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debar

[dih-bahr] / dɪˈbɑr /


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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

They're just dead in earnest to beat the game by the accepted rules of it, which don't debar general crookedness.

From The Son of his Father by Ridgwell Cullum

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

This constant change of employment debars me from literary and theological improvement, and leaves me less qualified to expound Scripture to refined assemblies.

From The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada by J. George (John George) Hodgins

But you're crooked," retorted the King, "and that debars you.

From The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Of course, this argument is entirely reasonable, and debars us completely from chopping logic about the concrete examples Mr. Haldane has chosen.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James

This very nearness of sympathy debars any separation.

From The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 by Various

Ancient women were debarred from holding power but sometimes did so from behind the scenes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

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

Also your honour writeth of the debarring of your merchants at the sea port from their accustomed libertie of enterchangeable trafficke and bartar.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 by Richard Hakluyt

When, after defection, gracious reforming kings arose, and had to do against foreign invasion, we find them not debarring any subjects, but calling them out promiscuously.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

The duke had insisted on the incognito as debarring Maximilian from all claim to attention from a prince like himself whose rank was not concealed.

From The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Charles Duke Yonge

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 St. George Mivart

Montesquieu has made it clear that the debarring of the nobility from mercantile pursuits was an admirable social policy, in that it prevented wealth from accumulating in the hands of the powerful.

From Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe


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