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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 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

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

You would debar me from the one great right of all my life?

From The Broken Gate A Novel by Emerson Hough

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

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

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

I have heard grave and industrious persons declare emphatically that any one who allows himself to fall under your sway debars himself utterly from every chance of success.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 12, 1891 by Various

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.

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

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

Its good qualities are offset by two defects: thin skin which bursts easily, thus wholly debarring it from distant markets; and flavor and appearance not sufficiently good to make it a table-grape.

From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick

And did you ever find yourself and that person politely dancing before each other for a minute or so, debarring each other's progress, because, unhappily, both your thoughts led you in the same direction?

From Molly Bawn by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

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

But now, how immeasurably worse than poverty was his condition!—disgrace, dishonour,—irrevocable, perhaps inexpiable,—possibly debarring him from ever claiming his rights!

From Nevermore by Rolf Bolderwood


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