debar
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It is relatively rare for HHS to debar an NIH grantee.
From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2024
The agency also is seeking to debar the company’s principal officer, Dick Cattani.
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
O leech is come, an' leech is gane,25 Yet, father, I'm aye waur; There's not a leech in Edinbro' Can death from me debar.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
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
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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
If a man goes through life without touching a card, he probably loses a good deal of innocent amusement, and debars himself from much pleasant society.
From The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent by Sir Home Gordon, Bart.
But you're crooked," retorted the King, "and that debars you.
From The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
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
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
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
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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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
This comprehensive Act, calculated to overawe the Army Magnates by debarring them from all power of money-raising, had been hurried through because of signs that nothing less would avail, if even that would now suffice.
From The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by David Masson
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
Balder had felt her touch, first as a benediction; then it chilled him, through remembrance of a deed forever debarring him from aught so pure and innocent as she.
From Idolatry A Romance by Julian Hawthorne
The commissioners rendered his confinement at Holdenby very rigorous; dismissing his ancient servants, debarring him from visits, and cutting off all communication with his friends or family.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by David Hume
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