debar

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 should not debar you from such works.

From A Double Knot by George Manville Fenn

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

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

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 Frederic Austin Ogg

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

It is a false modesty which debars the youth of our land from obtaining such information.

From The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

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

Catholics, meanwhile, had been deliberately debarred from Parliament by the oath, which involved recognising that the monarch rather than the Pope was in charge of the Church.

From BBC ● May 20, 2015

Private Morris debarred our passage with his arm.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

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

From Daniel Defoe by William Minto

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

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 Leonard Woolsey Bacon

If I did, no doubt, by the same parental authority, my epistle would be intercepted—still further compromising her—still further debarring the chance of a reconciliation with her father!

From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid