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The proposed rules would have forbid export of a fairly large category of software that is routinely used in investigating systems for vulnerabilities.

From Slate Oct. 5, 2015

Nay," said the Recluse, "thou must obey me for thy own good, and I have forbid all speech.

From The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times by Adams, John Turvill

How much have I bidden! how oft have forbid!

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

I would have sought another interview with you, but I know the rules of your school would have forbid, and the only alternative remaining is to make this avowal, or be forgotten by you.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 by Various

Prudence and delicacy alike ought to have forbid the camp of Tamasese to the feet of either Leary or Moors. 

From A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa by Stevenson, Robert Louis