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

What! debar Your wounded knight, in this wild barren spot, From the sunshine of those heavenly orbs.

From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III by M. Y. Halidom (pseud. Dryasdust)

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

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

She therefore repeated her remark slowly and in precisely the same words and tone— “I hope that there is no consideration as to health which debars you from this very desirable exercise, Mr Riddell?”

From The Willoughby Captains by Talbot Baines Reed

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

Yet, alas! one trifling deficiency ruins his prospects; he has an impediment in his speech, which debars him from the use of the W’s.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 18, 1841 by Various

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

Career employees, meanwhile, have faced warning letters, reprimands, suspensions without pay and, in extreme cases, been fired and debarred from returning to government.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2020

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

If I did, no doubt, by the same parental authority, my epistle would be intercepted—still further compromising her—still further debarring the chance of a reconciliation with her father!

From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid

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

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

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

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