prohibitory

Example Sentences

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In the following years, Cherian was arrested several times for violating prohibitory orders and participating in protests.

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2022

“From this alone, it would seem to follow that Texas’s laws fall on the regulatory rather than prohibitory side of the line — and thus may not be applied on tribal lands,” he added.

From Washington Times • Jun. 15, 2022

A prohibitory sign "Attention! State border of Ukraine. Pass prohibited" is on display at the Senkivka checkpoint near the border with Belarus and Russia in the Chernihiv region, Ukraine February 16, 2022.

From Reuters • Feb. 25, 2022

We had a productive email exchange in which we both agreed that Godwin’s Law should be taken less as prohibitory than as cautionary.

From Slate • Aug. 25, 2014

The cost of the family in the house would be about 18s. weekly; and yet the expenditure in the rural Union, where the "prohibitory order" is in force, has been reduced.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various