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Example sentences for "prohibition"

Lexicographically close words:
prohibet; prohibit; prohibite; prohibited; prohibiting; prohibitionist; prohibitions; prohibitive; prohibitory; prohibits
  1. The German Embassy here has certainly been taking great pains to put it about that the prohibition to export horses has been decreed solely from economical, and not from military motives.

  2. A duty equal to a prohibition was laid on those goods.

  3. James, the first Duke of Ormonde, whose memory should ever be revered by every friend of Ireland, to heal the wound that this country had received by the prohibition of the export of her cattle to England, obtained from Charles II.

  4. The consequences of the prohibition appear in the session of 1713.

  5. Five years were suffered to elapse before any opportunity was given to apply a remedy to the many evils which such a prohibition must necessarily have occasioned.

  6. A prohibition is a writ or court order which legally restrains someone from doing some particular action.

  7. This prohibition guarantees a fair trial and means that an individual is "not guilty" until proven "guilty" of violating some law or constitutional provision.

  8. In 1914, the General Assembly voted for a state-wide law providing for the prohibition of liquor.

  9. The sacred law of Jehovah has prescribed no such prohibition to us.

  10. The object of this prohibition is probably the encouragement of the stuffs manufactured at Lha-Ssa.

  11. Also the power of the clergy, combined with the brewer, was sufficient to put through Parliament a provision that no prohibition legislation should ever be passed without providing for compensation to the owners of the industry.

  12. This rash and iniquitous prohibition excited great commotion among his subjects.

  13. At a later time the prohibition of flesh was more strict.

  14. But the Brahmans could not carry out the prohibition either of hunting or eating flesh.

  15. I have no doubt from what I have been told that the power of the Saloon League lobby had to be smashed, and that the men who accomplished it deserve the highest praise, but can anyone truly say the Prohibition law is kept?

  16. I find Prohibition a fruitful topic of discussion.

  17. M145) In the first place we may observe that the awful sanctity of kings naturally leads to a prohibition to touch their sacred persons.

  18. Hence in Polynesia we find the same systematic prohibition to utter the names of chiefs or of common words resembling them which we have already met with in Zululand and Madagascar.

  19. The reason for this prohibition was perhaps as follows.

  20. M154 The prohibition to pass under a trellised vine is probably based on the idea that the juice of the grape is the blood or spirit of the vine.

  21. Now that prohibition is coming into effect, we are told that we are now confronted by a vice more terrible, far more deteriorating and dangerous.

  22. It was in 1907 that China began her great fight against the opium evil, and enacted stringent laws for its prohibition on Chinese soil.

  23. The official observation is that "whatever may have been the origin and the earlier developments of caste, this prohibition of mixed marriages stands forth now as its essential and most prominent characteristic.

  24. The sentence refers to the influence of the fashion of the higher castes in regard to child marriage and prohibition of the marriage of widows.

  25. The prohibition of the marriage of widows has already been referred to as bound up with caste ideas of marriage and with social standing, and as the most deeply rooted part of the social inferiority of women.

  26. The Report of the Census of India, 1901, takes a gloomy view regarding the province of Bengal, the most forward in many respects, but the most backward in respect of child-marriage and prohibition of the marriage of widows.

  27. Sidenote: Prohibition of the marriage of widows.

  28. The principles upon which the prohibition of books rested were set forth in ten rules.

  29. The prohibition of usury, and the doctrine that every article had a just or natural price, barred the road of the early entrepreneur.

  30. Coupled with it were other measures, including the prohibition to subjects to attend foreign universities, intended to put a check on free trade in ideas.

  31. The draft for a bull they presented for this purpose was rejected by the Consistory, but some of their recommendations, such as the prohibition of the Roman clergy to visit taverns, theaters and gambling dens, were adopted.

  32. Thus there is little doubt that the prohibition of the sacred cow in India has been the means of preserving that animal from extermination in times of famine.

  33. Some taboos are simply artful, as the prohibition of boats to South Pacific women, lest they should escape to other islands.

  34. In the Jewish Church no one under the age of thirty was permitted to read the Song of Songs, a prohibition which may have assisted to give it its sacred character.

