barred
Example Sentences
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He later backed the new president's decision to support gay marriage, comparing the situation to the earlier struggle against laws in the country that had barred interracial marriage.
From BBC
He is constitutionally barred from seeking election in April.
From Barron's
If they succeed, participants would be barred from access to federally regulated event-contract markets.
Heraskevych was barred from the men's skeleton in Milan-Cortina earlier this week after he refused to stop wearing it and on Friday his appeal was denied.
From BBC
For almost 10 years, he said he was blacklisted by Chavez’s oil managers, who barred him from directly buying supplies from state energy monopoly PdVSA, forcing him to work through government-allied intermediaries to acquire asphalt.
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