(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.
Temperance
Definition:
(v. t.) Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.
(v. t.) Moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness.
(v. t.) State with regard to heat or cold; temperature.
Example Sentences:
(1) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
(2) No definite relationship could be established between the biochemical reactions and the flagellar antigens of the lysogenic strain and its temperate phage though some temperate phages released by E. coli O119:B14 strains with certain flagellar antigens did give specific lytic patterns and were serologically identical.
(3) It begins with the origins of treatment in the self-help temperance movement of the 1830s and 1840s and the founding of the first inebriate homes, tracing in the United States the transformation of these small, private, spiritually inclined programs into the medically dominated, quasipublic inebriate asylums of the late 19th century.
(4) A temperate phage was induced from exponential phase cells of Erwinia herbicola Y46 by treatment with mitomycin C. The phage was purified by single plaque isolation, and produced in bulk by successive cultivation in young cultures of E. herbicola Y 178.
(5) A truncated form of the HBL murein hydrolase, encoded by the temperate bacteriophage HB-3, was cloned in a pUC-derivative and translated in Escherichia coli using AUC as start codon, as confirmed by biochemical, immunological, and N-terminal analyses.
(6) Group II (21%) included virulent and temperate phages with small isometric heads.
(7) Diagnostic methods which reveal only the presence or absence of Ostertagia in grazing animals are of little importance since all will acquire some degree of infection when grazed in the temperate regions of the world.
(8) Recently, methods have been developed to distinguish between human and animal faecal pollution in temperate climates.
(9) The recent enthusiasm for the combined Collis-Belsey operation should be tempered by continued, cautious, objective assessment of its long-term results.
(10) These differences in susceptibility are due, in part, to immunity imposed by temperate phages carried by the different strains.
(11) Therefore, production of turimycin is not controlled by the isolated temperate phage.
(12) On at least three independent occasions a 1.6 kb segment of Streptomyces coelicolor DNA was detected in apparently the same location in an attP-deleted derivative of the temperate phage phiC31 that carried a selectable viomycin resistance gene.
(13) These results indicated that gender tempers the effect of family type on adolescent adjustment.
(14) However, its use must be tempered with an appreciation of the limitations of the new technique and knowledge of the circumstances in which it may yield erroneous results.
(15) The infection of Bacillus thuringiensis, B. cereus, B. mesentericus and B. polymyxa strains with temperate E. coli bacteriophage Mu cts62 integrated into plasmid RP4 under conditions of conjugative transfer is shown possible.
(16) As newer techniques are developed, it is mandatory that the application of these techniques be tempered with controlled clinical trials, documenting their effectiveness.
(17) Such lesions are quite common in subtropical and tropical climates, and a review of the literature indicates that the incidence of this formerly rare entity is increasing in temperate climates.
(18) Calculated values of residual compressive stress for tempered specimens were considerably higher than those for specimens that were slowly cooled and those that were cooled by free convection.
(19) Three sedentary men underwent a 3-mo period of endurance training in a temperate climate, (dry bulb temperature (Tdb): 18 degrees C) and had their sweating sensitivity measured before and after the training period.
(20) This level of susceptibility is higher than that found in most temperate countries and mainland populations, and similar to descriptions in a few island and rural populations in the tropics.