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View definitions for prohibiting

prohibiting

adjective as in repressive

adjective as in restraining

adjective as in withholding

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They prevailed last August, obtaining—follow me here—an injunction prohibiting the enforcement of those provisions.

That gays (and other liberals) should choose Canadian oil because Canada “has no laws prohibiting LGBT lifestyle.”

And if he is re-elected, the House advisory rules prohibiting him from voting no longer apply.

Until the late 1960s, more than half of the U.S. states had laws on the books prohibiting women from tending bar.

As we all know, it requires Congress not to make any law “prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

On November 22, he issued a proclamation prohibiting the importation of provisions from England.

Earlier in 1651, Parliament had passed a law prohibiting foreign vessels from trading with the American colonists.

Origen, Ambrose, and Augustine unite in prohibiting the representation of the Deity by any material object.

By prohibiting the manufacture of starch the Government has done something to please Mr. Pemberton-Billing.

If they say the Territorial question—now, for the first time, there is no act of Congress prohibiting slavery anywhere.

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On this page you'll find 43 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to prohibiting, such as: excessive, exorbitant, preposterous, steep, expensive, and extortionate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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