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Norwegian regulators had proscribed bank dividends due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but those restrictions have since been lifted.

From Reuters • Oct. 21, 2021

Wrapped in a dressing gown and basking in the sun at the Westchester Country Club near White Plains, N. Y.. Oilman Doherty banged the table when he heard Kansas had proscribed his stock.

From Time Magazine Archive

All manifestations of popular favor towards those whom the court had proscribed and sought to ruin, were at this juncture visited with the extreme of arbitrary severity.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Aikin, Lucy

The Whigs scoffed at pageants and symbols; the earlier Puritans had proscribed ceremonial as savouring of idolatry, and feared any manifestation of beauty as a snare of the devil.

From The Rise of the Democracy by Clayton, Joseph

Well; we know that Druidism did survive in Gaul a long time after the Romans had proscribed it.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth