debar

It is relatively rare for HHS to debar an NIH grantee.

From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2024

The effort to debar Restaurant Associates stems from its July agreement, and that of subcontractor Personnel Plus, to provide $1,008,302 in back pay to 674 workers.

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

Surely it is not necessary to debar me from the humblest felon's privilege—that of defence before condemnation.'

From The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation by Rolf Boldrewood

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

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

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

The problems of expense debars most colleges from establishing museums of art; but with a modest annual appropriation a working collection can be gradually gathered together.

From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper

A competent knowledge of English grammar is also in itself a valuable attainment, which is within the easy reach of many young persons whose situation in life debars them from the pursuit of general literature.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

It is a false modesty which debars the youth of our land from obtaining such information.

From The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

Ancient women were debarred from holding power but sometimes did so from behind the scenes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

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 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

Private Morris debarred our passage with his arm.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

For we like to keep our coin up to our own standard, debarring no man from making better for himself.

From The Hymns of Martin Luther Set to their original melodies; with an English version by Leonard Woolsey Bacon

Also your honour writeth of the debarring of your merchants at the sea port from their accustomed libertie of enterchangeable trafficke and bartar.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 by Richard Hakluyt

He chose a surer, safer revenge in taking no steps to procure a divorce, and so debarring Ralph from his only means of atonement—marriage with his victim.

From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence

When the Athenian law debarring all but freemen from the exercise of art was enacted, Creon was at work trying to realize in marble the vision his soul had created.

From Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life by Orison Swett Marden

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