  35. The term taboo implies something sacred, reserved, prohibited by supernatural agents, the breaking of which prohibition will be visited by supernatural punishment.

  36. But the article of food most required in the island is flour, while the importation of it is made so unreasonably expensive as to amount to a positive prohibition upon the article.

  37. It did not keep them out certainly, for they were admitted in the teeth of it; but so long as that sessional order was in force, prohibition to strangers was the theory.

  38. After Elizabeth’s seizure of Spanish property the prohibition against English trade was extended to Spain and the Netherlands.

  39. And since in order to be saved it is man's duty to hope in God, he had to be induced to do so by one of the above ways, affirmatively, so to speak, wherein is implied the prohibition of the opposite.

  40. Further, to prescribe an act of virtue is equivalent to a prohibition of the act of the opposite vice.

  41. This is a prohibition against going with whores, whose vileness is venial.

  42. Hence the prohibition of false evidence by the precept of the decalogue is expressed in this form when it is said (Ex.

  43. Religious worship is shown to one whose testimony is invoked by oath: hence the prohibition (Ex.

  44. Eggs and milk foods are forbidden to those who fast, for as much as they originate from animals that provide us with flesh: wherefore the prohibition of flesh meat takes precedence of the prohibition of eggs and milk foods.

  45. Wherefore the precepts of the decalogue include a special prohibition of adultery, not only as committed in deed, but also as desired in thought.

  46. Therefore it is unsuitable for the Divine Law to contain none but negative precepts in prohibition of fear.

  47. Some of God's effects, however, are contrary to an inordinate will, such as the infliction of punishment, and the prohibition of sin by the Divine Law.

  48. However, this prohibition ceased under the New Law.

  49. The direct object of their prohibition is the consent of the will, which is directed to deed or pleasure.

  50. But considered in their effects, they may regard the love of God or of our neighbor: and in this respect the decalogue contains precepts that relate to the prohibition of the effects of the vices opposed to the parts of temperance.

  51. All guile and fraud committed in matters of injustice, can be understood to be forbidden in the prohibition of calumny (Lev.

  52. But the Law contains no prohibition against presumption.

  53. The prohibition of the practice of paying the wages of workmen at public-houses, or any other place where intoxicating drinks are sold.

  54. The equally absolute prohibition of all distillation of ardent spirits from grain.

  55. In the second year of this reign such a duty was placed upon spirits as to be nearly tantamount to a prohibition of their retail sale.

  56. The prohibition of the sale of cognac and champagne is all that the army needs.

  57. Absolute prohibition for the army in France would be well nigh impossible.

  58. He had never voted the prohibition ticket and rheumatism was only one of his ailments, but he hopped right on the kid who said he was tired.

  59. In fact prohibition could not be enforced unless our soldiers were ordered never to venture within four walls.

  60. Oh, do lift her up and restore her to the proud place she once occupied before these prohibition fanatics got her by the throat.

  61. Some of these papers (however incredulous they may be about prohibition prohibiting) are disposed to try it upon Chinese immigration.

  62. A campaign in behalf of prohibition would have a hard time in the region of Macon.

  63. During the recent campaign on the liquor question in Atlanta these gentlemen were on opposite sides, so that the papers reported that while Mr. Grady was making a speech in behalf of prohibition in one part of the town, Capt.

  64. A colored preacher who made anti-prohibition speeches, referring to a statement that their meetings were not opened with prayer, said that he would make as good a prayer as anybody.

  65. The natives formerly cultivated it largely [and since the removal of the strict prohibition on its culture fields are not uncommon].


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prohibition" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arrest; ban; bar; barring; blockade; boycott; check; circumscription; constraint; contraband; control; curb; curtailment; deceleration; demarcation; denial; embargo; exception; exclusion; foreclosure; forestalling; halt; hindrance; index; inhibition; injunction; interdict; law; lockout; monopoly; narrowing; omission; prevention; prohibition; proscription; protection; rationing; refusal; rein; rejection; repression; repudiation; restriction; retardation; retrenchment; statute; stay; stop; stoppage; suppression; taboo; temperance; veto; zoning