How To Use Forbidding In A Sentence
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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
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The opening is not such a problem, it's the vast forbidding swoop of the gaping door itself.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are in forbidding, hostile territory.
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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.
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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
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Parliament has passed an Act forbidding the killing of rare animals.
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The opening is not such a problem, it's the vast forbidding swoop of the gaping door itself.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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There was something a little severe and forbidding about her face.
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Special lasers identify seismic faults in forbidding mountain ranges.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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There is something forbidding about him.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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
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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
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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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The compound loomed in front of him, the cement walls austere and forbidding.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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He started Baptist church school at the age of eight, in a forbidding Victorian grey brick building.
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forbidding thunderclouds
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We sailed past the island's rather dark and forbidding cliffs.
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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
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For me a town was a mysterious, rather forbidding place and I was afraid that I would feel very much alone.
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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.
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The solution was a clause forbidding the government from acting in a manner inconsistent with the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.
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Angry mums and dads say the council is a killjoy for putting up signs forbidding ball games on a green between Overbrook and Bevisland.
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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.
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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
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During the 5th century BC, the Athenians organized what they called a purification law for the island, forbidding the burials of the dead on it.
American Chronicle
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Beam's overdubbed harmonies, delivered in a repetitive cadence, are spooky without being forbidding, bringing Low's early work to mind, if only in pace and tone.
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We sailed past the island's rather dark and forbidding cliffs.
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Will the Council proceed undaunted from the mild and conciliatory Article XI to the firmer Article XV or the forbidding Article XVI?
The Sino-Japanese Incident in Relation to the Problem of Disarmament and International Security
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I replied that, as he had treated us so scurvily, even forbidding his people to sell us any food, if he did not bring us a fowl and some eggs as part of his duty as a chief, he should receive no present from me.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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The trendy interior is quite chilly looking and a little forbidding, but the stylists are the absolute opposite - warm and relaxed.
Times, Sunday Times
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She is an ex-con who served nine months in the forbidding maximum security prison in Lexington, Kentucky.
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And then of course, there are the public ordinances forbidding off-key driveway serenades.
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Sunday dawned grey and forbidding as clouds hung low over Lough Talt, clinging ominously to the hilltops around the lake.
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The two brothers aren't larger than life myths sprung to life, but ordinary hunters attempting to provide for themselves and their families in a forbidding and hostile world.
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Thus, for example, where LU, in the story of the sons of Nechta Scene, simply mentions 'the withe that was on the pillar,' LL explains that the withe had been placed there by the sons of Nechta Scene (as Cuchulainn placed a similar with in the path of the Connaught host), with an ogam inscription forbidding any to pass without combat; hence its removal was an insult and a breach of _geis_.
Táin Bó Cúalnge. English
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A catch-all clause forbidding the award of the cup to anyone wearing a white shirt would be more sincere.
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Three miles offshore the mountains heave into view, stark and forbidding, reaching up to forested heights.
IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
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However, Germany has insisted it cannot bend its laws forbidding supplying evidence that could incriminate someone facing execution.
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Following a petition of some west-country weavers, an Act was passed in 1702 forbidding the payment of wages in truck.
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Pope Innocent thundered angrily in letters, specifically forbidding the Crusaders from attacking Zara.
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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
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NAMBLA has nothing to do with homosexual marriage: they are a pedophiliac organization, and have nothing to do with the basic injustice of forbidding same-sex couples tomarry.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges Against Anti-Homosexuality Street Preacher Dropped in England
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Article II does not grant the Executive unlimited authority to defend the nation in contravention of duly passed Congressional legislation forbidding specific behaviours
Matthew Yglesias » Leave Health Care to the States?
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Tall towers, exactly square and equally bare of carving or machicolation, stood at intervals along this forbidding defence and flanked its curtain.
The Path to Rome
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Forbidding the critic to prescribe is itself a prescription.
There's No Prescribing Prescriptivism
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Verbal testimony connected his great poem of farewell and consolation, for example, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (with its famous image of the couple as “stiffe twin compasses”) with Donne’s departure for France in 1611.
The Biographical Fallacy
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Together they constitute an unhackneyed commentary on a creative force who contrived to remain both forbidding and inescapable.
