prohibition

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A 1971 Supreme Court decision briefly loosened these prohibitions, before tightening them again.

From Salon

Baker is now advocating for the prohibition of bets on first-half spreads, which are at the center of the current point-shaving allegations.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Even though I had no prohibition on expanding Public, I don’t think that they really would have liked it,” Schrager said of Marriott.

From The Wall Street Journal

First, it agreed with the statute’s proponents that the act was best read as intended to override the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure’s prohibition on release of grand-jury material.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Along the security fence, there is a confiscation order and a prohibition on construction; therefore, the construction in the area was carried out unlawfully," it said.

From BBC