have debarred
- present perfect of debar.
Example Sentences
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Circumstances have debarred me until now from referring to a letter from India, which I gave you before I went to Washington.
From Infelice by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)
But I have the weakness of garrulity in regard to a predilection from the indulgence of which circumstances have debarred me.
From Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 by MacDonald, George
This is nearly the last we learn of him, and his age, nearly seventy years,-35- must have debarred him from farther service.
From A Memoir of Sir Edmund Andros, Knt., Governor of New England, New York and Virginia, &c., &c. by Whitmore, William Henry
"It should have hung, rather, in Dicky's nursery; which," she added, picking up and using the weapon she most disliked, "need not have debarred your seeing it from time to time."
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
The situation is interesting in view of the amiable resolutions adopted at Washington, by which the Powers would seem to have debarred themselves, in the future, from any active form of intervention in this country.
From The Problem of China by Russell, Bertrand
