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There are ways among the stone and shadow of our cloisters to transgress the Rule.
We see it regularly now when prominent figures fall foul of the law or when disgraced business leaders transgress the code and pay the price.
The figures, in this way, served as surrogates of the body, enabling the idea of the body to transgress social norms without consequence.
They experience pain, transgress borders and limits, and come into existence in situations that are stimulated by pain.
Is it not in its nature to transgress the limits of knowledge, thus revealing dimensions of life beyond the reach of other disciplines?
By 9500 BC the outward flow stopped and the sea began to transgress into the enlarged Great Belt, turning it brackish very slowly.
However, he did still have to be firm with the girl, otherwise she would transgress.
This could have been a dark novel where guilt, longing and desire transgress accepted boundaries.
At some point during the lower Devonian, the sea began to transgress again, and this continued through the deposition of the Port Ewen formation.
As a luminary and law minister, he cannot be expected to overstep his jurisdiction and transgress his limits beyond his domain.
The desire to transgress the limits and limitations of human existence is a driving force behind all art.
We fear lest he hasten with insolence against us, or lest he transgress all bounds.
Its goal is to hold governments accountable if they transgress the rights of their people.
Those who transgress in scent-free zones may be asked to wash. And about time, too, it should be said.
If I transgress this oath and forswear myself, may I be forced to live with arts graduates and become an expert on the theoretical control of space and time.
It is pitched to the violent fantasies of his audience, and its purpose is to excite, to transgress, to draw tighter the bonds of shared hatred.
By performing the personal in public, talk-show guests transgress the boundaries of behavior and decorum deemed appropriate by middle-class society.
As the moral panic unfolds, more and more cultural forms transgress or come up against the symbolic boundary that such prohibitionary legislation seeks to impose.
But when he delivereth them, behold! they transgress insolently through the earth in defiance of right!
But will the leaders have the courage to apply it for example, against Mr Chavez, were he to transgress democratic norms in future?
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Examples from Classical Literature
Oh, so good and indulgent as he is to us, how wicked it was to transgress his will!
For it is not in any man's power to constrain thee to transgress against him.
The boundaries of the State were defined, and it engaged not to transgress them.
But I was in a mood to transgress all rules and even to forget the rights of lovers.
Is it better to drive a fellow-creature to despair than to transgress a mere human law, no man being injured by the breach?
For just consider, if you transgress and err in this sort of way, what good will you do either to yourself or to your friends?
Nevertheless I had to come, for none of us other gods can cross Jove, nor transgress his orders.
If somebody transgresses against you, transgress against them the same way.
If they transgress their duty, we are to hope that they will be punished.
Here and there a restriction annoyed her particularly, and she would transgress it, and perhaps be sorry that she had done so.
Should any one transgress the law, he is punished, not imprisoned.
Though some may get property, no one knows how, yet they are not privileged to transgress the laws any more than the poorest citizen in the State.
Conversely, we may be uncharitably quick to bring down those whose selfish greed exceeds normal ambition, particularly those who transgress in high office.
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