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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

“Sexual orientation does not debar anyone from God’s love,” it said in a statement in March.

From New York Times May 22, 2015

What! debar Your wounded knight, in this wild barren spot, From the sunshine of those heavenly orbs.

From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III by M. Y. Halidom (pseud. Dryasdust)

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

Entertainments of this kind may often be practicable, as the question of service sometimes debars one from entertaining many guests at a time.

From The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald

Also, the cost of Mr. Myers' book debars from it the mass of readers.

From Psychic Phenomena A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed in Psychical Research by Edward T. Bennett

If me from this no fate debars Then my swelled head shall strike the stars.

From Wayside Weeds by William Hodgson Ellis

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

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

The U.N. suspended work with Glocoms in 2013 after a reporter informed it that the World Bank had debarred the company.

From Washington Post Sep. 23, 2016

As a result the publisher has been added to the bank's "debarred list", which names and shames organisations found by the bank to have acted corruptly.

From The Guardian May 6, 2010

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

Depend upon my sincerity for this," Defoe answers, "that I am far from debarring you.

From Daniel Defoe by William Minto

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

An Suspension of Master John Graham, With the ordinance for debarring the Ministers who are Commissioners of that Presbyterie from this Assembly.

From The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

May 30.—Prynne continued, in subsequent pamphlets, to attack the Rumpers for the wrong done to him and the other secluded members in still debarring them from their seats.

From The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by David Masson

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




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