proscription
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Opening a three-day defence of the home secretary's proscription of the group, barristers told the Court of Appeal on Tuesday that overturning it would limit ministers' counter-terrorism powers.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
Thousands of people have been arrested since the proscription came into force, with their prosecutions now thrown into doubt.
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026
His written submissions to the court added: "The suffragettes would have been liable to proscription if the Terrorism Act 2000 regime had been in force at the turn of the 20th century."
From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025
The High Court ruled on 30 July that proscription of the group, which has carried out break-ins at defence firms linked to Israel as part of direct action protests, should be reviewed.
From BBC • Aug. 7, 2025
By the passing of the act of proscription the door was shut against me in my own country, where I own it would have been my wish to have ended my days.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.
Vocabulary lists containing proscription
Academic and Literary Vocabulary and Vocabulary from Readings 1, Unit 4
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Novel Study: Julius Caesar, Acts 4–5
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