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The catted chimneys were of logs plastered with clay, or platted, that is, made of reeds and mortar; and as wood and hay were stacked in the streets, all the early towns suffered much from fires, and soon laws were passed forbidding the building of these unsafe chimneys; as brick was imported and made, and stone was quarried, there was certainly no need to use such danger-filled materials.
Home Life in Colonial Days
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The most concrete observation I have of my ungraceful exit was the sign on the gatepost forbidding the imbibing of alcoholic beverages in the park by penalty of five hundred pounds.
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The meanness surfaces as he becomes more successful - his moustache, initially the affectation of a hick, becomes minatory, even forbidding.
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She found that she could not think straight, for her mind kept returning to the forbidding trees - unfriendly reminders of the peaceful days of her childhood.
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So it seems only right and proper to squirm into a drysuit, don an aqualung and slip through a dark, forbidding hole in the frozen waters at Tignes-Le-Lac to avoid the blizzard conditions.
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So far am I from forbidding these officially to check the undue license of kings, that if they connive at kings when they tyrannise and insult over the humbler of the people, I affirm that their dissimulation is not free from nefarious perfidy, because they fraudulently betray the liberty of the people, while knowing that, by the ordinance of God, they are its appointed guardians.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Stamp Act
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Hoping for a miracle, they have come to the forbidding, fortresslike Peck Clinic, whose doctors claim to have “resurrected” other patients who were lost in the void.
Exploring the Noir and the Grotesque
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The pictures that mysteriously effloresced from the pixels were forbidding yet magnificent, and as they glowed from the machines the planet Mars seemed to enter the laboratory, and the enchanting speculations of the Italian Schiaparelli with his canali and the American Lowell with his canals vanished the way dew departs with morning sunlight.
Space
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Or from my Baptist upbringing, if during a business meeting (a meeting open to all members, usually after church, and with final authority on all matters dealing with the church) I had become upset enough to get the police involved, and was charged with and again plead guilty to a misdemeanor after consulting counsel, would the court approve forbidding me to practice my religion for the balance of mylife?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Seventh Circuit En Banc Argument in the Second Amendment / Violent Misdemeanants Case (Skoien)
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As a critique of U. S.-funded programs, however, it is narrowly focused, citing only two such initiatives as examples, and these in forbidding Kandahar and Helmand, home to the bulk of the insurgency.
Letters to the Editor
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It is a bleak, forbidding place on a windswept plain, surrounded by wire fencing and patrolled by armed guards.
Times, Sunday Times
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They will brave the most adverse conditions and penetrate the most forbidding terrain.
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W. S. Pringle, my old Oxford professor whose forbidding mien and stiff bearing earned him the nickname ‘Laughing John’, was mainly responsible for working out how halteres work.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
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Their homes are wretched hovels, their surroundings are forbidding and their minds are sunken in a kind of pauperism out of which it seems impossible to arouse them.
Country life in Georgia in the days of my youth,
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The Church reciprocated by forbidding membership in the Masons under pain of excommunication.
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But if you dress up the idea in a forbidding vocabulary, full of neologisms and recondite references to philosophy, then you may have a prescription for academic stardom.
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Looking north from the plateau, you will see in the endless twilight a forbidding light on the horizon.
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All of these windows were streaked with blinds, forbidding the light from entering what lay behind the stoic structure.
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“Gabriel the Faithful (on whom be peace!) descended with it from the Lord of the Worlds upon His Prophet Mohammed, Prince of the Apostles and Seal of the Prophets, by detached versets: bidding and forbidding, covenanting and comminating, and containing advices and instances in the course of twenty years as occasion called for it.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Classic gothic tale complete with governess heroine, malevolent atmosphere, and forbidding mansion.
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His face was forbidding, even hostile.
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I'd rather see a law forbidding the practice than trying to sort out ways to allow data sharing without my knowledge.
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The least human whisper in these subterraneans, dug out first four thousand years ago, revived ominous Powers that stalked beside him, forbidding and premonitive.
Four Weird Tales
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Instead, working with schools, a proper outreach strategy and well-funded inclusion programmes did more to bring hard-to-reach audiences through their forbidding porticoes.
We need to start charging for museums and galleries again | Tristram Hunt
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We learn also from St. Siricius that, after annulling the Council of Rimini, Liberius issued a decree forbidding the re-baptism of those baptized by Arians, which was being practiced by the Luciferian schismatics.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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We sailed past the island's rather dark and forbidding cliffs.
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Until the reign of the iconoclastic Kamehameha II, Hawaiian culture was dominated by a rigid set of kapu, or taboos, sacred laws forbidding things like men and women eating together.
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In the past,(Sentence dictionary) the region had been protected by its forbidding geography and the extremities of its climate.
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To distill and simplify some complicated theological and financial concepts, the basis of Islamic finance is Shariah's forbidding of "riba," which can be variously translated as usury or interest.
In The Days
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Doubtless this was partly attributable to the scarcity of food which prevailed; but that the authorities traced it also to some secret ceremonials is evident from the law which was immediately passed forbidding the Indians to wear the _piochtli_, or scalp-lock, a portion of the hair preserved from birth as part of the genethliac rituals, [32-§] and the especial enactments against the _octli_.
Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History
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Parliament has passed an act forbidding the slaughter of animals for pleasure.
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He had a rather forbidding, saturnine manner.
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Parliament has passed an Act forbidding the killing of rare animals.
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Same peremptory announcements forbidding any movement around the cabin during meal times were made at regular intervals.
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The old mahogany chairs upholstered in hair cloth were shinily forbidding.
Chicken Little Jane
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And, most of all… I hated the circumstances for forbidding it.
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Often, the main obstacle between them is the prospect of dealing with forbidding galleries charging forbidding commission fees.
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Stop and think about that the next time you see one of those forbidding Post No Bills warnings stenciled on fences and construction sites or on any other vacant canvas in New York that isnt already covered by posters.
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Laws forbidding trade with any country other than Spain stifled chances for industrial development.
Mexico's colonial government, successful failure
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The cattle dog's harsh tousled coat (except on the head where it is shorter and flat), its moustache and little beard all give it a forbidding appearance.
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Forbidding terrain made conventional land supply impossible, requiring the United States to develop capabilities to airdrop supplies.
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They are confined to the unwooded shores of the Arctic Sea, rarely going far into the country, and having their proper home on the most desolate, cold, and forbidding part of the continent.
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Women in Saudi Arabia should give their breast milk to male colleagues and acquaintances in order to avoid breaking strict Islamic law forbidding mixing betwee
Breast-Feed Adult Men, Saudi Clerics Tell Women
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She invents a charge of child abuse and gets a restraining order forbidding him from seeing the child.
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He had often looked with wonder at the rock, and miauled bitterly and resentfully as man does in the face of a forbidding Providence.
Cat.
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Concealed by a forbidding row of security guards, the pop-star left the building.
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But if you dress up the idea in a forbidding vocabulary, full of neologisms and recondite references to philosophy, then you may have a prescription for academic stardom.
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Three miles offshore the mountains heave into view, stark and forbidding, reaching up to forested heights.
IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
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It is still a world of forbidden desires, but an Enlightenment world in which it is acknowledged that the higher authorities, the ones doing the forbidding, are human and not divine in origin.
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THE SNOWCAPPED VOLCANIC PEAK the Andean cordillera looms majestic and forbidding above the Peruvian town of Cabanaconde, and for 500 years its summit has been wreathed in pellucid ice as high as a man's thigh.
Children Of The Ice
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Meredith glanced up uncertainly at the four-storey buildings soaring up forbiddingly on either side of the alley where they were walking.
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Classic gothic tale complete with governess heroine, malevolent atmosphere, and forbidding mansion.
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He had ridged black hair and a rather forbidding, saturnine manner, but his smile was warm.
THE WHITE DOVE
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The bailout bill limits the amount of damages the victims can collect, by forbidding any award of punitive damages against the airlines.
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Isolated and ruined, it sits on 1000 acres of windswept, forbidding land, and is the quintessential haunted house.
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Given the fact that “wearing the colors” is considered to be deliberate disrespect by members of another gang, I think the school was justified in forbidding the wearing of the US flag, in this case.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Support for Restricting the Speech of Students Who Wear American Flags to School on Cinco de Mayo
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He worked assiduously to confine the judges to their legal duties, and tried to limit their contacts with Versailles by forbidding them from sitting on the councils of the princes.
