debarring

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In New York City absence is the sole condition for debarring any pupil, since he must have pursued a subject the prescribed time.

From The High School Failures A Study of the School Records of Pupils Failing in Academic or Commercial High School Subjects by Obrien, Francis P.

For we like to keep our coin up to our own standard, debarring no man from making better for himself.

From The Hymns of Martin Luther Set to their original melodies; with an English version by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

If you abide by it, you deny the Absolute and Infinite in the very act of affirming it, for, in debarring the First Cause from self-revelation, you impose a limit on its nature.

From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George

“No,” he said; “that would be debarring myself from escaping.”

From Commodore Junk by Fenn, George Manville

They and their employers hated and feared La Salle, who, sustained as he was by the Governor, might set at nought the prohibition of the king, debarring him from traffic with these tribes.

From France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 by Parkman, Francis