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debar

[dih-bahr] / dɪˈbɑr /


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It is relatively rare for HHS to debar an NIH grantee.

From Science Magazine May 15, 2024

On Dec. 30, Labor announced a move to debar or prohibit any new federal contracts with Restaurant Associates.

From Washington Post Jan. 4, 2017

You would think that views like that might just debar you from holding that office, but no.

From BBC Nov. 8, 2015

The company said Thursday that it had “not been advised of the intention of any federal agency to suspend or debar the company in connection with the plea agreement.”

From New York Times Nov. 16, 2012

“That is true,” said Scott, “but it should not debar us from doing our duty.”

From Zula by Lindley, H. Esselstyn

The temptation to do this presses heavily on those whose occupations end with daylight and on those multitudes of elderly folk whose chief sorrow now is that age debars them from public service.

From Time Magazine Archive

The problems of expense debars most colleges from establishing museums of art; but with a modest annual appropriation a working collection can be gradually gathered together.

From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Klapper, Paul

He debars himself from such luxuries as betel-leaf and from visiting his wife.

From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)

Habsburg blood flows in their veins as it flows in you, the Heir Presumptive, but the Family Law debars them.

From The Secret Witness by Gibbs, George

They are peevish at home, and malevolent abroad; and, as the outlaws of human nature, make it their business and their pleasure to disturb that society which debars them from its privileges.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William

Horowitz criticized the government’s failure early on to use the “Do Not Pay” Treasury Department database, designed to keep government money from going to debarred contractors, fugitives, felons or people convicted of tax fraud.

From Seattle Times Jun. 11, 2023

The divorced, disgraced, and debarred physician was ready to come out of the shadows: He was an illegal abortionist and had been for more than 35 years and 25,000 procedures.

From Slate Jun. 15, 2022

Career employees, meanwhile, have faced warning letters, reprimands, suspensions without pay and, in extreme cases, been fired and debarred from returning to government.

From Washington Post Aug. 28, 2020

As a result the publisher has been added to the bank's "debarred list", which names and shames organisations found by the bank to have acted corruptly.

From The Guardian May 6, 2010

For this doctrine, as may be presumed, he was debarred from all preaching.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Depend upon my sincerity for this," Defoe answers, "that I am far from debarring you.

From Daniel Defoe by Minto, William

If I did, no doubt, by the same parental authority, my epistle would be intercepted—still further compromising her—still further debarring the chance of a reconciliation with her father!

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne

If you abide by it, you deny the Absolute and Infinite in the very act of affirming it, for, in debarring the First Cause from self-revelation, you impose a limit on its nature.

From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George

The State commits an injustice in debarring a woman from the rights of a citizen because she chooses, over and above them, to perform the good works of a saint.

From Women and Politics by Kingsley, Charles

"Why, what under the sun do you want, Happy?" she asked, going into her own room and debarring all the others whose curiosity was at the snapping point.

From Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home by Jackson, Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie)




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