(v. t.) To command against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to interdict.
(v. t.) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command; to command not to enter.
(v. t.) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command; as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army.
(v. t.) To accurse; to blast.
(v. t.) To defy; to challenge.
(v. i.) To utter a prohibition; to prevent; to hinder.
Example Sentences:
(1) It said the move was illegal and violated its charter, which forbids police from entering the building without the presence of a union official,.
(2) But while the public is convinced it doesn’t go far enough, the major parties have actually resisted most calls for greater scrutiny – independent oversight or, heaven forbid, a federal version of Icac .
(3) Government officials meeting and discussing policy with private interests in secret, or representatives of other governments, is a violation of the Logan Act," he said, referring to a federal law first passed in 1799 that forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments.
(4) Islam forbids alcohol and many Islamists consider the remarks unacceptable.
(5) It gave a good aerial view of the place: the fake trees, the sign forbidding adults from entering the photo tent without a child, the costumed staff.
(6) God forbid they would actually be "brave" enough to schedule two women co-presenting a show – an immediate turn-off, clearly.
(7) Government restrictions, instituted in 2006, forbid the export of raw teff grain, only allowing shipments of injera and other processed products.
(8) Almost all decisions with regard to allowing or forbidding research with and on the embryo as well as any other diagnostic invasion into the embryo depend on what kind and range of protection human life in this early stage of its development is or should be entitled to.
(9) The SABC has also been accused of sidelining Zuma's rival Julius Malema, forbidding terms such as "Nkandlagate" or "Zumaville" to describe the president's home and even banning an animated advert that showed Zuma dining on fish and chips .
(10) A court injunction forbidding their removal from Australian territorial waters remained in place last night.
(11) The latter investigation may reveal anomalies of the vertebral artery that can hinder of forbid the pedicular fixation.
(12) We also know from our experience that the other part of the job, that means putting everything on the desk, can be a painful experience, but that it is absolutely necessary to do this, as we have seen from our own history.” Bach also pointed to the strict new bidding rules for candidate cities introduced in the wake of Salt Lake City, forbidding them from visiting voting members.
(13) We need to create an environment where girls are actually equal, but this is going to take some time.” Last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government launched its national campaign to address the sex ratio in Haryana with a renewed focus on enforcing laws that forbid sex-selection abortion and diagnostic techniques that are used for female foeticide.
(14) Read more The eastern state of Bihar this week took the unprecedented step of forbidding any cooking between 9am and 6pm, after accidental fires exacerbated by dry, hot and windy weather swept through shantytowns and thatched-roof houses in villages and killed 79 people.
(15) Poland has legislation in place forbidding the marketing of all GM seeds.
(16) The laws of the reserve forbid the hunting of endangered species, especially elephants and okapi, and the exploitation of its gold reserves.
(17) The state forbids women from attending sporting matches, and Ghavami chose to challenge this injustice.
(18) The "logic" was extended to specific practices in preparing foods, eating of foods on special days, the use of food in curing certain diseases, and forbidding foods at certain times.
(19) American law forbids foreign-controlled ownership of nuclear facilities, barring major investment from abroad.
(20) Much as liberal Democrats may prefer President Sanders to President Clinton, the latter is certainly far more desirable than President Bush, President Walker or, heaven forbid, President Trump.
Proscribe
Definition:
(v. t.) To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents.
(v. t.) To denounce and condemn; to interdict; to prohibit; as, the Puritans proscribed theaters.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ethical standards are a set of affirmative responsibilities to which the investigator must subscribe; behavior that is incompatible with these responsibilities should be presumed unethical, whether or not it is explicitly proscribed.
(2) Furthermore, in America there is a tendency to proscribe estrogens alone in high dosages for menopausal treatment over long periods of time.
(3) Like the UAE, some other Gulf states, Israel and Russia, Riyadh proscribes the Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation.
(4) Since pregnancy is proscribed for 2 to 3 months following rubella vaccination, a full range of family-planning services and a variety of contraceptive methods were used to ensure sustained fertility control.
(5) Even some who admit that they share Blair's view of the Brotherhood as an extremist organisation say that does not mean endorsing repressive methods to crush it, as have been used in Egypt, where it has been proscribed.
(6) So serious is western concern at the prospect of Iranian-backed Hezbollah , proscribed by the US and Israel as a terrorist organisation, taking power that Obama sent his vice-president, Joe Biden, to Beirut last week to bolster Washington-friendly parties.
(7) Wilders, who is being prosecuted in Amsterdam on charges of inciting hatred and discrimination, is portraying himself as the protector of Dutch welfare, while calling for a tax on Islamic headscarves, a ban on the Qur'an, closure of Islamic schools, deportation of immigrants and proscribing mosque-building.
(8) The new offence would criminalise a person entering or remaining in a “declared area” by the foreign affairs minister if they enter or remain in an area that has been proscribed.
(9) The group is already proscribed under two other names – al-Ghurabaa and the Saved Sect or the Saviour Sect.
(10) If, however, the person so affected believes that there is some problem, this matter will be legally reviewable, as we have said all along.” Asked what kind of conduct would be captured by the provision – such as whether it would be confined to taking up arms or whether it would also include financing and recruiting for terrorist groups – he said: “There will be a series of provisions in the legislation to specify the kind of conduct that is covered, but in broad terms, it is serious involvement with a terrorist group.” Abbott suggested the revocations would not necessarily affect all groups proscribed as terrorist organisations under Australian law.
(11) In this catch-all++ proscribed: "psycho-compartmental disorders of senescence".
(12) Medicare and third party insurance payers proscribe payment for research project care and always have.
(13) The Bundesbank has argued that a bond-buying programme would be tantamount to direct financing of governments, which is proscribed by the ECB's statutes.
(14) These findings demonstrate that almitrine medication, even at a high dose, does not have any deleterious effect on pulmonary vasculature in resting conditions, but prolonged submaximal exercise should be proscribed in patients on a long-term therapy.
(15) The SRE generated frequency of occurrence of items and life change magnitudes in five proscribed time intervals.
(16) Cruelty in the form of painful scientific experiments, including dissection of living, conscious animals, vivisection, was proscribed by the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876.
(17) Although al-Nusra has changed its name, both the US and Russia believe the group has retained its links to al-Qaida, and must therefore be regarded as a proscribed group.
(18) The winner stands to be responsible for ushering in the reform plans which partly proscribe the role, greatly restricting it from the freewheeling influence Blatter and his predecessor and mentor, the Brazilian João Havelange, wielded for a combined 41 years, after Havelange’s election in 1974 and Blatter’s in 1998.
(19) On that basis competitive sport was not proscribed.
(20) A comparison of information from these two sources showed, among other things, that residents were generally reluctant to report drinking which was proscribed the the program.