Forbidden
in sentence
243 examples of Forbidden in a sentence
In the original telling, Pandora was not some innocent girl who succumbed to the temptation to open a
forbidden
jar.
For example, in a 2002 Virginia case, the high court ruled that the execution of the mentally retarded is
forbidden
by the American Constitution as "cruel and unusual punishment."
That is why, in Mexico today, little boys (and not little girls) are subjected to hormonal and psychological treatment, are removed from mixed schools, and are
forbidden
to play with girls, all in an effort to prevent them from turning out homosexual.
Those who submitted had their passports withdrawn, lost their jobs, and were
forbidden
to speak to the press.
He also won the backing of a small group of extremist rabbis who declared that selling or renting apartments to non-Jews is
forbidden
and treasonous (one of the rabbis is under investigation for these and other statements).
Most important, while state subsidies in all other sectors are forbidden, they are commonly accepted in banking – not only explicit subsidies, such as Germany’s bailout of several Landesbanks after the American subprime-mortgage crisis, but implicit subsidies as well.
It is not only
forbidden
to express reservations about Kim’s divine status; staying alive requires regularly proclaiming one’s devotion.
Back then, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had
forbidden
Khatami to speak with the Americans.
With photographs of the board strictly forbidden, records last only as long as they are on it.
Under the Obama-Volcker proposals, commercial banks would be
forbidden
to engage in proprietary trading – trading on their own account – and from owning hedge funds and private-equity firms.
Berlusconi's interest is clear: he wants someone he can call and ask to look after Italy's interests - be it a
forbidden
government loan to Alitalia or some other favor.
They could not avoid talking about poverty, but inequality became an almost
forbidden
topic.
According to a law that dates back to the French Revolution, and reconfirmed in 1978, French government officials are
forbidden
to collect information about a citizen’s ethnic or racial origins, whether real or alleged, when conducting a census or other efforts to gathering statistical information on the population.
It distinguishes between anonymous files from random samples and established for scientific purposes, which may contain data about a person’s origins, and files that are not anonymous, which have direct consequences for the people concerned – and for which it is strictly
forbidden
to register any information about ethnic origins.
Others are looking for violations of certain symmetries that could enable normally
forbidden
particle decays, unexplained noise in gravitational wave detectors, or inexplicable loss of quantum coherence.
It is no accident that some of the worst pollution in the world occurred in the ex-Soviet bloc countries where protests were
forbidden.
In the former Soviet bloc, it was the poets, dramatists, cartoonists, and novelists whose works encoded
forbidden
themes of freedom, and who were targeted by the secret police.
Now the Chinese government has
forbidden
state-owned zoos from taking part in such cruelty.
The Guilt Fallacy confuses “guilt,” which is a legal concept, with the commission of a
forbidden
act.
Nigeria must confront years of anti-education propaganda generated by Boko Haram, whose name in the local Hausa dialect literally means, “Western education is forbidden.”
Its report (currently available only in German) begins with testimony from those in a
forbidden
relationship, particularly half-brothers and sisters who came to know each other only as adults.
But it’s much cheaper, although forbidden, to use the old equipment and refill them with CFC’s when needed than to buy new machines and use the more environmentally benign but more costly alternatives.
In most cases, the
forbidden
CFC’s have been labeled as permitted HFC’s (hydrogenfluorocarbons), but labels like “spray paint” and “lubricants” also have been used.
On December 17, just one day after the Peshawar massacre, yet another 100 children were kidnapped in Nigeria – allegedly by gunmen from Boko Haram, a terrorist group whose very name means “Western education is forbidden.”
And we know – or should know – that women in sweatshops around the world report being locked in and
forbidden
to use bathrooms for long periods, as well as sexual harassment, violent union-busting, and other forms of coercion.
The headscarf has also been
forbidden
in Turkey’s parliament.
Party membership was restored to purge survivors, and they received new jobs, but they were
forbidden
from discussing the horrors that they had endured.
For example, Italian naval forces were instructed to avoid the waters off the coast of Tripoli, and Spanish tanker aircraft were
forbidden
to refuel fighter jets.
Using bank credits to speculate in equity and housing markets is still mostly
forbidden.
Hu Jia’s charitable work is not facilitated by the local authorities, who bear some responsibility in this epidemic; moreover, with NGOs being
forbidden
in China, Hu Jia can act only by himself.
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