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Pope John of Avignon issued a decree condemning the Ars Nova in 1324, forbidding a practice that, according to him, had given rise to an excess of virtuosity; the abuse of the hocket technique had made the sung texts incomprehensible and was also very little suited to calm meditation.
Archive 2009-04-01
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He was a tall, austere, forbidding figure.
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But the possibility of cooperation via coali - tions, agreements, and the like produces nonsymmetric arrangements so that the intent of the law-maker can - not be maintained without forbidding coalitions which then would run afoul of the principle of freedom.
GAME THEORY
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When the city of our solemnities is thus made a quiet habitation at any time, and we are fed from day to day with the bread of life, no man forbidding us, we must give thanks to God for it and prepare for changes, still longing for that holy mountain in which there shall never be any pricking brier nor grieving thorn.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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The site previously consisted of a number of unimaginative prison buildings, overlooked by the parapets of the Fort on the top of the hill, a forbidding looking building itself.
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Paris, looking like a patch of star-sprent sky that had fallen upon the black earth, seemed to him to wear a forbidding aspect, as though angry at his return.
The Fat and the Thin
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Coastal settlements were established, but the interior was forbidding.
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The apparent orthodoxy of forbidding all orthodoxies is a philosophical puzzle in liberalism since John Locke.
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Parliament has passed an act forbidding the slaughter of animals for pleasure.
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She really was very attractive, but something about her now struck him as rather forbidding.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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In the past, the region had been protected by its forbidding geography and the extremities of its climate.
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China, which constitutes the fourth border, does an equally forbidding job of keeping outsiders at bay.
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Here was land where nothing grew, not even a blade of grass, and no birds or any other sign of life interrupted the forbidding vistas.
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The original Karateka was what might loosely be termed a brawler, and saw you travelling deep into the heart of a forbidding oriental fortress to rescue a captured princess.
Archive 2008-07-01
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She obtained a restraining order forbidding her partner from seeing their two children.
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Its southern slopes are stern and forbidding through depth of snow and violence of glacial stream, and are devoid of game; its slopes toward the interior of the country are mild and amene, with light snowfall and game in abundance.
The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America
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Jefferson was so offended by the excesses of the British Crown he did everything possible to prevent pomp and circumstance from infecting the new American republic, even forbidding seating arrangements at official functions for fear it had the air of regality.
For a day at least, Washington will not be in recession
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Centuries ago a colony ship crashed on the cold, forbidding world of Jotunheim.
March 5th, 2008
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Seventy-five miles of this forbidding structure have already been built, with a total projected length of more than 200 miles.
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Three miles offshore the mountains heave into view, stark and forbidding, reaching up to forested heights.
IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
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I wholly empathize with the need to accept those trips: not everyone is fortunate enough to serve publications that pay for their trips and that also make nonacceptance of them easy by forbidding them entirely.
Advertorial, Leslie Sbrocco, 7-11, chocolate milk, freer trade - sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog
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The canyons between the peaks seemed bottomless and forbidding, and the mountain range stretched on for unseen miles in both directions.
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If you live in, oh, say, Wisconsin, there are laws forbidding you from using a centerfire rifle for deer or etc. below a certain latitude (a certain east west highway, in fact).
And Now, A Really Manly Handgun
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BARCELONA: Organizers say many thousands of people are gathering in northeastern Barcelona to demand greater regional autonomy and protest a recent court ruling forbidding this prosperous region from calling itself a nation.
The Times of India
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The Peledrim Forest itself looked sinister and forbidding, and the trees cast long shadows in the dim light of the setting sun.
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At the end of the year 1774 the Great Council promulgated a law forbidding all games of chance, the first effect of which was to close the 'ridotto'.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
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`You are aware of the orders forbidding fraternization with the German population?
IN LOVE AND WAR
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The images show rock climbers relying on heavy ropes and sheer guts to take on the forbidding peaks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Clearly, the state's role in promoting, allowing, or forbidding social change is crucial.
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In the full blaze, feather-foliaged trees crowned with gigantic red blossoms offered as a sacrifice fruit which blushed before the insistent gaze of the sun; while beneath this gay canopy vine and creeper and pliant shrub wove an undergarment which screened the moist earth and created a realm of subdued light in which all the flowers were pale of tint and tremulously fragile, though of almost forbidding magnitude of form.
Tropic Days
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The police authorities of New York appear now to be thoroughly in earnest in carrying out the municipal enactments forbidding expectoration in public places.
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He had been cadged for drinks before by the old cannibal, and the sternest tambo Grief and McTavish had laid down was the one forbidding alcohol to the natives of New Gibbon.
THE JOKERS OF NEW GIBBON
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Four rangers from the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Authority enforce laws forbidding damage to the reefs.
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Also, Katherine issued a regulation forbidding frillings longer than two inches and high coiffeurs decorated with feathers.
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First it was the clerics forbidding child-lessness, now it's the economists.
Response: We don't need to de-industrialise to meet our emissions targets
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Both the Utes and early Spanish explorers avoided the forbidding gorge; for many years it remained an impenetrable mystery.
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The Department building reared tall and forbidding against a bright, cloudless sky.
COMPULSION
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But my preferred way of thinking about such things would at least be open to the possibility that there might be a sufficiently compelling state interest in forbidding it.
The Volokh Conspiracy » California High School Sends Kids Home for Wearing American Flag on Cinco de Mayo
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‘It looks a bit severe,’ he says, waggling his camera at her grey and forbidding Jasper Conran coat-dress.
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Through this ring, no man forbidding him, Mr. Hosken had run a frape, on which he kept his blue boat, now leased to
Shining Ferry
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She turned quickly, in a swirl of black robes, and hurried along the forbidding corridors back to a table laid for two.
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An order forbidding members of a tribe to head-hunt was disobeyed.
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When our children bring home their textbooks from the new school with the forbidding heavy volumes of mathematics and physics, those books are simply the attempt of men to describe the world Christ made and sustains.
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But despite her forbidding appearance, she is immensely vulnerable, struggling with personal demons.
Times, Sunday Times
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Next they will issue an order for same but accompany it with a gag order forbidding the company hosting the data to ever say anything about it.
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I think she has a masculine air, and is a little forbidding at first: but when I saw her behaviour to two agreeable gentlewomen, her husband's nieces, whom, for that reason, she calls doubly hers, and heard their praises of her, I could imputer her very bulk to good humour; since we seldom see your sour peevish people plump.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3
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Designed as a meditation on the Passionstory, it's an austere, rather forbidding piece: the style of the motets (which may be performed as aseparate sequence) harksback to Renaissance polyphony without a greatdeal of contrast or dynamic variety, while the sonatas arefar moredramatic: sometimes full ofdense, packed dissonances; at othersfragile and provisional.
Rihm: Vigilia
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What chance, then, of the judges now forbidding parliament to contravene our home-grown constitutional principle of the rule of law?
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The title of the film refers to a clause in global law forbidding incestuous sexual relations.
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A sense of loss and political failure is hardening in the people's minds into something more forbidding than mere regret.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr. Blake had never been in such a God-forsaken country or community before, but there was something in the utter isolation, the far-stretching waste of shimmering sand, the desolate mountain ranges sharply outlined, hostile and forbidding, the springless, streamless, verdureless plains of this stricken land, that harmonized with the somewhat savage and cynical humor in which he had sought service in the most intolerable clime then open to the troops of Uncle Sam.
A Wounded Name
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sumptuary laws forbidding gambling
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Once the forbidding territory of the warlike Mackenzie clan, the estate land was acquired in the 19th century by the Earl of Zetland.
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Later came laws limiting working hours, forbidding child labour and other abuses, to curb the widespread social havoc.
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Doubtless this was partly attributable to the scarcity of food which prevailed; but that the authorities traced it also to some secret ceremonials is evident from the law which was immediately passed forbidding the Indians to wear the _piochtli_, or scalp-lock, a portion of the hair preserved from birth as part of the genethliac rituals, [32-§] and the especial enactments against the _octli_.
Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History
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While the balmy lowlands along the southwest border seldom experienced any snow, the frigid peaks and plateaus to the northeast bore a forbidding climate all year round.
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The trendy interior is quite chilly looking and a little forbidding, but the stylists are the absolute opposite - warm and relaxed.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was as cold and forbidding as his ancestral home, Glamis Castle, a reckless gambler and philanderer permanently in debt; but her soubriquet "the Unhappy Countess" has nothing to do with Lyon.
