(v. t.) To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; -- with from, and sometimes with of.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nature of surrogacy and required legislation is explored in this context, and it is argued that surrogacy should be subject to essentially the same regulation as adoption, thus debarring commercialization but without legislative intervention into the area of private reproductive behaviour.
(2) In anesthetized cats, whose peripheral muscarinic-cholinorecptors are blocked by m-cholinolytics (benzilyl choline) failing to penetrate into the brain, the cholinesterases reactivator diethyxime debars the centrally caused fall of the arterial pressure produced by armine, an inhibitor of cholinesterases readily gaining access into the brain.
(3) He said he wanted to see the rules on government campaigning in the referendum relaxed, arguing that the proposed rules were so restrictive that he might be debarred during the campaign period from even making a prime ministerial statement to the Commons after a meeting of the European Council.
(4) Labour, like the government, has said it would ban exclusivity clauses that would debar employees on zero-hours contracts from working for other companies.
(5) He has backed Wada’s call for Russia to be banned from athletics, saying: “Now for the first time we have the situation that Russia could be debarred from Olympics.
(6) Ucatt is unhappy with the scheme, pointing out that anyone accepting compensation has to drop all other legal claims and is debarred from speaking about what happened to them.
(7) Oligarch deadline Fugitive oligarch Mukhtar Ablyazov, the former head of BTA Bank who is accused of embezzling $5bn (£3bn) from the Kazakh lender, is under pressure to turn himself in or risk being debarred from defending himself against fraud claims.
(8) The CofE has refused to countenance any form of official liturgical recognition for civil partnerships; has sought special exemptions from human rights and equalities legislation in order to continue discriminating against openly gay clergy or gay employees; has repeatedly restated its condemnation of all sexual relations outside heterosexual marriage; and has formally debarred even celibate gay clergy from becoming bishops.
(9) In May, Mr Justice Lewison threw out an action at the Royal Courts of Justice brought by Baron Mereworth, who maintains that it his hereditary entitlement to attend the Lords, despite the House of Lords Act 1999 debarring all but 92 of the 650 hereditary peers, including his late father Lord Oranmore and Browne.
(10) With this procedure a successful solution is provided for those cases that were debarred from endourological surgery because the tutor catheter was unable to pass.
(11) Guarded by snipers and sniffer dogs in a hangar that is described as a “sanctuary”, debarred to anyone without security clearance, Air Force One is a symptom of the privileged exclusivity that Trump the populist pretends to despise.
(12) The debate about the cost of journals is made difficult by the fact that there are wide variations across the industry, and of course competition issues debar any collaboration.
(13) But Mandelson adds Labour general secretary Iain McNicol should make his first priority to ensure unions and other third parties are debarred from paying any individual's party membership, which the party says allows the union additional muscle.
(14) Jones's clarification implies that he believes the chief purpose of marriage is procreation, and therefore gay people should be debarred, apparently ignoring the many married hetrosexual couples who do not have children.
(15) Maude said it would be "ridiculous" to debar companies whose employees are related to ministers after criticism over the Cabinet Office paying the legal firm that employs Miriam González Durántez £88,000 this year.
(16) It took two elections (he was again debarred) and three years, but he won.
(17) Some US-owned communications companies believe they are being put under conflicting legal pressures with their British-based firms being handed UK warrants to divulge data secretly that US law debars them from doing.
(18) There have been early scandals, too: one of her colleagues lined up for ministerial promotion was debarred after it emerged he had links with a member of a motorcycle gang.
(19) This effective debarring of women from the legislative process is more than an "embarrassment", it is profoundly undemocratic.
(20) This would therefore suggest that in a proven and recovered case of barotrauma it should not necessarily debar further diving activity.
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.