(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.
Proscription
Definition:
(n.) The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile; outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription.
(n.) The state of being proscribed; denunciation; interdiction; prohibition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Still, I like to believe that these small-scale ventures, too, make some contribution to a conversation without limits or proscriptions; the sine qua non of the sort of society that knows to keep the solemn and the pious at bay.
(2) I am asking you to confirm that you believe members of the Socialist party and the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty should not be allowed to be members of the Labour party, given the proscription of these two groups [then called Militant and Socialist Organiser] by annual conference during Neil Kinnock’s leadership.” A spokesman for Corbyn responded to Watson’s claims: “It’s absolute fantasy and, if this is the way they want to characterise new Labour party members, then it’s not going to do them any favours in the leadership contest.” He added that the party’s policy on refusing to allow members of other parties to join Labour had not changed.
(3) The study's findings may show the effects of a generalized moral value framework in which one large portion of the nation's population, especially females, is subject to pervasive proscriptions of behavioral, including their drinking and sexuality, while others vary in the freedom they find to drink and be sexual.
(4) Extremism banning orders: these will be aimed at “extremist groups that fall short of existing terrorist proscription thresholds”.
(5) For many comics, it is received wisdom that this proscription existed, and that it was a bad thing.
(6) An example is the modelling of state anti-bikie laws upon the anti-terrorism proscription and control order regimes.
(7) The home secretary, Theresa May, said last week that banning orders for extremist groups would be considered again – even if they "fall short of the legal threshold for terrorist proscription" – alongside powers to stop radical preachers.
(8) The states were divided into quartiles based on normative constraints surrounding alcohol use from proscriptive to permissive.
(9) Instead, such alcohol-related problems appear to be a response to the strong cultural disapproval of drinking, with the proscriptively oriented states experiencing the highest rates of disruptive behaviors related to alcohol.
(10) Ethical choices often reflect personal values as well as professional role proscriptions and are difficult to resolve for a number of reasons.
(11) Too many seem to acquire a stylized professionalism replete with general labels, questionable theories, and unfortunate proscriptions.
(12) Normative constraints on drinking were measured by a multi-indicator proscriptive norms index based on religious composition and legal impediments to the purchase and consumption of alcohol.
(13) Prescription came out as perscription or proscription 20% of the time.
(14) The penalties for proscription offences can be a maximum of 10 years in prison or a £5,000 fine.
(15) Today, many of their countrymen and women absurdly proclaim that the legal proscription of homosexuality is an authentic expression of indigenous national culture and tradition.
(16) And where that has failed, the government has shown itself all too willing to step in with proscriptive legislation.
(17) The most proscriptive states are located in the southern region of the United States.
(18) Implementation of good work practices and proscription of use of the 2 pesticide formulations most contaminated with isomalathion halted the epidemic in September.
(19) Although Seventh-day Adventists do not smoke by church proscription, many are adult converts who smoked cigarettes prior to their baptism into the church.
(20) Physiology and emotional experience were studied in the Minangkabau of West Sumatra, a matrilineal, Moslem, agrarian culture with strong proscriptions against public displays of negative emotion.