debar

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

From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2024

The agency also is seeking to debar the company’s principal officer, Dick Cattani.

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

To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

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

"He," says Montaigne, "who analyzes all the circumstances which have brought about matters, and all the consequences which have been derived from them, debars himself from having any choice, and remains skeptical."

From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Sir Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry) Jerningham

Do you imagine that the colour of my cloth debars me from—from taking the part of a lady whose name has been dragged before the public?

From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan

They are peevish at home, and malevolent abroad; and, as the outlaws of human nature, make it their business and their pleasure to disturb that society which debars them from its privileges.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford

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

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

The U.N. suspended work with Glocoms in 2013 after a reporter informed it that the World Bank had debarred the company.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2016

For this doctrine, as may be presumed, he was debarred from all preaching.

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

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

The State commits an injustice in debarring a woman from the rights of a citizen because she chooses, over and above them, to perform the good works of a saint.

From Women and Politics by Charles Kingsley

May 30.—Prynne continued, in subsequent pamphlets, to attack the Rumpers for the wrong done to him and the other secluded members in still debarring them from their seats.

From The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by David Masson

They and their employers hated and feared La Salle, who, sustained as he was by the Governor, might set at nought the prohibition of the king, debarring him from traffic with these tribes.

From France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 by Francis Parkman