prohibition
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Her remarks concerned the prospect of legal accountability, not a blanket prohibition on conservative participation in government.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
The San Francisco-based AI lab updated its usage policy to include "a prohibition on sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models."
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Treasury officials argue that the prohibition doesn’t apply to stock donations because account funds aren’t used to purchase the stock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
This included what was, in effect, a prohibition on them becoming MPs.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
People who take this prohibition seriously have gotten their grammar wrong.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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"The delegation will be under travel restrictions and will face prohibitions on the purchase of luxury and other goods per our policy. The delegation is smaller than last year."
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The ban will affect a small subset of industries but could be ruinous for those companies if the trade prohibitions go into effect in three weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
They really are totally uncontroversial, and both clauses were seen as, like, these original anti-corruption, anti-grifting prohibitions, and were largely just observed.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
The state also has widespread prohibitions on several rodenticide ingredients.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Here, also, belong prohibitions relating to the exportation of corn, which force considerable capital, etc. into industry.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher
Vocabulary lists containing prohibition
American History II
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"Tinker v. Des Moines": Excerpts from Justice Fortas's Opinion
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