transgressor

Examples of transgressing

transgressing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Fines would be levied by a vote of finance ministers, with the transgressing nation excluded from voting.
There are in fact many discourse systems overlapping and transgressing one another to create our identities.
The suggestion is that transgressing the stronger right requires a more important goal.
Disregarding her wishes the modern judiciary sees a runaway woman as transgressing traditional norms and morally reprehensible.
The most familiar example on the level of clinical bioethics is the public-health justification for transgressing confidentiality.
In short, the more strict rabbis sought to assert rabbinic authority over adulterers, or at least transgressing women.
Without exception, the participants who received support from family and friends in this study perceived helping-seeking boundaries and expressed concern about transgressing these.
The sovereign, who has committed to transgressing in this payoff region, benefits from these errors.
Their comments suggest that they find themselves transgressing the norms of the dominant gender paradigm.
So "transgressing" is neutral as between the permissible and the impermissible.
Rather than transgressing such norms, individuals will live up to them, or fail to do so, to varying degrees.
The moral order of villages rests on agrarian values which people do not wish to question publicly or appear to be transgressing.
It brings the boundary into existence by transgressing it in the reverse direction.
Melvin explained to me that this was another way of transgressing the invisible barrier enforced by the proscenium arch.
Moreover, repression and civil strife become more likely as the sovereign's payoff from transgressing and being challenged increases relative to the payoff of not transgressing at all.
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