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"God forbid we wake up the prime minister and he says, 'Wake up the entire IDF immediately, scramble the air force!'" he told Israel's right-wing Channel 14 television network.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Heaven forbid, should you and your husband predecease your mother, what happens to the house she lives in?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

Tina Vaughn and Chip Smith, the husband-and-wife owners of Eulalie, an upscale cloth-napkin bistro in Tribeca, also forbid phone use at their restaurant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Laws forbid the IRS from targeting individuals and organizations for ideological reasons, and federal officials are not allowed to direct IRS investigations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

He persuaded you to forbid Éomer to pursue the raiding Orcs.

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

He cited the Administrative Procedure Act, which forbids abrupt and “arbitrary” changes in federal regulations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 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

It forbids the government from "abridging" the freedom of the press - language that courts have traditionally interpreted as preventing the government from discriminating against the media based on the content of their coverage.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

One key statute forbids the erection of any building or structure on federal grounds in the District of Columbia without express permission from Congress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

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

The people were commanded to purify themselves and wash their garments, and Moses forbad any one to approach the mountain.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker

Gregory XVI. in 1835 condemned his writings, and the new Archbishop of Cologne, Droste-Vischering, forbad students at Bonn attending the lectures of Hermesians.

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

Hence it seems, as if the Ambassador intended at first to 344 communicate the letter, but that its contents on being decyphered forbad it.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution Volume 7. by Various

His Majesty easily imagin'd that the Queen had been surpriz'd; and being justly angry with Bassompierre, forbad him the Court.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz

Offended and upset, some fans demanded an apology - but the band's record label, forbade the members from issuing a statement.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

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

In an earlier era, George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees, forbade his players to wear their hair long or have beards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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

He loved sleeping on her bed, though her grandmother often forbade it.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

Paul Mackenzie said education was forbidden and modern medicine was "evil"

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

As Li’s novel makes clear, to be young and ambitious in 18th century Europe meant having the fortitude to dream forbidden dreams, against all odds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 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

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

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Bobby couldn’t understand why the chief arbiter didn’t prevent this muttering, since it was forbidden by the rules, and he told the organizers that Tal should be thrown out of the tournament.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

In February, Dad got the letter from the Government forbidding him from trying to grow anything indoors.

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix