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Prohibited in sentence

205 examples of Prohibited in a sentence

Only by ignoring the Convention’s strict definitions can one describe the US intervention as “illegal,” and even then it is not clear under what law it would be prohibited.
Importantly, although interest is prohibited under Islamic finance, profit is not; the latter is derived from various arrangements that combine finance and enterprise.
In reality, by purchasing large volumes of government bonds, the ECB was crossing the Rubicon; after all, it is explicitly prohibited from financing governments.
Some signatories, including certain Pacific island states, have declared their huge exclusive economic zones to be shark sanctuaries and have established areas where all fishing is prohibited.
And Medicare – one of the largest procurers, which provides coverage to those over the age of 65 – is prohibited from negotiating prices.
Deprived of legal capacity, he was prohibited from acting independently, or at all, in most areas of life.
If the US is to make its financial weaponry an effective foreign-policy tool, big banks cannot blithely proceed to do what US authorities have prohibited.
Similarly, a taboo against using poisonous gases in warfare developed after World War I, and the 1925 Geneva Protocol prohibited the use of chemical and biological weapons.
Two treaties in the 1970s prohibited the production and stockpiling of such weapons, creating a cost not only for their use, but also for their very possession.
As the EBRD acknowledged in February, the SNRIU is now prohibited from taking the lead in conducting safety inspections, which is in breach of the EBRD loan agreement conditionality.
In particular, slavery was allowed in some states, but prohibited in others, and the 1787 compromise to count each slave as three-fifths of a person when determining a state’s population for representation and taxation was fraying.
To discriminate against or stigmatize anyone on account of their genetic characteristics is prohibited.
If insurance companies outside Germany are permitted to require genetic tests while German companies are prohibited from doing so, then people who know they have life-shortening genetic diagnoses will get their life insurance from German insurance companies.
Nepal’s vibrant FM radio stations – once models for decentralized public-service broadcasting and community radio – have been prohibited from broadcasting current affairs.
The free-trade zone regulates foreign investment by using a “negative list” approach that identifies the fields in which foreign investment is prohibited or restricted, and thus subject to special administrative measures.
Empress Maria Theresa prohibited belief in vampires and ordered a thorough examination of possible natural reasons for such unusual events, as well as the actual causes of death.
The leaders of Belarus or Kazakhstan seemed equally surprised by Putin’s statement, especially as Russia had just prohibited almost all imports of dairy products from Belarus in a protectionist ploy.
For most of the nineteenth century and well into the Cold War era, re-election of a sitting president was generally prohibited in the great majority of Latin American countries, owing to a general fear of leaders remaining permanently in power, abetted by the prevalence of electoral fraud.
Before having completed a year in office, Fernando Lugo, President of Paraguay, declared himself in favor of presidential re-election, currently prohibited in his country.
It argues that, under the German constitution, the ECB is prohibited from making any decisions that impose potential liabilities on German taxpayers, because it is not subject to German parliamentary control.
By Roman times, the seas were open to all, with personal possession and partitioning prohibited.
Less than four years later, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s newly elected government passed the Glass-Steagall Act, which prohibited commercial banks from trading securities with clients’ deposits.
In January 2013, keeping breeding sows in individual stalls will also be prohibited.
He decried immigration and denounced the Race Relations Act of 1968, which prohibited discrimination in housing, employment, and lending.
If PETA is not allowed to state its case against our abuse of animals in the way that they judge best, because doing so might offend some people, then criticism of religion could also be prohibited on the same grounds.
While authoritarian countries like China and Russia seek “information security,” including the kind of overt censorship that would be prohibited in countries like the United States, Western democracies pursue “cyber security.”
In this sense, the European Central Bank is the quintessentially independent central bank: No single government stands behind it, and it is expressly prohibited from standing behind any of the national governments whose central bank it is.
The first prohibited the use of words or expressions likely to disrupt public order; the second was the law against libel.
And there seems to be a clear intention in many Arab countries to allow unrestricted polygamy, for example, even where it was prohibited prior to the Arab Spring.
When drugs are prohibited but some athletes use them anyway the playing field tilts in favor of the cheater.
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