prohibition
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It is debating lifting the prohibition on conscripts serving outside Sweden.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 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
His decision, which blocks the Texas attorney general from enforcing the law, noted that the prohibition was “an unconstitutional restriction on speech.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
These tariffs were set at 12.5% for countries without any formal prohibition on forced labor imports, and 10% for all other countries with such a prohibition.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
During the previous decade, the government had silenced most of the radical press, and there remained a prohibition on publishing the words or pictures of any banned or imprisoned individuals.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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Mazariegos said homeless prevention starts with enforcing a “huge list” of the city’s tenant rights laws, including rent control and prohibitions against landlords harassing tenants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
"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
In ancient Athens many prohibitions of consumption in order to allow the productive capital to first attain a certain height.
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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The Great Depression and The New Deal
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