forbidding

Example Sentences

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German Economy Minister Katherina Reiche proposed forbidding gas stations from changing prices more than once a day.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

A government notice said junta chief Min Aung Hlaing ordered releases of more than 7,300 prisoners convicted under legislation forbidding "financing of terrorism" and harbouring or arranging transport for "any terrorist group".

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026

But that decision does not prevent Congress from forbidding them by legislation.

From Slate • Feb. 19, 2026

They are part of a growing network of “dual-use” facilities—newly built or expanded and modernized over a decade—that dot the Tibetan plateau’s forbidding landscape.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

Black and forbidding it loomed above them, darker than the dark sky behind.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien