prohibitionist

Example Sentences

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The Senators owner, a prohibitionist through and through, made things harder on himself by subsisting without a source of revenue that other teams availed themselves of.

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2023

Most of the shops are to be operated by people of color who had been incarcerated by prohibitionist laws.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2023

The disease notion, however, obscures those facts and narrows our view to counterproductive criminal responses, like harsh prohibitionist crackdowns.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2022

Allegations of a secret prohibitionist government agenda were fuelled last year when former state premier Mick Baird posted an impassioned defence of the lockouts on Facebook.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2017

They did not seem to exist, he points out, even in politics until prohibitionist fury threatened their beer.

From An Englishman Looks at the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)