debar
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It is relatively rare for HHS to debar an NIH grantee.
From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2024
On Dec. 30, Labor announced a move to debar or prohibit any new federal contracts with Restaurant Associates.
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
I know too well the luxury of having done 'the last' for a friend, to debar any one from it.
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Hall, Edward B.
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.
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Yet, alas! one trifling deficiency ruins his prospects; he has an impediment in his speech, which debars him from the use of the W’s.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 18, 1841 by Various
The phraseology of the constitution debars the Emperor, as Emperor, from introducing proposals.
From The Governments of Europe by Ogg, Frederic Austin
Those who, though able to preach worthily, are afraid through excessive humility; and those whom imperfection or age debars from preaching, and yet rashness impels to it.
From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Ogg, Frederic Austin
To find a chamber whose occupant is invisible debars you forever from obtaining the proof that you have found it.
From Beyond by Hubbard, Henry Seward
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 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
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
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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"Why, what under the sun do you want, Happy?" she asked, going into her own room and debarring all the others whose curiosity was at the snapping point.
From Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home by Jackson, Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie)
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 Masson, David
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 Berdoe, Edward
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 Merriam, George Spring
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
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