(v. t.) To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens.
(v. t.) To banish from society; to put under the ban; to cast out from social, political, or private favor; as, he was ostracized by his former friends.
Example Sentences:
(1) Richard now is presented, albeit somewhat inconsistently, as evil in response to social ostracism because of his ugly deformities.
(2) The author argues that the expertise available from the specialty is of increasing importance to psychiatry as a whole, as more and more legal issues become relevant to the practice of general psychiatry, and should be actively encouraged and legitimized rather than ostracized.
(3) As the field of human genetics successfully continues to unravel the secrets of an individual's genetic makeup, the social processes of stigmatization and ostracism of those with "undesirable" traits have the potential to increase.
(4) An attempt is made to reveal the escalation of drug abuse in our community as a public health hazard, to initiate the concept of a team approach as the only way to provide early effective treatment, and also to develop preventive measures as the necessary alternative to ostracism and punishment.
(5) While service dogs are known to perform important tasks for people using wheelchairs, such as retrieving dropped items or pulling a wheelchair, they may also serve as an antidote for social ostracism.
(6) The social ostracism would be a very big deterrent," she said.
(7) They have suffered neglect and even ostracism for too long.
(8) Failure to conform to any or all of these constraints may result in professional ostracism or even loss of liberty.
(9) Abortion is many times requested not for ethical, economical or medical reasons, but to obey the rules imposed by a society that still ostracizes certain kinds of behavior.
(10) The consequences for qualified health professionals are well known: there are professional and personal risks — demotion, reprimand, referral to psychiatrists, pressure to resign, careers halted, victimisation, ostracism, exclusion and bullying, disillusionment, isolation and humiliation.
(11) The most frequent responses to AIDS have been scapegoating, resulting in ostracism, stigma, and blame; resignation; use of alternative therapies; political mobilization; and research.
(12) There should be clear consequences including professional ostracism for failing to meet these standards."
(13) Such international ostracism had a powerful effect on the ruling government, but elsewhere some campaigners began to voice concern that organisations were being unsophisticated in their activism, opting for a knee-jerk boycott in every instance and risking the public's goodwill.
(14) Right to work” undermines that union power because it allows workers to pay no dues at all, even in unionized workplaces, and face no penalties except being ostracized.
(15) Even those who condemn his remarks strike a word of caution over his ostracism.
(16) And this week he threw his support behind Riyadh’s diplomatic and commercial ostracism of Qatar , which almost alone among Gulf Arab states has tried to keep on good terms with Iran.
(17) Most of it is limited to publicly naming those workers, to ostracize them, and making snide comments.
(18) My friends would risk neighbourhood ostracism to protest at the unconstitutionality of Ten Commandments posters on classroom walls.
(19) Rejection and ostracism is common; women just have to pick up the pieces and rebuild their and their children's lives and often also rebuild their own communities.
(20) Leprosy deformities have been the cause of dehabilitation, destitution and social ostracism.
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.