Example Sentences

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Prohibiting a protest march is only lawful "in the interests of national security" or to prevent "serious public disorder".

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2023

Prohibiting third-party publications would make it harder for seniors to get the Current, Danica Wick said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2022

Prohibiting players from those countries from competing in tournaments would be the next and more drastic step.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2022

Prohibiting these practices reflected the idea that luxury bred corruption, and the First Continental Congress wanted to demonstrate that the colonists would do without British vices.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

Prohibiting bringing slaves into the District, or selling them out of it.

From A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History by Nicolay, John George