the existing 60 year taboo against the use of nuclear weapons.

That pretense may reflect a useful taboo if we overtly recognize that debt write off monetization is possible, politicians might want to do it all the time and in excess, not just in circumstances that make it appropriate. The historical experience of Weimar Germany, or that of Zimbabwe today, illustrates the danger.

Allies like the imam, allies like the father who now writes songs for a lesbian group in Croatia, allies like the policeman who honored a taboo and backed away, allies like my father, who couldn't help his sister but has helped three daughters pursue their dreams.

The HIV AIDS leadership programme of UNDP mobilized people in Cambodia, 45 per cent of whom were women, to bring the taboo subject of sexual behaviours that fuel the pandemic into the public debate.