Marriages: the good, the bad and the ugly
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The cattle dog's harsh tousled coat (except on the head where it is shorter and flat), its moustache and little beard all give it a forbidding appearance.
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a forbidding scowl
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He had ridged black hair and a rather forbidding, saturnine manner, but his smile was warm.
THE WHITE DOVE
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This time he sang for his tree to grow thick branches and leaves to shelter him in this forbidding place.
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A rock face, so forbidding from a distance, shows fracture lines from close up: nothing is forever, everything changes.
Visiting Galsan Tschinag in his Yurt Katharina Rout
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But what most riveted my attention was an indistinct animate _something_ enveloped in a red flag, rolled up in a heap on the frouziest and most forbidding old sofa it had ever been my lot to behold.
A Girl Among the Anarchists
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There is a forbiddingly cruel woman on the one hand and an innocently sweet girl accomplished in the art of good housekeeping on the other.
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Their pool is forbidding, as the event has eliminated some of the weaker undercard teams.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once the appellate judge has ascertained that the appellant has legitimately appealed, and that the appeal is not one of those that have only a devolutive effect, he has the right to send to the judge appellee letters called inhibitory, forbidding him to take further action in the case.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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The suppression of detail causes the stepped facade of the building to read like forbidding ridges or dangerous protective fins.
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To be sure, Pentheus hubristic decrees forbidding the Bacchic rites to take place in his city are transgressions of the natural order, rupturae on a higher level.
Archive 2009-06-01
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But I knew nothing then of getting people to sign a piece of paper forbidding them to speak to anyone else.
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Classic gothic tale complete with governess heroine, malevolent atmosphere, and forbidding mansion.
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Concealed by a forbidding row of security guards, the pop-star left the building.
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Given the common misuse of it, forbidding intinction when there is a high risk of infection is actually a legitimate course of action.
The Diocese of Niagara on spreading infectious disease « Anglican Samizdat
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Madame Roux made quite a pretty picture with her delicate nose firmly in the air, her eminently kissable lips primmed into a forbidding line, and her big blue eyes taking care to look at everything but him.
Shameless
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A gentleman, he's serious, polite, professional, even forbidding at first, emitting an air of patient forbearance.
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Because they traffic in exaggeration, all farces are a bit disorienting - not as forbidding as a foreign language, more like a different dialect.
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She is an ex-con who served nine months in the forbidding maximum security prison in Lexington, Kentucky.
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As I approached the forbidding edifice that is Tony Conigliaro Consolidated Elementary School, my heart sank from its perch just above the ruffled v-neck of my blouse to a point slightly below my spleen, which is a vascular, ductless organ whose principal functions are the storage of blood and production of lymphocytes.
The Bodice-Ripper Free School Zone Act
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He had been cadged for drinks before by the old cannibal, and the sternest tambo Grief and McTavish had laid down was the one forbidding alcohol to the natives of New Gibbon.
THE JOKERS OF NEW GIBBON
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His first impression was the airport, which seemed a very forbidding, communist building.
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He spoke in Tibetan, and his delivery was stern and admonitory , like a forbidding, old-fashioned father reprimanding his children.
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The images show rock climbers relying on heavy ropes and sheer guts to take on the forbidding peaks.
Times, Sunday Times
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BARCELONA: More than a million people have gathered in Barcelona to demand greater regional autonomy for Catalonia and protest against a recent court ruling forbidding the prosperous region from calling itself a nation.
The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines
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Cardinal de Noailles, well disposed at bottom towards the Jansenists, but so feeble in character that determination, disgusted him as if it were a personal insult, ended by once more forbidding the nuns the sacraments; the house in the Fields was surpressed, and its title merged in that of
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5
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Guru Gobind Singh issued orders forbidding the Khalsa having any association with those that practiced female infanticide.
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He allows no familiarity from them, forbidding them to address him in the familiar form of ‘you’ in German.
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The Vatican regarded Padre Pio with suspicion during his lifetime, even at times forbidding him from saying mass, but his popularity only grew and his canonization is a major event for Italian Catholics.
CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2002
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The town council passed a law forbidding the distribution of handbills.