proscribe
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A final deal should proscribe all tolls, mines and forced routes, restoring unrestricted free passage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
The judge said the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action “certainly does not proscribe any particular classroom speech, or relate at all to curricular choices.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2026
One of the group's members, Saeed Taji Farouky, told the BBC on Saturday that government plans to proscribe the group were "absurd".
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2025
Senior MPs in the UK have been calling on the government to proscribe Wagner for months.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2023
My blood boils, when I think, that they have dared, in the face of nations, to proscribe without trial the thousands of Frenchmen, who are marching with us: is this known to the army?"—"
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon
County’s requirements will go beyond what the state proscribes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2021
When arguments concludeed, it seemed inevitable that the court would agree with the EEOC, reject the DOJ’s wackadoodle theories, and find that Title VII already proscribes anti-gay employment discrimination.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2017
The state now recognizes those practices as likely to produce false identifications and proscribes them in a law passed with bipartisan support this year.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2010
The challenged provision, however, proscribes persuasion in a public place, speech that unwilling listeners can walk away from.
From Washington Post
Luckily, he has been living in an age which respects independent thought and proscribes the conscience of no man.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
Most "arrests have been for expressing support for a proscribed organisation", the police said in a post on X.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
The move was declared unlawful by the High Court in February, but the group has remained proscribed.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
X's second commitment is to withhold UK access to accounts reported for posting UK illegal terrorist content, if it determines they are operated by, or on behalf of, a terrorist organisation proscribed in the UK.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
She said the group was "particularly encouraged" by the commitment to take action against accounts operated by or on behalf of terrorist organisations proscribed in the UK.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Malcolm spoke like a man who was free, like a black man above the laws that proscribed our imagination.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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But stewarding that authority demands humility and faith in the university’s distinct role in cultivating debate—neither proscribing questions nor prescribing answers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
In another post, he retweeted a link to an article on Bari Weiss’ conservative news site, The Free Press, proscribing a “fix” for children using their phones.
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2024
Yes, according to the UK government, which is why they are proscribing it.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2023
Because of constitutional constraints proscribing Japan from providing Ukraine lethal weapons, Sato said Kishida’s trip was “a minimum requirement” for the chair of the G-7.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
Soon he was proscribing parts of salutations and signatures and leaving the text untouched.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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