(a.) Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.
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.
Menacing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Menace
Example Sentences:
(1) The menace we’re facing – and I say we, because no one is spared – is embodied by the hooded men who are ravaging the cradle of civilization.
(2) But when in mid-October two of the artists received death threats, the menaces were widely reported and rekindled debate, prompting vicious, anti-Muslim comments on Danish talk shows.
(3) We will together face the terrorist menace,” said Jean-Claude Juncker , president of the European commission, whose headquarters lie just a few hundred metres from the metro.
(4) Aneurysmal occlusion with an extrafocal shunt can allow one-stage surgery when aneurysm and neoplasm are equally menacing.
(5) It is a gripping read from the opening, with the Ku Klux Klan menacing his pregnant mother, through to the troubled last months of his life: we follow Malcolm Little, common thief, on his journey to Malcolm X , inspirational leader.
(6) After her release, she confirmed that she had been pressured by threats and menaces to confess to criminal acts that she had never perpetrated.
(7) Although chronic total coronary occlusions are no clinical menace in contrast to stenoses, they frequently deserve revascularization and are the reason to select bypass surgery over angioplasty.
(8) Zimmerman was charged with an offence of sending by public communication network an offensive, indecent, obscene, menacing message or matter.
(9) The former Conservative chief whip Andrew Mitchell was a Jekyll and Hyde character who employed a mixture of charm and menace, his libel trial against the Sun newspaper over the Plebgate affair heard.
(10) The family member was one of five men executed by Isis in the terror group’s latest propaganda video, shot in the head as they submitted to their tormentors while a new English-speaking frontman made menacing threats to Britain.
(11) The bill should authorize stiff fines for unruly dog behavior – to include noise violations from sustained barking and lunging – and misdemeanor criminal penalties for menacing waitstaff and patrons.
(12) Maged understands better than most the menace of coastal erosion, which is steadily ingesting the edge of Egypt in some places at an astonishing rate of almost 100m a year.
(13) Now the focus seems to be on new geographic menaces rather than new technological ones.
(14) Authorities were preparing for a "worst-case scenario" on Thursday as a blaze dubbed the "Springs fire" menaced the 101 freeway along Camarillo, a city in Ventura County, and raced towards the coast.
(15) But if you do, yet still allow your editors to use inciteful over insightful language, then far from standing up for Britain, you're a menace against all things that make it great.
(16) The club’s new president, Bruno de Carvalho, has denounced as a “menace” and “monster” the funds to whom majority stakes in almost the club’s entire squad were sold before he was elected in March 2013 and he vowed to end the practice.
(17) 2.32pm BST Blimey... Tom Williams (@tomwfootball) Menacing sight en route to the Maracanã.
(18) It's an extraordinary, sprawling world, powered by magic and steampunk technology, populated by humans, cactus-people, insectoid, amphibian and avian races, dripping with myths and monsters and menaced by repressive regimes.
(19) For days, BBC reporters on the spot repeated the words panic, threat and menace by the hour.
(20) (A little later, I watch director Foley ask a genially menacing professor Capaldi to lift, and lift, and lift, the needle from a record in, I think it was, 12 different ways, to get it just so; I think "stickler" is fair.)