(n.) Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.
(n.) A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war.
(a.) Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade.
(v. t.) To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle.
(v. t.) To declare prohibited; to forbid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Russia has stepped up its battle against parmesan cheese, Danish bacon and other European delicacies, announcing it plans to incinerate contraband shipments on the border as soon as they are discovered.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Kasich wins Ohio primary: ‘The campaign goes on’ It’s a wonderful testament to today’s Republican party that you can measure a candidate’s credentials by the lack of contraband.
(3) The Ohio native suffered from PTSD and a traumatic brain injury, his lawyers say, and he had been drinking contraband alcohol and snorting Valium – both provided by other soldiers – the night of the killings.
(4) The type and quantity of drug, its container, and the hiding place modify the potential toxicity of the contraband drug.
(5) A hotline has been set up for concerned citizens to anonymously report sightings of contraband cheese and other products.
(6) It’s not the first time remote-control helicopters have been used to smuggle contraband into prisons.
(7) Black drivers were stopped and searched significantly more often than white drivers in Ferguson, the report found, despite black drivers being less likely to be carrying contraband.
(8) For example, the report found that inmate on inmate assaults were 28% higher in contract prisons, and confiscation of contraband mobile phones occurred eight times more.
(9) Contraband is being delivered to upper cells in Pentonville prison in London by drone.
(10) And while black and brown New Yorkers are stopped exponentially more often , the NYPD’s own data “demonstrate slightly higher rates of contraband yield” from white people than Hispanics or blacks.
(11) "Like all others who come with him he will be strip-searched, photographed, fingerprinted, showered, placed on a bodily orifice scanner to ensure he is not concealing contraband, before being issued with prison clothing and a prison number and then left to consider his future in a reception cubicle holding around 20 others.
(12) Its military operation is designed to prevent kidnappings of foreigners by pirates and extremists and to drive al-Shabaab from its main base, the port city of Kismayo, a smuggling point for weapons and contraband.
(13) Hubert Géant, the director of police at the national office of hunting and wild fauna, said: "The contraband from wild animals has become the most lucrative criminal activity after drugs, fake money and the trafficking of human beings.
(14) NT police have issued 62 infringement notices to people with contraband fireworks in the last year.
(15) The United States Customs Service policies the borders of the country for smuggling of contraband, sometimes accomplished within body cavities.
(16) Classic narcocorridos with names like 'Contrabando y Traicion' (Contraband and Treachery) and 'La Pista Secreta' (The Secret Landing Strip) - are the most popular, although Jose Angel claims that prison has soured his taste for dope songs.
(17) In Ferguson, as in New York, black citizens are also far more likely to be stopped by cops , even though the Attorney General’s office reports that “whites are actually more likely to have contraband”.
(18) "Through the disposal of contraband ivory, we seek to formally demonstrate to the world our determination to eliminate all forms of illegal trade in ivory," said President Mwai Kibaki.
(19) Government’s routinely destroy other contraband, ivory should be no different.
(20) The guards were even more astonished to find in the middle of the stash of contraband a small, lightweight object, with propellers attached.
Prohibit
Definition:
(v. t.) To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, and also the doing of the thing; as, the law prohibits men from stealing, or it prohibits stealing.
(v. t.) To hinder; to debar; to prevent; to preclude.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(2) This study sought to determine if and why barriers to the over-the-counter purchase of syringes in the St. Louis metropolitan area might exist, given that no ordinance prohibits such a sale there.
(3) The absence of uniform definitions prevents meaningful intersystem comparisons, prohibits explorations of hypotheses about effective interventions, and interferes with the efforts of quality assurance.
(4) "The Texas attorney general's office will continue to defend the Texas legislature's decision to prohibit abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving taxpayer dollars through the Women's Health Program."
(5) However, when public disquiet at the crime and social damage caused by alcohol prohibition led to its repeal, Anslinger saw his position as being in danger.
(6) In the Proposition 8 legal action, the supreme court could decide: • There is a constitutional right, under the equal protection clauses, for gay couples to wed, in which case the laws in 30 states prohibiting same-sex marriages are overturned.
(7) Cities and counties across the US have also passed laws that prohibit such performances from occurring within their boundaries.
(8) 'There is no reason why start-up costs should be prohibitive; you just need to work with what you have,' Hosking says.
(9) Rather, the regulatory signals conveyed by immobilized ECM molecules depend on the density at which they are presented and thus, on their ability to either prohibit or support cell spreading.
(10) A nearby sign warns that the lake and its environs are a protected natural area, where building is prohibited.
(11) After oral contraceptives containing high levels of estrogen were prohibited in Denmark, a telephone survey of 23 doctors was taken to determine the fluctuation in demand for medical information from patients, and the reason for the fluctuation.
(12) He pointed out that the eighth amendment of the US constitution “prohibits the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain through torture, barbarous methods, or methods resulting in a lingering death”.
(13) The first state to outlaw alcohol entirely was, not surprisingly, a Protestant stronghold, the New England state of Maine, which introduced Prohibition in 1851.
(14) His stringent bail conditions prohibited him from visiting the family home, and even Saltdean itself.
(15) Tracing the historical forces which shaped the prohibition policies in both the countries and their apparent lack of success, the paper identifies some common elements.
(16) I think we can realistically put back what we had 25 or 30 years ago.” However, the engineering projects are prohibitively expensive.
(17) Results indicate that calculation times are probably prohibitive on current microcomputer platforms.
(18) The right has failed to show any critical thinking over private power and the way it prohibits democratic accountability.
(19) At present, the toxicity of most IL-2 regimens is severe and prohibitive for clinicians not intimately familiar with the myriad of side effects associated with its use.
(20) Those who were used to travelling abroad have already had to scale back as the rouble made the cost of visiting foreign cities prohibitive; and rising food prices have made it harder to balance the books for many families.