What is "prohibits"

Usage examples of "prohibits".

The Official Secrets Act prohibits the publication of almost any document or fact that the government chooses to conceal, from crimes by M16 to educational statistics.

It explicitly prohibits hyperlinking to the database contents as "unfair extraction".

They claimed that Oprah and Howard Lyman violated a Texas statute that prohibits the false disparagement of perishable food products.

And even though federal law prohibits the sale of soft drinks in schools until lunch periods begin, in some overcrowded schools “lunch” begins in midmorning.

This new nation of Palestine must then present a Constitution that not only prohibits any form of aggression against Israel but also guarantees full democratic rights to every Palestinian man, woman, and child.

The club of Pontarlier,[22] from the first, prohibits its members from using the common forms of politeness.

Corneille prohibits any tax to be levied for the public treasury on the wages of manual labor, because nature, and not society, gives us the "right to live.

One of the regulations prohibits, indeed, any mark of approval or disapproval, "but it is violated every day, and nobody is ever punished for this delinquency.

The government prohibits airlines from searching more than two Arabs per flight, so it would be terrific if liberals would let us examine their financial statements.

As Markey explains, the law prohibits agencies from promoting any "film presentation designed to support or defeat legislation pending before the Congress.

People like me hate the government because of the things it prohibits - earning money, flushing toilets, owning and developing property, and engaging in political speech - not because the government isn't good at it.

Where a nation imposes high duties on our productions, or prohibits them altogether, it may be proper for us to do the same by theirs.

Nay, the law, rightly interpreted, even prohibits suicide, where it says, "Thou shalt not kill.

That’s the squishy stuff corporations use to ooze around US law which, you may be surprised to learn, prohibits any donations to presidential campaigns in the general election.

This is only partly the result of unwise, restrictive, legislation which prohibits data vendors from stepping on each others' toes.