debar

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

“Sexual orientation does not debar anyone from God’s love,” it said in a statement in March.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2015

This means a drab middle course, of small heroics, which yet does not debar from a quiet sympathy and mutual understanding.

From The Broken Gate A Novel by Emerson Hough

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

To find a chamber whose occupant is invisible debars you forever from obtaining the proof that you have found it.

From Beyond by Henry Seward Hubbard

"Not much; mainly that the manner of your nomination debars his printing your name at the head of his editorial page."

From The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther

Ill-health,—to name no other cause,—sometimes positively debars one from this relation.

From The Young Maiden by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey

It is a false modesty which debars the youth of our land from obtaining such information.

From The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

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

Catholics, meanwhile, had been deliberately debarred from Parliament by the oath, which involved recognising that the monarch rather than the Pope was in charge of the Church.

From BBC ● May 20, 2015

Private Morris debarred our passage with his arm.

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

He chose a surer, safer revenge in taking no steps to procure a divorce, and so debarring Ralph from his only means of atonement—marriage with his victim.

From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence

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 Mayne Reid

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

From Daniel Defoe by William Minto

His parents were Roman Catholics, and to this faith the poet adhered, thus debarring himself from public office and employment.

From An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope

For we like to keep our coin up to our own standard, debarring no man from making better for himself.

From The Hymns of Martin Luther Set to their original melodies; with an English version by Leonard Woolsey Bacon