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The U.N. suspended work with Glocoms in 2013 after a reporter informed it that the World Bank had debarred the company.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2016

A knowledge of this fact had grievously wounded the Doctor; he could not cease to recall the austerity with which he had debarred the poor woman all intercourse with Adèle upon her sick-bed.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 by Various

Since 1898, the Bureau had debarred increasing numbers on account of loathsome and contagious diseases.

From Races and Immigrants in America by Commons, John R. (John Rogers)

He preferred the latter, and was once more at the hotel, where he dedicated the remainder of the day to thinking of his old friends, as fate had debarred him from seeing them.

From The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook by Marryat, Frederick

From such delight as that he found, on calm reflection, that he had debarred himself by the folly of his past life.

From Ralph the Heir by Trollope, Anthony