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"Sometimes a ban makes things worse. Protesting is a right -- it's like with children, when you forbid something, it becomes even more tempting," one employee remarked to AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

That’s not your total return because it doesn’t include appreciation — or, heaven forbid, depreciation — of your home.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

The sanctions would forbid most transactions with the ICC after a grace period of six to seven months, according to documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal and U.S. officials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

While most jurisdiction forbid medical help to die, assisted dying laws around the world vary.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

“I forbid you to go out that way, too I” “Idiota!” the kid sister called back at him with dignity after she had flounced past.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

He outran his leash, unique to him and not like any other president’s, both in what it permits and what it forbids.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

The three media organisations have argued that the ban breaches their rights under the First Amendment, which forbids the government from "abridging" the freedom of the press.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

"There is a regulatory vacuum because Article 4 of the 1967 treaty only forbids weapons of mass destruction and nuclear weapons in orbit," said space law expert Laetitia Cesari.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

Trump officials say any such favoritism violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a federal law that forbids discrimination in education and was created to fight segregation and its impact.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

One hospital writes back about a hippopotamus law that forbids them from telling me anything.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

The Meyer decision, for example, overturned a Nebraska law which forbad teaching non-English languages in public and private schools.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2022

But the chapter refused him obedience, and the States of Holland forbad him to exercise any official function, and under threat of banishment of all Jesuits demanded the immediate return of the archbishop.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz

The Freiburg curia, however, protested, and in 1867 forbad clergy and candidates to submit to this examination or to seek a dispensation from it.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz

For this cause the King was displeased with Thurstine, and forbad him to returne into the Realme.

From The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by John Hayward

The Grand Council, however, did not allow the contemplated formation of an independent congregation, and in 1824 forbad all “sectarian” assemblies, while the mob raged even more wildly than at Geneva against the “Momiers.”

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz

Yet he is so bad at ABS challenges that manager Dave Roberts forbade Pages from challenging pitches after his unsuccessful challenge in the NL Division Series opener Monday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Common-law rules at the time forbade defendant testimony on the theory that it was self-interested and thus unreliable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

The reason for the separation between the businesses, Corley added, had to do with a defunct local law that forbade the two establishments existing under one umbrella.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

That’s because the rule never forbade criticism of the SEC, but only a defendant’s attempt to deny the allegations or facts in a settlement that it “neither admitted nor denied.”

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026

Soon enough, though, Mahmoud learned of his son’s aspirations, and, fearing he would lose his son to the unforgiving sea that had almost taken his own life, he forbade him from swimming long distances.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

Mr. Jones suggests that James sublimated doubts and forbidden desires into his stories and the routines of Cambridge and Eton.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Gender segregation is standard practice for many Orthodox Jews but is forbidden in public places by the government of socially liberal Tel Aviv.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

He said his parents were deeply religious and so strict that even simple pleasures such as singing were forbidden.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

It provides a sense of community and the thrill of holding forbidden knowledge.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Sam wanted to go up on the wall, but his parents had forbidden it.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Diehards might find fault with something or other, but, to quote the author, you’d have to possess a “most forbidding, disagreeable countenance” not to be charmed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Well, it's not exactly Mariah Carey demanding baskets of puppies and forbidding eye contact, but Imbruglia was shaken up.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

In May the Justice Ministry invoked its new anti-extraterritorial-jurisdiction rules for the first time, forbidding Chinese entities from cooperating with the European Commission’s investigation, under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, into Chinese security-equipment maker Nuctech.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

If your niece’s mother lives there rent-free, the trustee should be comfortable that doing so benefits your niece and there should be no rules forbidding it.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

Penelope nodded, for she had once seen a large and forbidding portrait of Admiral Percival Racine Ashton hanging in Lord Fredrick’s taxidermy-filled study.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood