forbidding

Example Sentences

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Beijing retaliated by forbidding Chinese companies from ordering Boeing jets -- or receiving those already ordered.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

They worked to exclude religious schools anyway by forbidding participants from discriminating based on religion, sexual orientation or gender identity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

He saw no signs forbidding parking where he pulled over, and the curb was not, by all appearances, painted red, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

A government notice said junta chief Min Aung Hlaing ordered releases of more than 7,300 prisoners convicted under legislation forbidding "financing of terrorism" and harbouring or arranging transport for "any terrorist group".

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026

And yet, in the bright sun of morning, the Institute didn’t seem such a forbidding place, not as menacing as they’d imagined; in fact the whole island was rather lovely.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart