How To Use Forbid In A Sentence

Siva's devotees are forbidden to use drugs of abuse, such as cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, barbiturates, psychedelics and marijuana, unless prescribed by a licensed physician.
Oh, it's fine for her to waste food on a level I can only describe as sinful but God forbid we should be wasting light bulbs or toilet paper.
That is, the Olympian Zeus 'ban on human creativity: which shows Zeus's intended bestialization of all mortal human individuals, by forbidding, not only the use, but the discovery of any universal physical principle, such as "fire," or, today, nuclear-fission power. LaRouche's Latest
I do not of course mean, Heaven forbid! that people should try to converse seriously; that results in the worst kind of dreariness, in feeling, as Stevenson said, that one has the brain of a sheep and the eyes of a boiled codfish. From a College Window
Advertising was forbidden, and the idea that one master guildsman might produce a better product than his colleagues was regarded as treasonable. The Worldly Philosophers

This was the case that upheld a Washington law that gave academic scholarships to qualified students, but forbid them from using them to study theology.
For men, halfhearted comb-overs, plugs, weaves, and toupees are strictly forbidden and will be cause for harsh disciplinary action.
I. iii.21 (405,9) He shall live a man forbid] Mr. Theobald has very justly explained _forbid_ by _accursed_, but without giving any reason of his interpretation. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
Elroy is surprised to learn that the gardens are not fables but space stations that orbit the Earth and are run by a much-feared Lord, who seeks out Wiggles for taking the forbidden fruit - an apple, natch. 4/06 UPDATE: My New Year's Resolution
But, more likely, he has decided it is less of a PR risk to leave a journalist eating a solitary crab pasty in the drizzle than to be trapped alone with her and - God forbid - a tongue-loosening bottle of wine.
The distributed mass of ricocheting impulses which form the foundation of intelligence forbid deterministic results for a given starting point.
The opening is not such a problem, it's the vast forbidding swoop of the gaping door itself. Times, Sunday Times
In general terms, what we're talking about here is a situation where A and B have a contract or agreement to which C is not a party, whereafter B and C engage in activitity forbidden to B by their contract ot agrement with A, giving rise to the question of whether A has any claim against C. "An act of adultery between the defendant and the spouse of the plaintiff..."
Any band activity would supposedly disturb his equilibrium so he is forbidden to leave the house and is watched round the clock. Times, Sunday Times
An unspecified surfer from the USA came by via Yahoo looking for "gisele lindley" -- Ms. Lindley was the daring and lovely actress who played Princess in Oingo Boingo's misbegotten Forbidden Zone movie. View from the Northern Border
Even though most such oxen are used for plowing, which is forbidden in the Sabbatical year, it is not unusual for someone to buy an ox for its meat.
She still did lip service to the old ways, while herself nibbling away at forbidden fruit.
They are in forbidding, hostile territory.
Enjoin beneficence and forbid malevolence: so shalt thou be loved of The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Jewish law forbids the use of the name of the holy rabbi for profit.
Many theologians hold that these attributes are metaphorical rather than real, since comparison of God to human beings is strictly forbidden due to fears of associationism.
It surely cannot happen since our laws specifically forbid it and anyone who chooses to come to live here must abide by our laws. The Sun
Any public activity that would require women to depart from this modest dress in mixed company is expressly forbidden.
Chiefs and headmen are important figures both in villages and nationally, although they are forbidden to be active in party politics.
The saint's reaction was instant and he heaped maledictions on the unfortunate salmon, forbidding it or any of its kind ever to enter the lake again.
He is forbidden, in fact, to be himself a good citizen; forbidden to be anything more than the colourless instrument of a system of compromise and countercheck. Irish Books and Irish People
It surely cannot happen since our laws specifically forbid it and anyone who chooses to come to live here must abide by our laws. The Sun
Material possessions and the means of measuring them by reference to groats, shillings or florins were forbidden in the Holy Parish.
Complex analysis of the international tale of the hero or heroine who glimpses a forbidden sight and suffers for it.
How immensely impertinent is the prejudice that forbids so natural a use of money! why should the better half of a man's actions be always under the dominion of some prescriptive slavery; 'Tis hideous to think of. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
So Nur al-Din abode awhile, eating and drinking and making merry and bidding and forbidding those who tended the horses; and whoso neglected or failed to fodder those tied up in the stable wherein was his service, he would thrown down and beat with grievous beating and lay him by the legs in bilboes of iron. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
God forbid that I should diminish France! But amalgamating Napoleon with her is not diminishing her.
Check it every fifteen to twenty minutes, stirring and scraping the bottom of the pot to make sure the meat is not sticking or, God forbid, scorching.
Dramatics seem to have been part of a student's life early in the history of the University, surprisingly, because attendance at the theatre was forbidden.
Catholics are forbidden to join the Freemasons under pain of excommunication.
Their religion forbids them to drink or gamble.
Parliament has passed an Act forbidding the killing of rare animals.
The opening is not such a problem, it's the vast forbidding swoop of the gaping door itself. Times, Sunday Times
That Thoreau gave the impression of being what country folk call a crusty person -- curt and forbidding in manner -- seems pretty well established. The Last Harvest
Messrs. Frick and Gary, as set forth in the letter quoted above, to the effect that I did not deem it my duty to interfere, that is, to forbid the action which more than anything else in actual fact saved the situation. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography
God forbid that I should tell you to harden your hearts.
But how could he have, for he knew it was forbidden for a white wizard to make contact with a black sorcerer or sorcerers.
The bank will not lend money, and interest payments and receipts are forbidden.
All routes out have been blocked and the use of mobile phones forbidden. Times, Sunday Times
German law forbids the dumping of hazardous waste on German soil.
When a man forbids his wife to marry again without losing what he leaves -- it's what I call selfishness after death. Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures
If you want narrow dogma, how about the plight of a major political party in which being pro-life disqualifies you from seeking national office because special interests forbid it?
These musicians used their art to rebel against the communist regimes of their countries by composing religious music, then forbidden.
When eating the pizza, I forbid ketchup and mayonnaise at the table.
The patent alliance does not favor the market forbid too. Patent alliance:that is used to gain the monopoly profit.
The rights granted include the exclusive right to authorize or forbid leasing.
Once, I heard something scuffling inside one of the forbidden rooms, as if a cat or other animal was scratching their paws over the walls.
Opposition Members want us to forbid the use of that personal allowance, if only in part, for a particular purpose.
The policy, designed to leave families homeless, impoverished and traumatized, is illegal because international law forbids the demolition of houses by an occupying power.
Forbid welding the flange after installing the valve. Both sides of the flange should be added the asbestos gasket.
Does he mind, for example, being called, as he has, a 'bearded scenester' or even - heaven forbid - a hipster? Times, Sunday Times
My guess is this: Heaven forbid that you have a cancer right now.
Adding to the tenderness of this song, which, according to Marine Times, the high command has apparently forbidden Belile to record, is the fact that "hadji" is a racist term, the new slur for Arabs and Muslims, Iraq war vet Aiden Delgado explained on blackcommentator. com. Hadji Girl
he ignored his parents' forbiddance
Well, I'd had just enough to drink that I pulled her in close and began a slow seductive lambada - ‘the forbidden dance.’
Company ships were forbidden to carry opium, thus avoiding difficulties with the Canton authorities.
Interest on money is forbidden; the prohibition of usury is, indeed, as Roscher says, the centre of the whole canonistic system of economy, as well as the foundation of a great part of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
Eminent French aviator ordered to the ground and sent home for conspiring with unsavory babu to smuggle undesirables to Katmandu, which is forbidden territory! Jimgrim
Anjali not only endorsed Annika's decision to enter the forbidden PGA territory but supports creation of more invitational sporting events featuring women and men wherever possible to attract more public and media exposure for sport.
In fact, ancient sumptuary laws, explaining exactly what objects were forbidden by church and state, were read from the Anglican pulpit until the 1860s.
Sure Gaius allowed her the run of the manse and the property that surround it, but the nearby town was forbidden.
Now I have to buy the books to find out the forbidden secrets that have been hidden from mankind for thousands of years!
There was something a little severe and forbidding about her face.
Special lasers identify seismic faults in forbidding mountain ranges. Times, Sunday Times
The doctor forbids him to smoke.
Undoubtedly Ronald Dworkin will want to correct what seems like a clear error when he writes, "Only the most naïve theories of statutory construction could argue that such a result [forbidding action such as that taken by the University of California, Davis Medical School] is required by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Bakke Case: An Exchange
In Song Dynasty, people failed in trying to forbid the custom of cremate.
She disregarded the laws governing tavern hours, and stayed open late into the night, allowing her customers, some only in their teens, to drink and play the forbidden game of shovelboard, carousing loudly enough to disturb the neighbors' sleep. History of American Women
And heaven forbid we should think of our own interests in abundant supply instead of coddling the precious young lawyers! Matthew Yglesias » Too Many Lawyers, But Also Too Many Cartels
There is something forbidding about him. Times, Sunday Times
Sorbs were repeatedly forbidden to use their own language.
Ought not the renting of untenantable rooms, and the crowding of such numbers into a single room as must breed disease, and may infect a neighborhood, be as much forbidden as the importation of a pestilence? Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
They have put up signs making it clear motorcycling is forbidden.
In 1742, when the Qianlong Emperor had been on the throne for six years, he gave orders for a new palace and garden to be built in the north-east quarter of the Forbidden City.
If a large quantity of a given drink intoxicates, then a small quantity of that drink is forbidden.
It did not forbid the disinherison of direct descendants, inasmuch as it did not legislate against a contingency which no Roman lawgiver of that era could have contemplated. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society
Indeed, this entire area with the Egyptian and Hindu place names in the Grand Canyon is a forbidden zone - no one is allowed into this large area.
The interim order also forbids him from lighting fires on any land except for land that he legally owns by way of a title deed.
Imagine a particularly ascetic monastic order, whose rule not only enjoins chastity, but forbids sexual desire.
If we've ever had internal conflicts about cheating or wanting to cheat, had sexual longings for or experiences with someone of the same sex, imagined being with a prostitute or had pedophilic fantasies, watched porn or coveted a neighbor's husband or wife, we're going to be drawn -- in guilty fascination or fearful hostility -- to public disclosures of both forbidden sexual behavior and it's humiliating confession. Michael Bader, D.M.H.: Everything Said About Anthony Weiner Is Bull
Scotland, despite that forbidding losing margin, did finally find the performance we had been waiting for all season and Ireland looked unlikely championship material as their visitors got stuck in with scant regard to reputation.
There is, from the opening chords, a sense of hearing forbidden sounds, of entering into a spirit of resistance against the homogenisers of art.
Beijing's intervention is a textbook example of the beggar-thy-neighbor competitive devaluation forbidden by the International Monetary Fund's charter.
God forbid the extensive STD testing, including HIV testing, would prevent such diseased babybatter from making it into the pure womby tot-ovens of our mamacitas-to-be. Birthday Sperm « Skid Roche
My feelings in every respect forbid it.
I forbid you to try to gain custody and I would controvert personally any such application. MURKY SHALLOWS
It is forbidden to reprint any article from this magazine without special permission.
The death's-head, a forbiddingly charismatic insect with a distinctive skull pattern on its thorax, has been sighted along the south coast at Arne, Dorset, and in Plymouth, Devon, in what is proving to be a vintage autumn for exotic migratory moths. Indian summer sees exotic moths fly in
It has been forbidden to supply the English ships; but for plenty money it is done sometimes; but the finger must be placed upon the nose, and upon the two eyes what you call the guinea; and in six hours where are they? Springhaven
I obtained my own first copies of Mojica's films on bootleg videocassette, which is how all first generation American fans saw them: in poor quality and in Portuguese, a language we did not read or speak, which made them all the more dreamlike and exciting --like the discovery of something long forbidden. Zé do Caixao: The Nightmare That Must Survive
The symbolism of the pole decorated with ribbons and garlands was deeply offensive to the Puritans and maypoles were forbidden by Oliver Cromwell's parliament from 1644.
Thus it is that the growth of technical means tending to absolutism forbids the appearance of values and condemns to sterility our search for the ethical and the spiritual.
Fishing in this pond is forbidden; penalty $5.
But here we are forbidden to walk shodden over sacred ground and details of the cruise must be confined to generalities; otherwise the travels of the celebrated Gulliver would be eclipsed, Baron Munchausen lose his claim to veracity, and the shade of the venerable Miller slink back to its original punishment. Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas
Sex was always a forbidden topic.
He wants to come here? Heaven forbid!
Together with his friend Nisha, Anand embarks on what may be his most dangerous missiontraveling tothe cold and forbidding worldof Shadowlandin his attemptto restore the conch to its rightful place, and his home to its original splendor. Shadowland by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Book summary
Forbidden were men to draw nigh the plant, yet weaker were their still young and innocent minds to words of deception.
Due to residues in the witloof chicory heads the use of insecticides is forbidden during forcing.
The idea that some Colonel Sanders type in a society that forbid slaves from reading would write to his former fieldhand and expect an intelligible reply is absurd. Rad Geek People's Daily
Does the television station forbid South Korea main current broadcasting concrete Chinese TV play content?
Fishing in this pond is forbidden; penalty $5.
Any violation is forbidden and punished severely if the hierarchy has the capability to defend its reign.
My staff are all highly trained in the Swedish technique and are strictly forbidden to cohabit with the customers. THE ENDLESS GAME
Ef Doctor Mac kin save Lou's life -- an 'he _kin_ -- yo'd be a murderer, -- yes, a murderer uv yo'r own flesh an' blood, ter forbid him. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
I spent the rest of the day, indeed much of the rest of the conference, buttonholing leading nuclear figures of this and other nations with that same forbidden question: what happens if deterrence fails and you have to decide whether to kill millions of innocent civilians because you threatened to? How the End Begins
Little deaf Antony thought of tobacco unlimited, a silver-mounted pipe, and plenty of unforbidden rum. Tropic Days
Jansenists that he had forbidden the brotherhood called Oratorian fathers to hear confessions, because he suspected them of a leaning to A Book of Golden Deeds
The new rules forbid drivers of commercial vehicles, including rescue tow trucks, from travelling more than 62 miles from their bases unless the vehicle is fitted with a tachograph – a device that monitors the number of hours spent on the road. Archive 2008-06-01
Remember that the Forbidden City closes about 5 pm and is very large.
If anyone really cared about the welfare of slugs and other creepy-crawlies, they would make the use of poisons mandatory, and forbid gardeners to keep nematode worms in their gardens.
Living in hotels, engaging in empty sexual encounters, silently and impassively taking in the world without responding very much to it, Anna is a mysterious and somewhat forbidding figure.
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Heaven forbid that anyone should have a free second or film frame devoid of musical accompaniment.
It is forbidden to reprint any article from this magazine without special permission.
I could feel the pulsing of veins that usually precedes entry into a forbidden, private realm.
The compound loomed in front of him, the cement walls austere and forbidding.
She claims that international laws forbid people from owning planets but not stars. The Sun
Ten thousand pounds! Heaven forbid! How is half sum to be repaid?
However hard a couple may try to import eroticism into the marriage, particularly in these days of sexual liberation, there is very little which can be done by two consenting adults which has the frisson of the forbidden.
God forbid that we should think for a nanosecond that he was driven by any thought of principle, ethics, humanity or compassion.
Othello seems to anticipate Freud's idea that a man marries in order to recover the lost mother who sent him out into the world some time ago; a forbidden, incestuous desire for the mother's body is transferred allowably onto another, younger woman. Shakespeare
However, some Hasidic Jews, an Orthodox sect, forbid the eating of these products.
forbid a doctor to have a love affair with a patient.
Alcohol is strictly forbidden on school premises.
We reach deep into the entombed secrets of our soul, dare to pull on those threads that originate in forbidden desires, and dance in disguise with the abandon of bacchantes. Nor certitude, nor peace
Jews are bound by a set of dietary laws called kashrut, which, among other restrictions, forbid the consumption of pork and shellfish, as well as the consumption of both meat and milk products at the same meal.
But White Fang, uncompanionable, solitary, morose, scarcely looking to right or left, redoubtable, forbidding of aspect, remote and alien, was accepted as an equal by his puzzled elders.
The forbiddance to disseminate information on how to deactivate copy protection measures, which goes against our freedom of speech. Boing Boing: September 25, 2005 - October 1, 2005 Archives
Flying kites has been forbidden in public parks and gardens throughout the city since the beginning of this month.
They never met again, for under the probationary terms they were forbidden to associate with each other.
Lack of space forbids further discussion at this point.
Brazil says its constitution forbids the private ownership of energy assets.
But the political row is far more than a linguistic challenge about expressing love for the fatherland without using the forbidden phrase.
However, such victimisation is expressly forbidden by German industrial law.
Despite the forbiddance [prohibition] of Voice of America programming in Soviet countries, we still listened to Voice of America, putting ourselves and our families in real danger, he said. Remembering Willis Conover
At the same establishment the kitchen staff would get the front of house staff to sneak them cappucini and beers from the bar, which was strictly forbidden by the 'pubco' overlords. blaircooper 5 September 2011 11:36AM The Guardian World News
Perhaps that's why there is still something so deliciously forbidden about the idea for women like me. Times, Sunday Times
I felt that I had done something forbidden. Seminary Boy
However that Guo's surname is four elder brothers' persons, three sisters-in-law still a forbid are some is good.
You cannot forbid tweeting because that is a restriction on freedom of speech. The Sun
What we do know is that they dabble in forbidden magic, unlearned fools who wish for more power than they can handle.
The orphanage was in the ghetto of the city, below the levels that Anodramidaâ€ ™ s mother had forbidden her to visit when she was a podling. 365 tomorrows » 2006 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
A feeling which had most definitely not been reciprocated, she realised as she recalled with clarity the forbidding set of his shoulders as he had stridden away. Consultant Care
This installation is forbidden by system policy. Contact your system administrator.
She includes in her litany of blog dastardliness my argument that NPR is forbidding journalistic curiosity. Jeff Jarvis: NPR Blames Us for its Problems: Insane
In semiconductors, electron mobility is strongly reduced because there are forbidden regions for the energy of the electrons that take part in conduction, the "energy gaps". The Nobel Prizes in Physics 1901-2000
I have forbidden them to ring in but it seemed mean to ban them from watching it at all so they have been using up their TV allowance goggling at small creatures vying for our affections while cuddled to famous bosoms.
While she was dying of cancer[Sentencedict], his ex-wife's utmost curse was to forbid Erica from ever giving him a coveted pot roast recipe.
Drama, horror, Brookside omnibuses, even, God forbid, a Disney weepie, all of these beckon before I'll reach for The Nutty Professor.
Disobeying the 19th-century "rule" laid down at Le Cercle de Linguistique de Paris (forbidding the presentation of any paper dealing with the origin of language), Waldron presents a theory, that is at once logical, biological, and psychological, showing how language naturally emerges from its prelinguistic antecedents (perceptual and behavioral) to become the key factor in the development of a distinctively human kind of intelligence and thought. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 2
She passed several salutary laws, one forbidding polygamy, another abolishing human sacrifices; her treaties with the Portuguese she faithfully observed, but never would acknowledge their supremacy -- never would allow herself to be called the vassal of any power. God's image in ebony : being a series of biographical sketches, facts, anecdotes, etc., demonstrative of the mental powers and intellectual capacities of the Negro race, by edited
He started Baptist church school at the age of eight, in a forbidding Victorian grey brick building.
forbidding thunderclouds
Siva's devotees are forbidden to use drugs of abuse, such as cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, barbiturates, psychedelics and marijuana, unless prescribed by a licensed physician.
My guess is this: Heaven forbid that you have a cancer right now.
Germany was also forbidden to unite with Austria to form one superstate, in an attempt to keep her economic potential to a minimum.
The draft law forbids wearing clothes that cover the face in public. The Sun
But now that she'd been forbidden to go to the class she had Tuesdays free. CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 9: THROUGH THE VEIL
The rule is so stern that all delight in mere incidental beauty, which painting often triumphs in, is wholly forbidden to sculpture; -- for instance, in _painting_ the branch of a tree, you may rightly represent and enjoy the lichens and moss on it, but a sculptor must not touch one of them: they are inessential to the tree's life, -- he must give the flow and bending of the branch only, else he does not enough "see Pallas" in it. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
She is a horrible person and why anybody likes her or, gods forbid, admires her is beyond me.
But this last is precisely what Mr Lawson has long wanted to do and the Prime Minister absolutely forbidden.
The researchers call this the "forbidden fruit hypothesis, " based upon previous research that has demonstrated that people find things more desirable when they off-limits or forbidden.
We sailed past the island's rather dark and forbidding cliffs.
No, they don't do Oasis covers - heaven forbid - but the pummelling volume took my lugholes back to that school hall in 1994.
A plural marriage is forbidden by many countries.
He seated himself — unforbidden this time — on the ottoman by her side. The Moonstone
In the absence of the Chinese official the abbot of the lamasery was almost supreme in authority, but my desire to personally interview him did not prevail against the stringent laws forbidding women to enter the lamasery except once, annually, for the purpose of worship; so my conferences were carried on through my Mongol friend, for such he assuredly proved himself to be. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
The very word harem, the section of the house where the women dwell in Arabic, hareem, is derived from haram, forbidden. Nomad
For me a town was a mysterious, rather forbidding place and I was afraid that I would feel very much alone.
I was telling him of my head; he said he had been ill of the same disorder, and by all means forbid me bohea tea, which, he said, always gave it him; and that Dr. Radcliffe said it was very bad. The Journal to Stella
The despotic monarchs of Spain forbid the exploring of any new gold or silver mines without the express permission of government, and they have ordered several rich ones to be shut up as not equal to the cost of working. Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification
Any band activity would supposedly disturb his equilibrium so he is forbidden to leave the house and is watched round the clock. Times, Sunday Times
Not in chambering and wantonness; not in any of those lusts of the flesh, those works of darkness, which are forbidden in the seventh commandment. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
The Constitution forbids the enaction of laws contrary to Islam, it does not mandate the passage of laws demanded by Islam.
For the codpiece is the principal and most especial piece of armour that a warrior doth carry; and therefore do I maintain even to the fire (exclusively, understand you me), that no Turks can properly be said to be armed men, in regard that codpieces are by their law forbidden to be worn. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Toy or replica guns, cutlery, razor blades and knives of any length are forbidden.
The law forbids the sale of cigarettes to people under the age of 16.
It was with not a little nostalgia that I responded to similar saliva-inducing twittering last week, emanating from inside the forbidding walls of the Smithsonian Institution.
Only Madame Hayle was allowed to do that, and the parson's wife, being quite without madame's art of doing as she pleased, had had to submit conscience and compassions to the captain's forbiddal, repeated by the commodore and Hugh. Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi
It were as if thoughts shared whilst freewheeling down a country lane existed for just those few shameless moments, then could be thrown away, to decay in the hedgerows like the discarded cores of forbidden fruit.
Therefore, one should not say a blessing over any forbidden or stolen food, since this is not a blessing but a blasphemy.
This statute forbids certain intimate sexual activity, even in private and even for married couples.
The Central Propaganda Department and the Provincial Party Propaganda Department have issued orders to forbid you from reporting this.
Homicide and verbicide -- that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life -- are alike forbidden. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
We forbid the sale of goods made from endangered species such as elephants and rhino.
The solution was a clause forbidding the government from acting in a manner inconsistent with the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.
The feat of getting so many men across the forbidden mountain range which separates the west coast of Chile from the jungle on the east was reminiscent of Hannibal's crossing of the Alps.
Post Office rules forbid employees to accept tips.
There are rumours that certain golf companies forbid dating if it involves an employee from a competitor.
In our house that was the one forbidden phrase, far worse than any swear word.
Angry mums and dads say the council is a killjoy for putting up signs forbidding ball games on a green between Overbrook and Bevisland.
Themes of kids at play and sinister, forbidding landscapes remain, processed through a computer and enhanced by found sounds and distorted, provocatively repetitive tone patterns.
It was a fabled street, but for him it had been forbidden territory.
PERIMETER COMMAND NORTHERN ARMY GROUP Unauthorized egress from the Perimeter Zone is strictly forbidden. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR

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