debar
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It is relatively rare for HHS to debar an NIH grantee.
From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2024
The effort to debar Restaurant Associates stems from its July agreement, and that of subcontractor Personnel Plus, to provide $1,008,302 in back pay to 674 workers.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2017
You would think that views like that might just debar you from holding that office, but no.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2015
The company said Thursday that it had “not been advised of the intention of any federal agency to suspend or debar the company in connection with the plea agreement.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2012
An attempt was made to debar the prelates from political offices, and an attack on the wealth of the Church was threatened.
From The English Church in the Middle Ages by William Hunt
The temptation to do this presses heavily on those whose occupations end with daylight and on those multitudes of elderly folk whose chief sorrow now is that age debars them from public service.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They are peevish at home, and malevolent abroad; and, as the outlaws of human nature, make it their business and their pleasure to disturb that society which debars them from its privileges.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford
If a man goes through life without touching a card, he probably loses a good deal of innocent amusement, and debars himself from much pleasant society.
From The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent by Sir Home Gordon, Bart.
What the world calls friends are usually relatives, and we have but one who could pretend to any sort of influence; and his treatment of my poor husband debars us from all knowledge of him.
From Tony Butler by Charles James Lever
She therefore repeated her remark slowly and in precisely the same words and tone— “I hope that there is no consideration as to health which debars you from this very desirable exercise, Mr Riddell?”
From The Willoughby Captains by Talbot Baines Reed
Horowitz criticized the government’s failure early on to use the “Do Not Pay” Treasury Department database, designed to keep government money from going to debarred contractors, fugitives, felons or people convicted of tax fraud.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 11, 2023
The divorced, disgraced, and debarred physician was ready to come out of the shadows: He was an illegal abortionist and had been for more than 35 years and 25,000 procedures.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2022
Career employees, meanwhile, have faced warning letters, reprimands, suspensions without pay and, in extreme cases, been fired and debarred from returning to government.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2020
The order stipulates that officials who violate the pledge can be debarred from their post and future lobbying, and possibly sued in civil court.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2017
For this doctrine, as may be presumed, he was debarred from all preaching.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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No longer the lean ascetic, debarring his soul of her rightful pleasures; but embracing all the joys of life, and combining pleasure with knowledge.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
And did you ever find yourself and that person politely dancing before each other for a minute or so, debarring each other's progress, because, unhappily, both your thoughts led you in the same direction?
From Molly Bawn by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
This was ingeniously framed with an appearance of justice, as if debarring from office only those who to rebellion had added perjury.
From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by George Spring Merriam
But now, how immeasurably worse than poverty was his condition!—disgrace, dishonour,—irrevocable, perhaps inexpiable,—possibly debarring him from ever claiming his rights!
From Nevermore by Rolf Bolderwood
As before stated, the customer's dealings with the pass-book cannot, in the present state of the authorities, be relied on as debarring him from disputing unauthorized payments appearing therein.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
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