(n.) The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.
(n.) Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages.
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.
Prohibitionist
Definition:
(n.) One who favors prohibitory duties on foreign goods in commerce; a protectionist.
(n.) One who favors the prohibition of the sale (or of the sale and manufacture) of alcoholic liquors as beverages.
Example Sentences:
(1) It serves prohibition and prohibition serves repression and repression serves abuses of human rights and negative impacts on human health.” Some Latin American countries, frustrated by what will be perceived as lack of progress at this month’s special session, may choose to issue their own minority report as a counter to the prohibitionist arguments advanced by the UN.
(2) Nutt himself has tried "a bit of cannabis, and speed once or twice", but the only drug he consumes now is alcohol, making him neither, as he keeps pointing out, a prohibitionist nor a hedonist.
(3) It opened with the salvo: "Prohibitionist policies based on eradication, interdiction and criminalisation of consumption simply haven't worked … The revision of US-inspired drug policies is urgent in the light of the rising levels of violence and corruption associated with narcotics."
(4) This announcement marks the first steps in a sensible return to realign funding, focus and efforts into moving away from a largely prohibitionist approach to the much more effective approach of harm minimisation.” The justice minister, Michael Keenan, said local police were working with intelligence and policy agencies in Mexico, Iran, China and other countries to stop the drug from entering the country and to arrest drug kingpins.
(5) In this particular controversy, 'prohibitionists' who wish to ban all such self-referral focus on the dangers that patients and payers may receive or be billed for unnecessary or poor-quality care.
(6) If the aim is to convince conservative prohibitionists that nitrous oxide is a legitimate leisure activity, this will not succeed.
(7) In both the earlier challenges to the status quo and the current attack on the criminalization of drug use, critics have stressed the counterproductive consequences of the prohibitionist ethos.
(8) Since pointing out this week that alcohol is more harmful than any other drug , I have been painted as an alcohol prohibitionist or, conversely, as someone who wants to legalise all drugs.
(9) She argues that trafficking is a “minuscule” part of the picture, and claims that concern about rising numbers of women trafficked into the country to work as prostitutes, is whipped up by “prohibitionist campaigners” who “conflate migrant sex workers with trafficking victims, to create a moral panic, and to justify their funding”.
(10) Then are the objections from the guardians of the prohibitionist status quo, the US and the UN drug agencies.
(11) National statutes, UN protocols and who knows how many luckless souls bolted up in cells round the world affirm that the old prohibitionist order has not collapsed.
(12) At the session the Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, will propose a more “human solution” to the drugs problem that aims to fight the root causes of the problem in all its stages rather than just focusing on enforcement and prohibitionist policies.
(13) Neither federal laws nor UN conventions of the old prohibitionist order can stand in logic any longer.
(14) Colombian president: prohibitionist drug policies have been a 'failure' Read more Philpott, speaking on Wednesday at a special session of the UN general assembly in New York on drug problems around the world , said the Canadian law will ensure marijuana is kept away from children and will keep criminals from profiting from its sale.
(15) "In doing so, Uruguay will be bravely taking a leading role in establishing and testing a compelling alternative to the prohibitionist paradigm."
(16) Looking to 2016, when the UN is due to hold a meeting to discuss potential reform of its prohibitionist drug conventions, Clegg states: "The UN drug conventions badly need revising.
(17) UN backs prohibitionist drug policies despite call for more 'humane solution' Read more Speaking after a United Nations policy summit voted to maintain its support for prohibitionist drug policies , Santos told the Guardian: “Let me be clear with them: the prohibitionist approach has been a failure.” “It’s time to leave ideologies behind and embrace the evidence.
(18) In the end, the summit declaration called for greater cooperation between nations, but maintained the prohibitionist framework which criminalises all drug use that is not for medical or scientific purposes, and included no criticism of the death penalty for drug crimes.